The origins of our Aged Pu-erh Chinese tea

Naturally aged for 3 decades, this sophisticated Chinese tea is something special. Produced in the Yunnan province of China from the harvest of tea leaves in 1990, our premium Pu-erh is strongly earthy in nature, with spicy undertones and an exceptionally smooth character that has developed over its three decades of maturation.

Unlike many Pu-erh teas, our luxury 30 Year Aged Pu-erh has not been compressed into a shape but is a loose-leaf tea. Those dried leaves – some deep brown, some forest green, others deep orange – offer mysterious musky aromas with notes of wet woodland, brewing to a deep amber-coloured infusion with mellow, earth-like characters and a cacao-sweet finish.

This tea belongs to the 'Ripened' category of Pu-erh, also known as 'Shu', in which leaves are dampened and piled on top of each other in a process called wet piling, which triggers fermentation. While traditionalists wouldn't dream of adding milk to such a beautiful brew, we say if you feel it enhances the flavour, then go ahead and add a dash!

Ingredients

Aged Chinese Fermented Tea

Tasting notes

This tea offers earthy, wet woodland aroma and mahogany red infusion. A sophisticated cup with dried prune and tobacco notes and creamy vanilla mouthfeel.

Region

Yunnan is a province in the Southwest of China, bordering Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam to the South, and Tibet to the North. The relief is mostly mountainous, with high mountain ranges branching out of Tibet and running all the way to the South East of the province, with elevations between 5,500 meters in the North of the province to 1,500 meters above sea level in the South. North East Yunnan is mostly snow-capped peaks and high plateaus, with powerful rivers running down the slopes; the valleys of the south are more open, with fertile plains and irrigated fields.