Yiwu Rustic Tea
2001-2002 / Yunnan, China/ Old Tree
The tea of the Yiwu tea district (in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan) is rich with distinctly open and expansive tea bouquet and potency. The production of this tea cake is primarily from “yellow flakes”; “yellow flakes” typically are the relatively larger and older tea leafs that the tea farmers select from the raw tea for their own use. The tea infusion is satiny and gracious, sweet and rich, full and satisfying, with a clean and refreshing flavor and a “toothy” viscosity that makes the entire mouth salivate. The tea’s energy is powerful, conveying a cool and refreshing sensation, effusing the fragrant aroma of primordial soil.
