2009 7342H Menghai Purple Mark Ripe Puerh - Traditional HK Storage

The 2009 7342H is special commission halfway ripe puerh made by the Menghai Tea Factory for the Yee On Tea Company. The founder of Yee On was a close friend of the deputy chief of the Yunnan Tea Import and Export Company and as such he had easy access to having specially commissioned tea from the old large tea factories. This is the second iteration of this recipe. The first production was made in 2001 and is long since sold out. After seventeen years of Yee On's traditional Hong Kong storage, the tea steeps dark and exceptionally smooth with notes of ginseng and other medicinal herbs, damp wood and forest, and a bit of spice. This is a super solid tea and an exceptional value for the quality, age, and storage. Important: There is frost on many of these cakes. Please do not order this tea if frost freaks you out. Frost is a normal and positive sign of traditionally stored puerh, made up of caffeine, catechins, and sugars that migrate out of the leaf during the active transformation stage of higher humidity storage. It can easily be confused with mold but it is not mold. Also, because of its extended traditional storage, these cake wrappers are damaged. It is very likely the cake you receive will have a damaged wrapper. A whole cake is approximately 357 grams, though they will vary.