Da Shan Raw Pu-erh Cake Tea 2020

This tea is produced in the Lida Organic Tea Garden in Fengqing, Yunnan. Mr. Zhou and his team have been operating this tea plantation very carefully and are committed to making higher-quality tea. This Da Shan raw pu-erh cake is made in 2020, it taste sweet, full and bold, rich in layers, with fresh nectar fragrance, and a clear rock sugar fragrance in the buttom of cup. This is TeaVivre's first organic pu-erh cake tea. Those who like organic tea must give it a try.

	Cup Method		Chinese Gongfu Method
	Teacup: 12oz / 355ml		Gaiwan: 3.8oz / 110ml
	203℉ / 95℃		203℉ / 95℃
	5g Tea		8g Tea
	Brewing time: 2 - 3 mins		8 steeps: rinse, 10s, 15s, 20s, 25s, 30s, 45s, 60s, 75s
			Rinse time is around 5 seconds

The Lida organic tea gardens sit within the beautiful Mengyou Town in Fengqing County, Lincang City, Yunnan Province. The tea garden covers an area of about 1,500 mu with an average elevation of 2,000 meters. Surrounded by mountains, the environment is quiet and away from the hustle and bustle of the city. It has passed the EU organic certification for more than ten consecutive years, and keeps providing high-quality organic Pu-erh tea for tea lovers all over the world.

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.

This pu-erh tea is produced in Fengqing, located south of Dianxi Longitudinal Valley. Fengqing is a country in the northwest of Lincang, one of the four famous pu-erh production areas (along with Xishuangbanna, Pu’er, and Baoshan), and is one of the original birthplaces of tea in the world. It is also famous for being the hometown of Yunnan black tea. Fengqing has a long history of planting, producing, and drinking tea, and contains a beautiful throng of mountains webbed with rivers.

This pu-erh tea is made from the Fengqing large-leaf subspecies of the Yunnan large-leaf. It propagates sexually and takes the form of an arbour tree, meaning that it can grow to over six meters tall. 1984, the Fengqing large-leaf species was certified by the Chinese government as a national grade. It contains an abundance of tea polyphenols (30.2%) and catechins (13.4%), as well as 2.9% amino acids and 3.2% caffeine.

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-erh in Yunnan province, which was the early trading center for this tea. In this teas early history it was used as a bartering currency in south west China. In south west China the famed Cha Ma Gu Dao - “Tea Horse Road” - was built especially to transport this tea through the Himalayas to other countries and areas in Tibet.