2016 Jinggu Wild Forest Gushu Raw Puer Tea

Name: 2016 Jinggu Wild Forest Gushu Raw Puer Tea

Year: 2016

Producer: El Mercado del Té (the brand I use in my country)

Material: Tea trees ranging from 150-200 years.

Harvest: spring.

Area: Xiao Jinggu, Puer.

Weight: 200 grams

(2016 Jinggu Wild Forest Gushu Raw Puer Tea)

The tea comes in a tong with 5 cakes (a total of 1 kg per tong).

I bought this tea in 2016 and remained in Yunnan until its pressing time, close to the end of that year. Then I sent some to my country to sell there. And the rest remain here in Kunming in the house of a friend until I came back in 2018 and decided to settle down here and start selling tea with my new brand (Yunnan Tea Market). So the wrapping of this tea has the brand name of my country.

The environment from which this tea comes is perfect, an ancient tea garden located deep inside a wild forest. I remembered we walked a couple of hours to reach a high altitude until we got there. The tea leaves used to make this tea come from a single ancient tea garden with trees ranging from 150-200 years old. In addition, there is no tree over picking in the tea trees where these tea leaves come from. For many years, the producer didn’t pluck the tea leaves in these trees. They were growing naturally and unattended. Therefore, the result is high-quality tea.

It has a stronger and perhaps less flowery aroma than the other tea from Jinggu we offer.  

This tea has a moderate astringency and some bitterness in the first infusions, which are balanced by a fast, sweet huigan and Sheng Jin (secretion of saliva at the sides of the tongue). It has a thick, creamy body with that organoleptic sensation of filling the mouth cavity. The taste remains in the mouth and throat for a long time. It remains stable throughout the infusions, slightly flowery and cooling in the mouth, without dropping its quality. As the tea session goes on, the tea gets sweeter and sweeter until the end.

This tea gives you a calm and focused body sensation that is strong but not overpowering.

The tea was sun-dried and stone-pressed using traditional methods.