Bitterleaf Reserve – Hummingbird 2013 Jingmai Raw Puer
Price range: $45.00 through $165.00
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“Purchased as a startup gift from our father/father-in-law, we had this tea in hand before we had a website or even existed as a company. This was admittedly a nervous step into the unknown, but one that ended up being a good choice.
This tea was originally pressed by close family friend and journalist who took part in documenting the ancient tea horse road (茶马古道) very early on. For us, this is the tea that started it all, and represents a sort of point of no return – not that we’ve looked back since.
This tea has held up well over the years, with a strong fragrance in the cup and some camphor notes developing as it enters year 13.
Availability: 1 x 357 cake, 1 x ~400g brick, 7 x 98g (7g coins)
Our Reserve teas consist of our very earliest puer pressings and releases, ranging from a minimum of 10 years up to 20 years in age.
Availability is limited, with only 1 or 2 cakes available in some cases. If you ever lamented letting one of these slip by, then this is your last chance to pick it up (with an extra decade of age on it).
Each of these teas has remained in dry storage conditions in Kunming since day 1. This style of storage yields slower development than more humid regions, however, “dry” is largely used relative to more traditional storage locations (eg: Hong Kong, Guangdong, Malaysia, etc). With humidity in our primary storage ranging from 55-75% (depending on season), it’s not exactly a desert.
For our taste, this storage strikes a good balance between development into a smoother/sweeter tea, safety in terms of mold risks, and retaining the tea’s original character.
Upon receiving these cakes, we recommend letting them adjust after travel and reaching a new environment by “waking them up”. This can be done by storing them in a clay jar (Jianshui clay is often suitable) for 2 weeks or so, and/or introducing stable humidity with the use of a Boveda pack (no more than 72%).
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