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2026 Jingmai Ai Ban Gushu Mao Cha Sheng Puerh

€29,00
€58,00/100g
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Mao Cha (毛茶) — raw, unprocessed tea from the Ai Ban garden on Jingmai Mountain (景迈山), Lancang, Yunnan. Ai Ban sits on the Da Ping Zhang plateau, part of the vast UNESCO-listed Jingmai ancient tea forest, where tea trees grow intermingled with the forest rather than in cleared plantations. This is ancient-garden material, hand-picked in late March 2026; drought that season limited the yield to a single small batch.

This is tea in its most fundamental form: uncompressed, sun-dried, not yet pressed into a cake. The liquor is juicy and powerful, with a strong mouthfeel, plenty of cha qi, and a huigan that builds on the gums and trails sweetness down the throat. Tasters note cool forest, apricot, fresh tree bark, minerality and mint — intense early, then refreshing, cooling and juicy across later steeps. Drink it now for its vitality, or store it to age.

Origin: Ai Ban garden, Da Ping Zhang, Jingmai Mountain, Lancang, Yunnan — Spring (late March) 2026
Cultivar: Jingmai ancient-garden heirloom varieties
Processing: Sun-dried mao cha, uncompressed
Package size: 50g

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Farmer Leaf

Yubai and William are tea producers from Jingmai Mountain (Yunnan), known for clear, energetic raw pu-erh and a very transparent, education-first approach.

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Natural Tea Gardens

Yunnan is widely recognized as the cradle of tea culture, where the earliest tea consumption began over 5,000 years ago. The region is home to ancient tea trees, some over 3,000 years old, thriving in biodiverse forests. Indigenous communities like the Bulang and Dai have cultivated and preserved these tea traditions for centuries, producing teas that reflect the rich terroir and heritage of the land.