2017 Mengku Tea Girl Raw Puer Tea

Name: 2017 Mengku Tea Girl Raw Puer Tea

Year: 2017

Producer: Dian Xi Lin Yun滇西林韻*, (literally Yunnan west forest charm)

* Dian Xi Lin Yun is the brand of a friend. The tea material comes from the family’s tea gardens. They process the tea at their factory.

Material:  This is a blend of small, medium-sized and big tea trees (hun cai) from 2 different regions in Mengku, all tea leaf material comes from a high altitude of more than 2300 meters.

Harvest: spring.

Area: Lincang, Mengku.

Weight: 357 grams (some cakes of this brand weigh more/less than 357g. But we can’t weigh every single one of the cakes otherwise we have to open all tongs).

(2017 Mengku Tea Girl Raw Puer Tea)

Each tong has 7 cakes and is wrapped in bamboo.

This is a very well-balanced tea blend. It has a mild astringency and bitterness but don’t you dare to push it too much :). It has a very pleasant mouthfeel, quite full in the mouth and cooling too. You can expect plenty of salivation and sweetness to return to your mouth. A Hua Mi Xiang (literally nectar fragrance or aroma) taste will stay in your mouth and throat. You’ll feel it warming and comfortable in the body too. This Hua Mi Xiang is one of the traits, according to the producer, of teas in the Mengku mountain range (many Lincang Sheng Pu in fact have this aroma), at least the ones they possess and source from other villages too.
In simple words, I would translate this as having a flowery aroma and producing a sweet tea soup. In some teas, this Hua Mi Xiang taste profile is stronger than in others.

I’d dare to say that the tea leaves pictures speak for themselves as the tea liquor purity/clarity do when it comes to the quality of this tea.
To sum up, the tea remains stable throughout the infusions and won’t drop unexpectedly into something bitter and nasty, surely will provide the tea drinker with an interesting drinking session.