Our affordable flagship for 2023, ‘Parataxis’ is a raw puerh tea, blended from materials across southern Yunnan, China. The dry spring weather during the 2023 spring season in Yunnan means that this tea is noticeably concentrated and uniquely expressive in both its flavour, fragrance, and energy.

In terms of flavour, this tea has a well-balanced character with plenty of sweetness, thick mouthfeel, a solid backbone of pleasant bitterness and astringency, and enduring fragrance from steep-to-steep. Classical raw puerh should leave a slight cooling sensation in the mouth and throat, plenty of huigan (回甘 huí gān) or 'returning sweetness', as well as lingering flavour in the aftertaste - on all of these points, 'Parataxis' delivers. 

This tea is an excellent all-rounder; suited for solid daily drinking and for stashing away to age for the years to come. If you’re wondering how it compares to 2023 ‘Labyrinth’ Raw Puerh, this tea has more intensity in the fragrance and sweetness, and is a little more elegant.

Wrapper artwork by ERODUCTIONS.
Pictures by Pingle Pictures.

2023 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.