Liming Tea King ’04

Name: Wild tea trees in yunnan ’04
Year: 2004
Weight: cca 357 grams

Details:
A Tea king (so that is called on the wrapper) is a real gem as you can feel the Lao Banzhang from sniffing the wet leaves in the teapot, at least I feel I do. A full taste, a taste of full, thick flauvors, more iron meaning also more sweetness, thick condensed sweetness with almost chocolate hint at the background, a very good tea, Bulang mountain stands for Brown mountain so the soil is a different colour as in Yiwu mountain so that the taste is tend to be bitter, thicker at the same time the core of it is thick sweetness.

I feel like in the past years this tea got much fuller taste and also more refined. The age with a right storage is very important, also stocking several tons of tea cakes in a well ventilated room where hardly any empty space left gives good maturation of tea leaves.

Liming Bajiaoting factory’s Tea King used old tea leaves of Lao Banzhang, Nannuo Mountain and other Bulang mountain concealed place (due to the recipe secret). The tea is made in accordance with an ancient traditional ways. The tea leaves used are naturally fermented for three to five years, and then blended. There are 9 various ratios used to blend and the best is chosen. Then pu-erh tea cakes are pressed, dried and pu-erh tea/soup is made. They are compared and the best rated blend chosen and used. The 2004 year used is the date of pressing the tea cakes so the tea leaves itself are much older.

You may read a review of this tea in German here