Yunnan "Assamica Gold Needle" Black Tea 200 Grams liu bao is wet piled

liu bao is wet piled for for several weeks to allow fermentation to take place

and hei cha (fu zhuan or qian liang) and it did wonderfully at extracting the full range of flavors and aromas present in the tea

Stone-Pressed by hand

fragrant with some floral notes… sweet and full in the mouth but with a vegetal bitterness present

Yunnan "Assamica Gold Needle" Black Tea 200 Grams liu bao is wet piledDuring the 2nd half of the 20th century most tea plants planted for black tea cultivation in Yunnan were hybrids of Assamica but not pure Assamica (). Pure Assamica is what's used for Pu erh production and what was used to produce this lovely tea. Picked in early March in and then expertly processed by a small Ning'er area village cooperative this burly black tea features thick stems, with leaves and buds covered with downy hairs. The withering