1990 Menghai Xiao Shu Pu-Erh

This is an archived, shu (ripe) pu’er with the famous ‘Chen Xiang’ – aged fragrance.

Not much is known about its origin, other than that it was brought to Taiwan in the nineties and has matured under very good storage conditions there. This tea is clean, earthy, and sweet but intense, deep and strong, yet it gives you a warm, calm rather soothing body-feeling. Long aftertaste. This cute 100g cake is the perfect opportunity to taste several decades aged tea.

taste profile: intense, deep, clean, earthy, sweet, incense and hints of medicinal herbs

100g, full cake

location Menghai Area, Yunnan, China. Taiwanese storage.
cultivar wild tea trees
harvest 1990
multiple-steeping
water  95°/150ml
tea  5g
time  rinse/20s/40s/60s/80s+
single-steeping
water  95°/450ml
tea  8g
time  rinse, 4m