2012 Yunnan Sourcing "Cha Tou Sheng Yun" Ripe Pu-erh Tea Brick Yi Wu This lovely little tea cake

This lovely little tea cake is composed entirely of Yi Wu area old plantation tea bushes

some bitterness in the beginning to complement it's complex whiskey-like peat bog aroma and taste

Fermentation level is medium

500 grams per basket

2012 Yunnan Sourcing "Cha Tou Sheng Yun" Ripe Pu-erh Tea Brick Yi Wu This lovely little tea cake"Cha Tou Sheng Yun" ( aka Cha Tou Sage Verse) is our Cha Tou (Tea Nugget) ripe pu erh brick and our third production (our 1st production was in 2009 and is sold out.) Cha Tou is a kind of tea nugget that forms naturally from the pressures of compression and heat that occurs during the fermentation process. Typically during fermentation process to make ripe pu erh there is a pile of tea about 1 meter high. It is kept wet to allow the fermentation