This greener, semi-cooked pu-erh comes from jing mai mountain in southern yunnan, where tea is wild-crafted from several-hundred-year-old tea trees. the mature leaves are sun-withered, hand-kneaded, wood-fired, wok-roasted, steamed and then shaped into round cakes by putting the leaves into cloth bags and placing the bags under a stone mold upon which the tea-makers stand, applying their weight in a rotational motion to achieve the desired circular shape of the tea cake. the flavor is bittersweet and brings to mind breathing in the air close to a river nestled in a forest. this tea is intended for several steepings, with the "heart" of the tea’s character usually apparent somewhere around the 3rd or 4th steeping.. Various prices: [3.75, 4.00, (tasting set) 4.75, 7.50, 7.50]
