This tea is the 2024 rendition of our affordable flagship raw puerh tea. A blend of several excellent materials from across Southern Yunnan that we’ve been refining since we started, 'Shanshui' is a no-compromise raw puerh designed for power, sweetness, brewing endurance, and ability to age. 

All of the material here is from trees growing in lush tropical forest, with more age on them than you might expect at this price point. There’s a strong fruity punch, well-balanced bitterness with a silky returning sweetness to follow, and lingering fragrance. This is the kind of raw puerh tea that we reach for almost daily. 

When brewed in a gongfucha (工夫茶 gōngfū chá) context, this tea opens with a verdant and fruity fragrance and yields a pleasant viscosity in the mouth. Successive steeps reveal the backbone of this tea - a crisp astringency followed by a lingering sweetness in the mouth between sips. Each re-steep of this tea draws out greater sweetness, resulting in a pleasant huigan (回甘 huí gān) that'll hang around long after the brewing session is over. 

Overall, 'Shanshui' is an apt representation of the incredible value Yunnan has to offer. As a raw puerh, its balanced and classical character makes it worthy of drinking now (without having to age it for 20 years first) as well as longterm ageing. If you can keep your tongue off it, you'll be rewarded with a more complex and herbaceous rendition of this tea's fragrance and flavour along the lines of leatherwood honey, juniper, and dried aromatics. 

Wrapper artwork by ERODUCTONS.
Pictures by Pingle Pictures.

2024 tea material produced in Yunnan, China.

200g per compressed cake, with 5 cakes per traditionally wrapped bamboo tong. 25g samples are cut or broken from the cakes and sealed into bags.