Young Puerh

We travel each year to the tea mountains of Yunnan to press our own Puerh Tea cakes. We stay with the farmers and oversee the picking, processing and pressing of our own-label puerh cakes.

All of our young puerh teas are from ancient trees, growing wild without the use of any chemical pesticides or fertilisers. The tea is handpicked and completely hand processed in the traditional manner.

2005 Gan En Lao Banzhang Puerh Tea

The tea displays a pure, clean flavour, still with the strength of youth, but thick and active in the mouth and throat.
The huigan (sweet and complex aftertaste) is excellent and long lasting.

For those wishing to know the true taste of old tree Lao Banzhang tea, I can highly recommend this tea.

Starting at: £0.40 per gram
2010 EoT - Bangwai

This tea is thick & gloopy with a strong qi and long full aftertaste that coats your mouth.

Starting at: £0.10 per gram
2010 EoT - Banpen 250g

Exceptionally clean processing and fresh, pure taste with a healthy bitterness (ku wei) that transforms quickly into a long huigan.

Starting at: £0.15 per gram
2010 EoT - Bulang 400g

This tea is 100% ancient arbor, from 600-800 year old trees. The strong bitterness changes quickly in the mouth, leaving a very long huigan and a hit powerful youthful qi.

Starting at: £0.16 per gram

Out of stock
2010 EoT - Manmai

The flavour is fresh and pure, with a nice bitterness (ku wei) leading to a long lasting sweet aftertaste in the mouth.

Starting at: £0.10 per gram
2010 EoT Mansai

The leaves have a very slight smokiness. The chaqi however is strong and the taste is thick with many layers of complexity. It has a medium bitterness (ku wei) and long sweet aftertaste towards the back of the mouth and in the throat.

Starting at: £0.12 per gram
2011 EoT Bulang Puerh Tea

The brewed tea is thick in the mouth, perhaps more thick than previous years, with a strong ku wei (healthy bitterness) that this region is famed for. This tea is not for the faint-hearted and can be brewed with roughly half the leaves one would normally use for a young puerh & quick infusion times.

Starting at: £0.18 per gram
2011 EoT Guafengzhai Puerh Tea

2011 Guafengzhai

£36.00

Out of stock
2011 EoT Gushu Shu Puerh

The tea is exceptionally pure. The wodui (fermentation) flavours are just beginning to subside (July 2011) and the characteristics of the tea are becoming more apparent. The flavour is smooth, thick and pure, with a slight edge of bitterness from the blended leaves apparent in the first few infusions. The qi is strong and warming. As the infusions progress, the tea evolves gracefully, becoming even more sweet and pure towards the later infusions.

Starting at: £0.14 per gram
2011 EoT Mannuo Puerh Tea

Picked from 4-500 year old trees growing near Mannuo village, Mengwang district, Xishuangbanna, this tea has been completely hand processed.

The body of the liquid is medium thick to begin with, growing thicker with the first few infusions. It coats the mouth and throat, stimulating saliva. The qi is strong & invigorating for the body and mind.

Starting at: £0.16 per gram

Out of stock
2011 EoT Mansai Puerh Tea

The flavour is thick and pure, with a hint of bitterness transforming into a long sweetness in the mouth. The tea is balanced throughout the mouth and throat, with the strong qi immediately present upon drinking.
I'm happy with this tea this year. As with all old tree puerhs, the price of the raw leaves was a little higher this year, but I feel the trees have benefited from more rain this year (compared to last year's drought) and the leaves are stronger with more qi

Starting at: £0.14 per gram
2011 EoT Nannuo Puerh Tea

This year we selected a different village from previous years and arranged the processing of the fresh leaves ourselves. These leaves come from 4-500 year old trees, growing naturally near Douyizhai, the highest village on Nannuo mountain. The trees were left for 5 years unpicked and were picked last year for the first time. We supervised (and helped with) the picking of the leaves and brought the fresh leaves off the mountain to process by hand.

Starting at: £0.16 per gram