Tea Types
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Microbially fermented tea from Yunnan — the only true 'aged' tea, often pressed into cakes.
Made exclusively from large-leaf Yunnan assamica. Sheng (raw) pu-erh ages naturally for decades; shou (ripe) pu-erh is wet-piled to mature in months. Pu-erh is to tea what whisky is to spirits — investment, terroir, vintage, all of it.
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