Liming Tea King ’04

Name: Liming Tea King ’04/Yúnnán qiáomù yěshēng chá límíng chá wáng
Year: 2004
Weight: cca 357 grams

Details:

pleasant aftertaste (houyun), profound returning sweet aftertaste (huygan), mellow and rich taste, especially the silky sweetness with bitter background is most characteristic for this tea, Bulang mountain like notes, going pure and flawless, its taste polished to perfection all with energy starting with enormous rush spreading through the body continuing through the whole session

Liming Bajiaoting factory’s Tea King used old tea leaves of Lao Banzhang, Nannuo Mountain and other Bulang mountain concealed place (due to the recipe secret). The tea is made in accordance with an ancient traditional ways. The tea leaves used are naturally fermented for three to five years, and then blended. There are 9 various ratios used to blend. Then pu-erh tea cakes are pressed, dried and pu-erh tea/soup is made. They are compared and the best rated blend chosen and used. The 2004 year used is the date of pressing the tea cakes so the tea leaves itself are much older.

You may read a review of this tea in German here