Teas for Boiling

Introduction:
This Ripe Puer Tea is meticulously selected from the autumn harvest of 2020. Plucked from high-altitude tea gardens in Mengku Town, Lincang City, Yunnan Province, at elevations of over 1200 meters, this tea is made from high-quality one-bud-three-leaf material. After three years of aging, it exudes a rich, aged aroma with notes of wood, earth, and smokiness. Its balanced, mellow flavor leaves a lingering sweetness on the palate, accompanied by subtle fruity and floral undertones.

Reasons to Recommend:

• Special Processing Technique: The "wet piling" (wo dui) process is a crucial fermentation step in crafting ripe Puer tea. It involves piling sun-dried tea leaves to a certain height, sprinkling them with water, and covering them with burlap to ferment under warm and humid conditions for about 24 hours. Once the leaves reach the desired level of transformation, they are spread out to dry.
• Three Years of Aging: The aging of Puer tea is a natural process of oxidation and microbial fermentation. During this time, polyphenols, amino acids, and other chemical compounds in the tea gradually transform, developing new aromas and flavors. Ripe Puer tea further develops complex aromas and a smoother texture through aging.
• High-Mountain Tea Gardens: Grown in high-altitude tea gardens at around 1200 meters, this tea thrives in an environment where lush vegetation, organic-rich soil, and extreme daily temperature fluctuations enhance the accumulation of flavorful compounds in the leaves.

Oxidation Level: Fully fermented
Roasting Level: None
Processing Time: Spring 2020
Best Before Date: Suitable for long-term storage
Tea Variety: Yunnan Big Leaf

2014 Aged Shou Mei White Tea is a traditional Fuding white tea that has been naturally aged for over 10 years, allowing time to transform its flavor and character. Made from Fuding Da Bai and Da Hao tea cultivars and crafted through traditional sun-drying methods, this tea develops a deeper aroma, smoother texture, and richer sweetness through years of natural aging.

Compared with fresh white teas that highlight floral freshness and brightness, aged Shou Mei offers a warmer and more mature expression of white tea. Its gentle aged aroma reveals notes of dried herbs, aged wood, and sweet hay, while the tea liquor becomes soft, silky, and mellow with a long-lasting sweet finish.

Pressed into convenient 5g tea cakes, each serving is easy to brew without measuring. Whether enjoyed during a quiet afternoon, after a meal, or as a daily calming ritual, this aged white tea offers a comforting and refined tea experience.

This 2018 Liubao Dark Tea comes from Liubao Town, Guangxi, one of the most renowned origins of traditional Chinese dark tea. Made from high-quality one-bud-three-leaf material and crafted through classic Liubao tea techniques, it has been naturally aged for years, allowing the tea to gradually develop a deeper and smoother character.

Through years of transformation, the tea has evolved from its original freshness into a more mature expression. Its aroma reveals earthy notes of aged wood, forest floor, and dried herbs, with a subtle sweetness developed through natural aging. The tea liquor is rich yet gentle, offering a smooth texture, mellow fermented depth, and a refreshing cooling sensation that lingers after each sip.

Liubao tea is one of China’s traditional dark teas with a history of hundreds of years. Its unique character comes from the combination of regional terroir, traditional craftsmanship, and time. This 2018 aged Liubao presents the warmth, depth, and refined smoothness that define a well-matured dark tea.

“Lao Cha Po” specifically refers to old leaves (not tender buds) harvested one week before and after Shuangjiang (one of China’s 24 solar terms, around October 23, marking the start of colder weather). These are mostly coarse leaves from the current year or 2–3-year-old growth. “Cha Po” is the Liubao people’s respectful name for old leaves. In the past, farmers sold tender buds as high-quality tea, while coarse old leaves were kept as everyday tea. The name reflects the farmers’ wisdom of “making full use of what you have.”

Around Shuangjiang, large temperature differences and reduced rainfall make the old leaves thicker and richer in sugars and nutrients, giving the tea a natural cane sugar sweetness. Tea harvested at this time has less astringency and a smoother, naturally sweet taste.

This Lao Cha Po tea was brewed at the tea bar during the 15th Northwest Tea Festival and loved by everyone, receiving high praise.

This tea is made using the traditional Liubao “picking and cleaning old leaves” method: fresh leaves are briefly blanched in hot water, then sun-dried or air-dried. Blanching reduces bitterness, while the drying process, similar to white tea, preserves most of the tea’s natural compounds.

This batch of Lao Cha Po comes from wild, aged tea trees in Shizhai Town, Wuzhou City, with tree ages of 30–50 years, making the raw material rare. Because it uses old trees, even with only 20 years of aging, the tea exhibits flavor comparable to 30+ years aged tea. The tea has a distinct medicinal aroma and carries the forest-like character unique to old trees, offering a rich and unique flavor.