Steep time
3–5 min
Recommended
Steeps
5
Recommended
Water temp
98°C
Recommended
Leaf ratio
—
Oxidation
—
Caffeine
Medium
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Best pick • solid dark choice from Unknown origin
Tip: start at ~95°C, then adjust down 3–5°C if it turns sharp.
Final year CNNP production. Old plantation tea from spring 2005 harvest was pressed into these potent tea cakes and dry aged in Kunming for 14 years! The tea itself brews up an aromatic bouquet of flowers, tobacco and camphor. Strong taste with pungent cha qi and very distinctive Nan Nuo taste and feeling. 357 grams per cake (7 cakes per bamboo leaf tong)