Bing Dao Ancient Tree Dragon Ball Raw Pu-erh Tea

This Bing Dao Ancient Tree Dragon Ball is made from ancient tea trees aged between 80 to 150 years old in the Bing Dao village, shaped into approximately 8g pearls for easy carrying and brewing. Placing the dry tea in a warm Gaiwan and gently shaking it, you can smell its rich sweetness and subtle wild charm. Once brewed, the tea liquid is rich in flavor, with a thick, sticky mouthfeel, and carries the unique rock candy sweetness characteristic of Bing Dao pu'erh. The bitterness of is low, and it transforms quickly, with a strong and lasting sweet aftertaste that leaves a fragrant residue on the lips and teeth.

	Cup Method		Chinese Gongfu Method
	Teacup: 12oz / 355ml		Gaiwan: 3.8oz / 110ml
	203℉ / 95℃		203℉ / 95℃
	1/2 tea ball		1 tea ball
	Brewing time: 5 - 8 mins		11 steeps: rinse, 15s, 20s, 25s, 30s, 35s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 80s, 100s, 120s

This Bing Dao Pu-erh tea was plucked in the spring of 2020, relatively new, but the taste is not monotonous. It has the unique Bing Dao tea character, rock sugar taste and nectar aroma. The day leaf has rich sweet and fruity fragrance, along with some wild aroma. The liquor is soft, mellow and smooth, almost no astringency. It tastes soft, sweet and refreshing with sweet aftertaste, moreover, after several infusions, the mouth and throat will have some cooling sensation, with long lasting tea aroma. Look forward to its natural transformation.

A born-and-bred Yunnan farmer, Mr. Zhou has been avidly contributing to the tea business for more than 20 years. A short chat with him made his passion for using traditional tea crafting processes apparent.

He values the essential quality inside the tea leaves, and says that his experience comes from spending most of his time in the tea gardens along the mountains.

Mr. Zhou is passionate about bringing out that internal quality of the tea to share with tea lovers around the world - and also claims that the best environment for growing the perfect tea is in Fengqing.

At the 14th Chinese Tea Industry Economic Annual Conference in 2021, Mr. Zhou won the honorary title of "National Tea Craftsman -- Tea Master".

Bing Dao Village, belonging to the town of Mengku, is 25 kilometers away from the town of Mengku and 45 kilometers away from the city. It has an area of 2.5 square kilometers, an altitude of 1,500 to 2,500 meters, and an average annual temperature of 20℃. Bing Dao Village, a highest altitude Dai People village in Mengku area and a famous tea-producing village in Lincang City, is famous for producing Bing Dao large-leaf tea.

Bing Dao Pu-erh tea is made from the new buds and leaves of Yunnan ancient tea trees in Bing Dao Village. Bing Dao ancient tea trees belong to arbor type, large leaves, and early-sprouting variety. It is the first national-level fine variety recognized by our country in 1984. Under natural conditions the tea trees can reach a height of 4 to 30 meters, which have large leaves, oval or long ellipse shapes, green and dark green color, shiny, soft, thick leaves with obvious white hairs. The spring tea plucked with one bud and two leaves contains amino acids (1.7%), tea polyphenols (33.8%), caffeine (4.1%), and catechins (18.2%), therefore, it has strong Chaqi, thick and sweet, which is a superior variety to produce pu-erh tea.

Pu-erh tea is one of the oldest types of tea in China, with a history stretching back over 1,700 years to the Eastern Han Dynasty, when the tea was called Jing Cha. Pu-erh is named after the town of Pu’er in Yunnan province, which was the original trading center of this tea. In its early history, this tea was actually used as bartering currency in southwest China, where the famed Cha Ma Gu Dao, “Tea Horse Road”, was built for the sole purpose of transporting it through the Himalayas to other countries and areas in Tibet.