2024 Yunnan Sourcing "Shai" Man Gang Village Black Tea Cake

A lovely old arbor (古树) black tea cake made from Autumn 2024 tea harvested from 80-300 year old tea trees in Man Gang village (Bang Dong, Lincang). "Shai" refers to the processing style of this tea, the Chinese character being "晒", which is featured on the cake wrapper. "Shai Qing 晒青“ means processing with sun-drying, resulting in a tea referred to as "Shai Hong 晒红" (Sun-Dried Black Tea). This is a typical processing style for Yunnan Large-Leaf Assamica, allowing for graceful and nuanced aging possibilities. We have been working closely with a family in Man Gang for several years now and have asked them to help us pick and process a black tea from their old arbor family tea garden! The result is a lightly processed and sun-dried black tea that is delicious to drink, sweet and thick, aromatic, and bubbling with cha qi! This lovely tea was pressed into a 250 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: 250 grams per cake (7 cakes per bamboo leaf tong) Harvest time: October 2024 Harvest Area: Man Gang village, Bang Dong county, Lincang Prefecture Total Production amount: 100 kilograms Wrapper Design by Zhao Li Hong Also available is a shade-dried white tea: 2024 Yunnan Sourcing "Liang" Man Gang Village White Tea Cake And a traditional "baked" black tea 2024 Yunnan Sourcing "Kao" Man Gang Village Black Tea Cake We also produced this 2022 series of tea cakes from Man Gang village: 2022 Yunnan Sourcing "Man Gang Tea Flowers" White Tea Cake 2022 Yunnan Sourcing "Man Gang Gu Shu Hong" Black Tea Cake 2022 Yunnan Sourcing "Man Gang Gu Shu Bai Cha" White Tea Cake 2022 Yunnan Sourcing "Man Gang Gu Shu" Black Tea and White Tea Cake This tea has been tested in a certified laboratory for 404 pesticides, and is within the EU MRL limits set for those 404 pesticide residues. For a full list of the 404 pesticides we tested for and more information about MRL testing and the EU Food and Safety commission click on this link .