In a similar vein to last year's ‘Macroscope’ Raw Puerh, this tea is a distillation of the 2024 spring season in Yunnan. Pure old-tree material from across our favourite pockets of forest blended into a weaponised disc of raw puerh. Yet another year with zero rain means old-trees had to dig for moisture with their deep taproots, resulting in an intensified flavour, fragrance, and deep texture in the leaves. 

When brewed, this tea offers a luxurious viscosity akin to glistening oil, with a very elegant bittersweet initial kick that relaxes into smooth, lingering fragrance that will stick in your mouth and throat for hours afterwards. This is a tea that's very dynamic from steep-to-steep, if you don’t find yourself pleasantly drifting off in a fugue after the first few. An engaging, potent raw puerh, and our favourite kind to make; an exercise in purely selfish drinking pleasure. 

Open that third eye and drink this tea over the years to come as it ages gracefully.

Wrapper artwork by Jon Marshall.
Pictures by Pingle Pictures.

2024 tea material produced in Yunnan, China.

200g per compressed cake, with 5 cakes per traditionally wrapped bamboo tong. 25g samples are cut or broken from the cakes and sealed into bags.