270 Tong qing hao ’06

Name: Yì wǔ tóngqìng hào chá zhuāng jiàn zhuāng 270 nián jìniàn chá
Year: 2006
Weight: only samples

Details:
this tea needs a quiet moment and a full attention as I learned myself, this way, with longer steeps you get a sweet, very characteristic Yiwu old tea tree and well aged puerh tea, it is also hard to overbrew (if the leaves are not overdosed), the tea soups lacks almost all bitter notes and generally bitterness, compared to the older version of it, the 269 one, this one seems to get less humidity so that more of its original notes, scents and taste remains, a definitely a puerh tea worth of a try

A cake made traditionally according the six do’s and six don’t do’s. They are mainly focused on healthy tea leaves without stalks, yellow leaves and also choosing the people who will pick the leaves, choosing the right time to pick the tea leaves and choose the right natural unpolluted enviroment.

They say Tongqing Hao is one of the first private bussiness producing pu-erh tea in Yiwu, was established in 1736, in various times of the previous century closed down and reopened again. This cake is a commemorative of 269 anniversary in 2005 following up 270 cake in the next year.

You may read a review of this tea in German here.