Ai Lao Wild Black 哀牢红 - 2024

This black tea comes from wild trees that grow in a protected forest near Ai Lao Shan. This tea has a clean taste with notes of berries. It's amazing to see what a fragrance and flavour this tea can produce without any flavouring.

It was a bit tricky to take a good picture of the cake. It's really that dark.

This tea has been pressed into 100g cakes.

Trees

Wild tea trees growing in a protected forest

Origin

Ai Lao Shan, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China

Harvest

Spring 2023

Ingredients

Camellia Sinensis Assamica

Brewing

For all our Puerh teas we recommend Gong Fu style brewing using 5-8g of tea on 100ml water. Rinse the tea briefly and then do repeating steeps (up to 6-12) of 10-20 seconds.