The 1970s Hung Thai Chang is an old and rare tea. It is a border tea that is believed to consist of wild tea leaves harvested from the Southern Yunnan forest that overlapped across the remote borders running along northern Thailand, Laos PDR and Vietnam. At 40 years of age the tea is well matured and need to be carefully wrapped to preserve its essence. Brewing this tea presents a thick and heavy dark character accompanied by a depth that can only develop from many decades of aging. The rich and dark brew offers a strong presence of age with notes of traditional Chinese medicine, talcum powder, old parchment, mature wood, minerals married in a background of soft earthiness. Drinking this kind of old tea is warm and very soothing, delivering a sense of calmness and relaxation that eases away tension and stress from the body and mind.
