Big Old Ass Tree 2025 Spring Hekai Raw Puer
Price range: $9.50 through $261.00
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Description
Even though we sometimes have to make room in our lineup for new teas, not a year goes by that we don’t absolutely love this Hekai gushu, and this year is no exception.
Located just a few km away from other notable villages, such as Laobanzhang, Laomane and Banpen, this tea shares some of the same qualities, having a notable kuwei (pleasant bitterness) and deep flavour, but in a more accessible package. Overall, the bitterness is less brash, leaving more room to enjoy the aroma.
As it’s to be expected from higher end puer, the soup texture is thick, rolling and expanding in the mouth. The bitterness quickly dissolves into sweetness, producing a juicy and satisfying huigan (returning sweetness). This is one of those teas we recommend enjoying during a focused session in order to fully appreciate the development of energy and flavour from brew to brew.
This tea comes from some old-ass trees in Manlong village, Hekai. Treatment of the trees in this area are strictly controlled by the local government, meaning no pesticides, over-picking or synthetic fertilizer – there are plenty of wild pigs (adorable “wintermelon pigs”, to be specific) and chickens running around to help with that.
$0.58/gram
Region: Hekai, Xishuangbanna Prefecture
Picking Period: April 1-5, 2025
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Alexandra Verville-Paris –
The aroma is surprisingly floral for a tea that takes you straight back to the farm. So many subtleties to explore—it keeps me away from my book!
// Smell: Farm, farm, farm—dry hay, intensely floral, clean clothes, wet leather, mineral notes, and asparagus cream soup.
// Texture: Coats the underside of the tongue! Thick texture that expands with time, covering the cheeks heavily.
// Taste: Peppery and spicy cream soup, humid hay, herbaceous, peppery rusk toast biscuit, big floral presence, braided straw kitchen mat, and grapefruit emerging later in the session.
// Body sensation: Vanished saliva, sand-like feeling on the tongue and palate, sticky after a few brews, gentle energy, presence, silence, attentiveness, serenity.