Close up of a heavily kneaded tea leaf showing traces of dried sappy residue and micro-activity.

This is a tea drinker's tea. Possessing a charming aged character and vivid flavors.

This well aged puerh melon is estimated to be from the 1980s. The tea comes in a simple bamboo tube consisting of 5 pieces, bare and unad...

This 1997 loose leaf is an intriguing puerh tea. What caught my attention was that this tea represents one of the few very clean dry stored ...

For a long time I drank tea rather indiscriminately without understanding how to optimize the benefits of this wonderful drink to match the ...

These dark tea leaves possess both potency and stamina. A tea session can last upwards of 10 steeps delivering a deep and full bodie...

Under the reign of Chairman Mao Zedong and the Communist Party private ownership of tea factories became illegal. This hefty 1970s Fuzhuan ...

The story of Liu An tea is not well known. For this reason the amazing quality of older Liu An vintages have largely gone unnoticed until...

i) Sailing the seas depends on the helmsman, waging revolution depends on Mao Zedong, ii) 1970s Fu Brick, People’s Unification Tea from th...

The Menghai Tea Factory is the standard bearer for ripe puerh tea. Menghai is one of two factories that pioneered the production of ri...

The 2003 Purple Dayi is one of a series of reproductions from 2001 to 2004 by Menghai Tea Factory to replicate the iconic 1996 Purple Da...

The 2001 Simplified Character Cloud is a special production from the Menghai Tea Factory . It is a tea that appeals to both collectors ...

The region of Nannuo is famous for its old tea trees which range from being hundreds to well over a thousand years old. Many of the f...

The 2005 Gan En Ban Zhang is a tea that does not need much of an introduction to avid puerh enthusiasts. It is a tea with a visib...