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2023 Ban Pen Big Trees Puerh

2023 Ban Pen Big Trees Puerh

  • Hops
  • Geranium
  • Pancake Syrup

This is a reference Puerh of Bulang region, robust soup body with surprisingly sweet flavor profile, and an uplifting body feel. Our processing master Brother Sha ensures the end-to-end harvest management, from tree selection, leaf picking to processing, to meet the highest standard. Superb value for this quality, this tea will mature beautifully.

Region

  • Bulang

Leaf Material

  • Picking time: first flush spring, mid-April 2023
  • Tree Type: Garden-type
  • Tree Age: Big trees (Qiaomu)

* For the Puerh we selected, we are confident for you to taste the full spectrum of its performance at 100 °C/ 212 °F.

Brewing Guide

Gong Fu Style:

  • Leaf ratio: 7g in a 150ml gaiwan / teapot (5g / 100ml)
  • Suggested water temp.: 100 °C / 212 °F
  • 1st steep / addn'l (sec): 7 / 4 (flash steep)
$12.04 USD
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班盆老寨 大树

Think of this one as our love letter to Bulang Mountain, a region many consider to be the Bordeaux of the Puerh world. Making a great tea from this region can be seen as a test for any Puerh producer’s capabilities. Our objective is to showcase how Bulang material can also be amazingly savory-sweet and uplifting, avoiding unpleasant bitterness/astringency, but also retaining all the robust power that the mountain is known for.

To achieve such a purity of flavor -- all the "desired" notes of sharp wildflowers, light honey, and a mild hoppy bitterness overtaken quickly by lasting sweet huigan -- we had Brother Sha (who also processes our Lao Ban Zhang) work his magic for us ensuring only big trees and the strongest medium-sized ones were picked by his team, from a grove we know to be completely clean and free from agrochemicals (which impart many of the "off" flavors). It is the combination of the specifically selected grove, plus stringent picking + processing, that yields a tea which easily competes with "gushu" productions from many other houses.

 

TERROIR 

Situated just a few kilometers away from Lao Banzhang, with very similar terroir, Ban Pen is most famous for being seen as an excellent representation of the broader “Banzhang region” profile. Administrative jurisdiction aside, there is no natural boundary between the tea gardens of Ban Pen Lao Zhai (Ban Pen Old Village) and Lao Banzhang. Hence, flavor profiles are exceedingly close, with Ban Pen tea coming across slightly softer and more rounded than its frequently more intense Banzhang counterpart.

 

TECHNICALS

Growing Region Bulang Mountain
Micro Region / Tea Garden Ban Pen Old Village (班盆老寨)
Picking Time First flush Spring, early April
Tree Grade Big Trees (大树)

 

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