“Fresh” 2025 Spring Simao Organic Maocha

This tea is our way of sharing our favourite part of the tea season with you. Aged tea is great and all, but there’s something about that fresh, just processed maocha. Anyone who’s been fortunate enough to be in Yunnan during the tea season knows what we’re talking about. There’s a crisp fragrance that only new teas have. This is also the time of year we start getting the most inquiries about when new spring teas will be ready, which is always answered with “after the 3Ps” (just came up with that on the spot): Processed, Paid for & Pressed. You could add “rested” on there too, but then it breaks the alliteration. However, this all takes time and usually means that by the time the tea gets to you, that super fresh maocha we love has already become a young sheng cake. For now, we have a limited amount of maocha on offer, picked and processed within the last week (dried on March 15) with the intention of bringing the experience of being in the tea mountains to you. This year’s maocha is a certified organic sheng from Simao (Puer), which offers a nice balance of savoury and sweet, along with a lasting huigan. You can expect to see this tea in pressed form sometime the 2nd half of May, which makes this a great opportunituy to compare the same tea as freshly processed maocha and then again as 2+ month old pressed tea. Each purchase is for 50 grams. $0.13/gram Picking Period: March 15, 2025 Region: Simao, Yunnan