Raw Pu-erh Mini Tuocha

Our mini pu-erh tuo cha are compressed into the unique “bird’s nest” shape of cake, which can be easily dropped into a cup or teapot for quick brewing. Each cake is individually wrapped for convenient storage and transportation. This tea is premium pu-erh, which means its flavor, aroma, and value altogether increase as it ages.

	Cup Method		Chinese Gongfu Method
	Teacup: 12oz / 355ml		Gaiwan: 3.8oz / 110ml
	203℉ / 95℃		203℉ / 95℃
	1 piece Tea		1 piece Tea
	Brewing time: 2 - 5 mins		6 steeps:rinse, 30s, 10s, 10s, 10s, 10s, 10s
			Rinse time is 10 seconds

Daguan Shan Tea Garden is located in Mengyou Township of Fengqing County. There are thousands of mu of ecological tea gardens in this area between the high mountains, above a thousand meters in elevation. The warm, moist weather here results in a perfect environment to produce high-quality tea.

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.

Yunnan large-leaf is a rare variety of tea bush, and one of the kinds best-suited to making pu-erh tea. Yunnan has a unique geographic advantage, with plenty of rainfall and proper temperature for growing large-leaf varieties. The leaves from this variety are abundant in polyphenols, catechins, amino acids, and caffeine.

Pu-erh tea is one of the oldest types of Chinese tea, with a history stretching back over 1,700 years to the Eastern Han Dynasty, when the tea was called Jing Cha. It is named after the town of Pu’er in Yunnan province, which was the earliest trading center for this tea. In its early history pu-erh was used as a bartering currency throughout southwest China, and there the famed Cha Ma Gu Dao - or Tea Horse Road - was built especially to transport this tea through the Himalayas to other countries and areas in Tibet.