Liming 2007 "Early Spring Silver Pekoe (Zao Chun Yin Hao)" Raw Puerh

Year entered inventory: 2022

Prior Storage: clean and dry Kunming, no storage smell

One of the classic Liming blends, that cemented their success in the mid-2000s, winning a Gold award in the 2006 Guangzhou International Tea Expo. This famous recipe is a masterclass in balance of power, complexity and delicacy.

 Despite being unmistakably old-school Bulang in approach, the typical Bulang rich woodiness and soft aniseed pungency has mellowed with age and is perfectly balanced with long-lasting sweetness and a beautiful honeyed aroma in the topnotes. Sucessive steeps unfold layers of soft suede leather, rich oak tannins, dried wildflowers and warmed black honey. The liquor is radiant orange and extremely clean. The small 200g cakes are bud-heavy, from very early spring picking.

This is a beautiful aged sheng that showcases the complexity and old world approach this recipe has to offer, with the benefit of maturation in very favorable and clean storage.