2025 Yunnan Sourcing "Lao Cha Tou" Ripe Pu-erh Tea Brick Lao Cha Tou Guo was born and raised

Guo was born and raised in central Taiwan and his father had a black tea factory there

and unique clay ore which was (accidentally) discovered by the Yixing government in the early 1990s when it opened the "Taodu Road" from Dingshan to Yixing

Late-April Harvest

black brick (hei zhuan)

The taste is distinctive from the non-purple mutated trees growing in the same area (often side by side)

2025 Yunnan Sourcing "Lao Cha Tou" Ripe Pu-erh Tea Brick Lao Cha Tou Guo was born and raisedCha Tou is a kind of tea nugget that forms naturally from the pressures of compression and heat that occurs during the fermentation process. Typically during the fermentation process to make ripe pu erh there is a pile of tea about 1 meter high. It is kept wet to allow the fermentation process and the pile is turned every few days to allow for an even degree of fermentation, moving the tea from the bottom of the pile (where it is hotter and wetter) to