2025 Yunnan Sourcing "Bing Dao Lao Zhai" Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake

Made entirely from first-flush spring 2025 leaves picked in Bing Dao Lao Zhai (the “old village” south of Bingdao Lake, Mengku). Trees range from roughly 100–300 years old and grow at high elevation under clean, cool conditions. Pressed into compact 200 g cakes; 20 kg total. This is our most expensive Lincang production to date, and one of the most captivating.

In Summary

• Name: 2025 Yunnan Sourcing "Bing Dao Lao Zhai" Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake

• Region: Bing Dao Lao Zhai, Mengku, Lincang Prefecture

• Harvest: April 2025, first flush

• Net weight: 200 grams per cake (5 cakes per tong)

• Total production: 20 kg (Just 100 cakes)

• Wrapper: Patrik Benedičič

In short: a refined Bing Dao Lao Zhai sheng, cooling, crystalline, and quietly powerful, with the structure and purity to evolve beautifully over time.

Wrapper is the same as our 2025 Yunnan Sourcing "Mo Lie Shan" Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake, but is differentiated by a hand-stamp in red ink with the characters 冰岛老寨.

Below are the previous releases of this tea under the Yunnan Sourcing Brand

• 2016 Yunnan Sourcing "Bing Dao Lao Zhai" Raw Pu-erh tea cake 
  
• 2016 Yunnan Sourcing "Autumn Bing Dao Lao Zhai" Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake
  
• 2018 Yunnan Sourcing "Bing Dao Lao Zhai" Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake
  
• 2019 Yunnan Sourcing "Bing Dao Lao Zhai" Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake
  
• 2020 Yunnan Sourcing "Bing Dao Lao Zhai" Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake
  
• 2021 Yunnan Sourcing "Bing Dao Lao Zhai" Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake
• 2023 Yunnan Sourcing "Bing Dao Lao Zhai" Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake
• 2024 Yunnan Sourcing "Bing Dao Lao Zhai" Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake

This tea has been tested in a certified laboratory and has passed the MRL limits for 404 pesticide residues as established by the EU Food and Safety commission. For more information about MRL testing and the EU Food and Safety commission click on this link.