This raw Puerh Tea Cake is made entirely of the spring raw material from Guo Gan (Myanmar). The wild tea trees grown among the forest gives the tea with strong Alpine notes and rich substance. The tea has a distinctive character and is known for its long-lasting aroma. In this carefully selected wild puerh mao-chao material which is pressed into this 100g mini Puerh cake, you will obviously feel its wild characteristic.

Although it is a new tea, the tea liquor is already with thickness and smooth. It is a quite potential Raw Puerh tea cake which will get much better performance after certain time of storage. Storing this small puerh cake for another few years, it will develop more complex and soft taste. It is a good worth to be expected. Let’s keep an eye on its changing.

Recommend Brewing Method

Cup Method Chinese Gongfu Method Teacup: 12oz / 355ml Gaiwan: 3.8oz / 110ml 203℉ / 95℃ 203℉ / 95℃ 5g Tea 8g Tea Brewing time: 5 - 8 mins 13 steeps: rinse, 10s, 15s, 20s, 25s, 30s, 35s, 40s, 55s,

70s, 90s, 120s, 150s, 180s Rinse time is around 5 seconds

Tea Garden

The Guogan Myanmar Autonomous Region is one of the world's tea sources. It is rich in natural resources of hundreds year’s age of ancient tea trees of Yunnan large-leaf species and is high-quality raw materials for high-end Pu'er tea. In addition to the advantage of tea tree resources, another absolute core advantage that cannot be surpassed is the pure original ecologic environment here.

The Gong Zhang tea area is the region with the most production of Guogan tea. Because the traffic occlusion in the area that tea tree is completely grown in the original forest, the tea tree is almost in the wild state of unattended and cultivated for more than 80 years. There is no use of any chemical fertilizers and pesticides, thus making it 100% of natural tea raw material origin. Many people have said that they can fell the true nature when drinking GuoGan tea.

Growing in forest, the Tea buds and leaves of Guo Gan ancient tea are bigger and fatter that ancient tea in other tea area.

This puerh cake is made of the raw material one bud with one or two leaves as shown on the photo.

Origin

Guo Gan (also named Kokang), with the full name of “Myanmar Shan Bang Guo Gan Autonomous Region”, is one of the world's tea sources. The production of pu-erh tea is one of the main resources in Guo Gan. The Capital Lao Jie is located in the Shan Bang Plateau between Myanmar and China, adjacent to Yunnan, China.

The Guo Gan is is mostly mountainous and hilly and is mainly composed of three large “dams”, with the most famous one “Masuba”. The terrain of Guo Gan is between 450 – 2400 meters in elevation, with an average of 1216 meters. Guo Gan belongs to typical low-latitude and high-altitude plateau humid monsoon climate zone. It has plenty kinds of plant species and still retains its original ecological environment. In addition, the situation of surrounded by three sides of rivers made it accumulated a large amount of camellia plant in this area. Together with the wild arbor trees in the original growth ecological environment, it has become the most superior ecological material of Pu’er Tea.

There is a famous Bangma Daxue Mountain in Mengku, Lincang, Yunnan. The mountain peaks are covered with snow and clouds all the year round. Ancient tea trees of Yunnan large leaves spread throughout the original forests in the mountain. On the hillside of the northern section of the Bangma Mountain Range, there is an ancient Yi village called "Bing Dao", the proverb "Biandao", which means the place where the bamboo fence is used as the gate. At the other end of this Bangma Daxue Mountain, it has already crossed the border, which is the Guo Gan ancient tea tree area. Guo Gan and Bing Dao are respectively on two sides of the Bangma Daxue Mountain. They have almost the same high-quality soil and ecological environment, so the ancient teas of the two places are as the same fragrant.

Tea Bush

The origin tea tree species in Guo Gan belongs to Subtropical large-leaf species, which is Yunnan large-leaf tea bush species. According to the local historical records, Guo Gan and Mengku, Yunnan belong to the same tea source region. The leaves from this type are abundant in polyphenols, catechins, amino acids, and caffeine.

History

Guo Gan Puerh tea was active from 1897 to 1937, when the black tea made here was only available to the British nobility. After 1937, the trade of Myanmar's Guodan tea was almost stagnant, and the locals switched to other crops. The tea plantation here in Guo Gan has hardly been destroyed by humans in the past hundred years. The ancient tea tree retains a good wild state, which in turn forms the wild characteristics of Guogan tea.

Until the rise of Pu erh tea in recent years, because of the large increase in the price of YunnanPuerh tea, a few tea industries began to introduce Guogan mao-cha raw tea material to make Pu'er tea, and it was recognized well in the market. Thus Guo Gan tea gradually be known to Puerh tea lovers.