Yunnan Palace Ripened Pu-erh Loose Tea 2007

This Palace Ripened Pu-erh Loose Tea is from one of the four famous Puerh tea producing areas - Lincang which locates close to Lancang River and near to the Tropic of Cancer, has a subtropical climate, and is the hometown of Mengku large-leaf tea tree species.

	Cup Method		Chinese Gongfu Method
	Teacup: 12oz / 355ml		Gaiwan: 3.8oz / 110ml
	212℉ / 100℃		212℉ / 100℃
	2.5 Teaspoons / 5g Tea		7g Tea
	Brewing time: 3 - 5 mins		8 steeps: rinse, 10s, 15s, 20s, 25s, 30s, 50s, 80s, 120s

Wu Jia Cun Tea Garden, with elevation of 1780 metres, locates to the north of Mengku. People here mainly grow tea and walnut with the weather of annual average temperature 20℃ and annual precipitation 1750 millimetres. Puerh Tea made from the Mengku large-leaf tea trees here are with remarkable mellow, smooth and sweet aftertaste.

Mengku locates in Shuangjiang County, Lincang City which is one of the four main Pu-erh production areas (Xishuangbanna, Pu’er, Lincang and Baoshan). There’re plenty of mountains including the highest Big Snow Mountain with elevation of 3233 metres in Mengku. The excellent Mengku large-leaf tea tree species is breeding and developing in this area and becoming a famous material to make Puerh tea.

Mengku Large-leaf tea tree is a rare tea variety in the world. It is a kind which is best to make puerh tea. Yunnan has unique advantage in its geographical position, it is rich in rainfall and its proper temperature is good for planting large-leaf tea trees. The tea leaves from this kind of tea varieties growing in this perfect environment are abundant in polyphenols, catechins, amino acids, caffeine content.

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.