Yuan Wang Workshop is a small producer befriended by Wang Yanxin on her lifelong search to find under-represented labels doing more interesting work than the big brands. This single-origin cake highlights the unique, cooling, tingling texture and aftertaste of Bulangshan. Yuan Wang Workshop started with early spring buds from old trees cared for using organic practices. The six plus years of age have allowed this cake to really come into itself with notes of banana cream pie, saffron, tulsi, and white pepper.

CNNP is China's biggest, oldest and most famous big pu'er brand. This clout gives them access to a huge range of pu'er from across Yunnan for blending. This sheng pu'er exemplifies their range, pulling in a balanced and complex flavor profile with floral jasmine notes, juicy citrus, and deep lingering redwood spice.

This cake was pressed at the very height of the pu’er boom by small workshop Song Yu Hao. The special grade leaf and bud blend embodies the optimism and unbridled creativity of the era. Wang Yanxin acquired a small cache of this tea right after the pu’er market collapsed and put them away in her climate-controlled storage for nearly 20 years before deciding that this was the moment to share these glorious cakes with the world. The stunning quality of the leaf material, the craftsmanship and the age of the cakes come together for deep, cooling textural complexity and notes of clove, cedar, white pepper, goji, sticky rice, and marigold - a perfectly balanced profile that embodies one of the classic ideals for old school sheng.