Seven Great Teas

Learn to identify with certainty and appreciate the teas that never see the light outside of exclusive collector circles.

This offer includes:

1) Seven 200 grams cake each of these great 2025 teas:

• TianMenShan Core area 100% Pure Tall trees: Strong powerful TianMenShan similar to last year’s single trees production (called “best TianMenShan I ever had” by many experts)
• Yiwu LonTanQing 100% Pure Ancient Trees: Yiwu guoyoulin (state protected forest) sweetness, charming forest flavours. 2024 edition sold out very quickly.
• Bohetang Laos (also “Laos Bawang” and “Duoyishu Laos” in the video): Just over the Yiwu border, this tea is much better than normal Bohetang as it’s picked only once a year. Full of deep forest strength, like chinese side was when it was “discovered” many years ago.
• Manzhuan Walong 100% Pure Ancient Trees: Intense, thick, and manzhuan-candy sweetness
• Beyond Yiwu Single Big Ancient Tree: Huge single trees, picked sparingly retain their forest power, lovingly soft Qi and sweetness.
• Laos Chawang Single Extra Tall Ancient Tree: Super thick elegant texture, thicker than most Yunnan teas! 2024 edition sold out quickly.
• XiNiuTang Single Big Ancient Tree: Powerful Menghai bitter meets honey sweetness and similar elegance to Lao Ban Zhang.

2) Two impossible-to-find, extremely sought after by those in the known teas (30g jars, I accidentally say “cakes” in the video):

• a 30g (more than 1oz) jar of MiDi Single Big Ancient Tree: extremely elegant tea with dancing sweetnesses, powerful aftertaste and all enveloping Qi from the genuine Qing dynasty imperial tribute garden! (!!)
• a 30g jar of JiuYaMen 100% Pure Ancient Trees: Textbook elegant small leaf (like in Yibang) tea, embodies the reason why small leaf puerh is such a requested tea from most knowledgeable puerh drinkers.

3) + bonus:

• 3 Gaiwan+cup tasting kits for you to be able to try teas at the same time (essential to learn fast)
• Samples of 2024 Yiwu LonTanQing and 2024 Laos Chawang to see the effects even 1 year of aging has

4) And of course the one-on-one classes (either two 1 hour sessions online or a single 2+ hour session in Brighton), can also be writing/audio message if you’re too busy, we’ll make it work with whatever way you prefer.

This is fantastic value: It works out to a substantial discount over buying the single cakes, + you get the free jars of MiDi (price TBD but over $100) and Yibang JiuYaMen (similar pricing), the gaiwan+cup kits, 2024 samples and the classes (priceless) for free too!

Teas will be shipped over July/August (maybe up to September) and 1-on-1 classes can be at any point from July, whenever is most convenient for you.

The 2025 benchmark tea series is built on:

• Sparing no expense: The very best tea we could source regardless of price. The result is tea with amazing price/quality ratio, that makes your heart sing.
• Sparing no effort: We tried hundreds of samples (just of 1st spring pick 100% pure ancient tree leaves!), tens of terroirs to come up with this best-of selection
• Not caring for names or market dynamics: sometimes we’ve found better tea just outside a famous garden (or over the border in Laos and actually found better tea than in Yiwu!), sometimes we’ve picked tea straight from one of the original imperial tribute gardens (it doesn’t get more sought after than this!).

In short we did whatever it takes to make extraordinary puerh happen.

Extraordinary = Puerh like it was meant to be all along, before most areas were overpicked leading it to be weak and without all the usual blending of young and ancient tree puerh, 1st and later spring picks, standard and yesheng varietals and good with lesser terroirs (all of these are standard in 99% of so called “gushu” puerh).

This video goes more in depth about this year’s teas: