First flush of spring 2021 tea leaves picked from established plantation bushes was processed into something akin to Yue Guang Bai (moonlight white) or Shou Mei by a process of frying (kill green) at a temperature of 120-140c for a few minutes, then rolling in a hot wok at a temperature of about 70c, then allowed to wither for an hour or so and then finally dried in a lower temperature wok at about 50c.  Finally the tea is air-dried using fans to slowly “blow-dry” the tea.  During this final phase the tea withers again slightly bringing some slight “red tea” taste to the tea.

The brewed tea is sweet, with thick body and lubricating mouth-feel.  The sweetness is honey-like some slight floral notes.  It brews a deep golden tea soup and slides happily through the mouth and throat bringing a kind of soothing fullness with it.  It can be infused 7 or 8 times gong fu style (maybe more depending on your brewing style and leaf quantity).

This something that will age and develop with the coming years and can be stored like pu-erh alongside other raw cakes.

Spring 2021 harvested tea

Gelanghe Mountain, Menghai County of Xishuangbanna

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Vintage:  Mid-Late February
Production area:  Mangshi County of Dehong (Yunnan)
Pure Bud Pluck
Camellia Dehongensis varietal

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The taste is sweet and thick with malty tones and the tea can be brewed 7 or 8 times before losing its flavor. 

Production period: Spring 2019

100 grams per cake (7 cakes per bamboo leaf tong)

1 leaf and 1 bud pluck

Varietal:  Camellia Taliensis

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Slight cinnamon spice aroma when brewed.  Thick and sweet.  Very lubricating mouth-feel that stays in the mouth after drinking.  

Brewing tip: Use 90c water and keep infusion times short for the first 3 to 4 infusions.  Can be infused 7 or 8 times!

March Harvest!

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Yue Guang Bai 月光白 means “Moonlight White” which is another name that refers to this tea!

The taste is sweet and thick with malty tones and the tea can be brewed 7 or 8 times before losing its flavor. 

Production period:  Middle of March

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Simliar material to Yue Guang Bai, but different processing makes this tea unique.

Early March Harvest

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Late-March to Early April Harvested White Tea

Jasmine Flowers Harvested in June.

Varietal:  Yun Kang #10

Pure Bud Pluck

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April 2019 harvested Gong Mei pluck white tea was aged in loose leaf form for almost 2 years in Fuding before being pressed into this cake in 2021.

This tea has a really unique fruit aroma “Guo Xiang” (果香), and thick long lasting and smooth mouth feel.  Tea soup is a deep orange color and the brewed leaves are light brown in color.  The qi is very balanced and the tea leaves have excellent stamina.  You can feel the relatively high altitude growing conditions when drinking this tea! 

357 Grams per cake

Region:  Guan Yang, Fuding, Fujian.

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This is a fruity and sweet (like sugarcane juice) white tea that will improve wonderfully with age.  Thick and viscous, it will go many steeps!

Cha Nong Hao Brand (lit. Tea Farmer Brand 茶农号) is a small project of Ms. Guo, a Yunnan local tea aficionado.  She’s been involved in the Pu-erh tea world for many years but is finally doing her own small batch pressings of ripe and raw pu-erh teas that she has sourced through her many travels in the tea mountains of Yunnan!

April 2020 Harvest (pressed in December 20th, 2020)

250 Grams per cake (7 cakes per bamboo leaf tong)

The 2018 Pressing is .

The 2019 Pressing is .

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The tea was plucked and processed in late March and early April from tea bushes growing in the Mangshi region of Dehong prefecture (far southwestern Yunnan). 

The tea is processed much like a Fujian White Peony white tea (shade withering and air drying) and is also a 1 leaf to 1 bud ratio pluck. 

The taste is fruity with honey sweetness, with a subtle umami grassiness. The aroma is strong and heady, the mouth-feel is full and thick, with a long-lasting sweetness.

We recommend 90C water for this tea with initially short steeps. If over-steeped (or if the water is too hot) in the early steeps it could become somewhat bitter.

Late March/April Harvest

Region:  Mangshi Town, Dehong Prefecture of Yunnan

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