2020 Yunnan Sourcing "Mengku Gu Shu Bai Cha" White Tea Cake

A lovely old arbor (古树白茶) white tea cake made from first flush of spring 2020 tea harvested from old arbor tea trees in Nuo Wu and Ba Wai villages (Mengku, Lincang). 

We have been working closely with two families (one in Nuo Wu and one in Ba Wai) for several years now and have asked them to help us pick and process a white tea from their old arbor family tea garden!  The result is a lightly processed and sun-dried white tea that is delicious to drink, sweet and thick, aromatic, and bubbling with cha qi!

This lovely tea was pressed into a 357 gram tea cake with a medium+ level of compression to lock in the aroma and flavors of tea, allowing for a gradual aging over time.  You can store like you would a pu-erh cake (and can be stored alongside raw pu-erh or black tea cakes), or if you prefer it to stay the way it is you can seal it up.  Ideally a clay jar or wooden box with some/minimal air flow would be best!

Net Weight:  357 grams per cake (7 cakes per bamboo leaf tong)
Harvest time:  April 2020
Harvest Area:  Nuo Wu and Ba Wai Villages, Mengku County, Lincang Prefecture
Total Production amount:  120 kilograms

Wrapper Illustration by Patrik Benedičič

We've also produced raw pu-erh teas from both Nuo Wu and Ba Wai villages:

2015 Yunnan Sourcing "Autumn Nuo Wu Village" Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake
2016 Yunnan Sourcing "Nuo Wu Village" Raw Pu-erh Tea
2017 Yunnan Sourcing "Nuo Wu Village" Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake
2017 Yunnan Sourcing "Autumn Nuo Wu Village" Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake
2018 Yunnan Sourcing "Autumn Nuo Wu Village" Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake

2015 Yunnan Sourcing "Autumn Ba Wai Village" Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake
2016 Yunnan Sourcing "Ba Wai Village" Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake
2017 Yunnan Sourcing "Autumn Ba Wai Village" Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake

This tea has been tested in a certified laboratory for 191 pesticides, and is within the EU MRL limits set for those 191 pesticide residues. For a full list of the 191 pesticides we tested for and more information about MRL testing and the EU Food and Safety commission click on this link.