TSNG082 - Jingmai Dashu Shengcha 2006

Product detailed description

Aged sheng puer from Jingmai Tea Mountain (景迈山). Tea was harvested and compressed in Spring 2006. The tea leaves come from old tea trees (dashu 大树), which were collected across Jingmai tea gardens at the elevation between 1200-2000 m.a.s.l. The cover has a beatiful design depicting women from Bulang and Dai tribes living in Jingmai tea gardens, one of the six ancient tea mountain in Xishuangbanna (guliu dachashan 古六大茶山) and long reference on holy wisdom of life.

The tea was generously provided by Hu Rui, tea collector born in Menga township (勐阿镇) in Menghai county (勐海县). Hu comes from Han tribe (汉族) and her family owns a small tea house in Jinghong city (景洪市) since 2016. As a tea collector, she focuses on various teas across whole Yunnan Province, particularly from Xishuangbanna. During our work trip to Xishuangbanna in Autumn 2025,  we spend a lot of time by comparing various aged teas from less-known tea villages in both Menghai and Mengla.

The tea has a delightful aroma of rare dry wood with soft naftalen undertones. The tea has sour fruit taste with a exotic flower hint. In the teacup, a fragrant imprint of sour fruit, flowers and honey then appears. The tea liquor gradually changes from light yellow-orange shades to darker golden-ochre tones. The colour is transparent and sparkling. The tea body is smooth and complex. It delivers an intense and long-lasting moutfhul feeling with pronounced sweetness for several hours. 

Hu Rui has very interesting Xishuangbanna tea collection ranging from fresh tea harvest to archived teas with the history up to 1980s. Unlike some other places, we really appreciate her honesty and patience with our questions regarding tracability of particular tea materials, contemporary tea trends and other tea-related issues. In addition, we were able to compare different tea storages both within and outside of Yunnan Province, which provides us better insight on aged Xishuangbanna teas. 

We drank this tea for the first time during our Autumn work trip in Xishuangbanna and unlike other aged sheng puers, it has very rich floral aroma (typical for Jingmai teas), while it keeps the common fragrance and soft texture with long sweet aftertaste like regular aged teas. We fell in love into this tea, so we decided to bring only few tea cakes to get more feedback about this phenomenal aged tea. We warmly recommend this tea for all tealovers, who like more floral aged teas, and would like to indulge into pleasant aged shengcha with nearly 20 years history.

NOTE

This tea is currently offered as a pre-sale item at a discounted price with a limited quantity. A detailed taste profile and other information will be updated after our return to Prague at the beginning of December. Orders for this tea will be shipped after 10th December 2025. Thank you for your understanding and looking forward to sharing more teas with you soon. ~