It's All About Tea — aged tea

Pu-erh is a unique type of tea. For many, it’s either you like it or you don’t, and there is no in-between. It is a robust tea that has often undergone years of fermentation and has a flavor that is unusual for many.

For some, pu-erh is just not for them, no matter how many top-shelf cakes they have tried. If trying pu-erh for the first time, we always recommend trying a quality sample. Otherwise, you may end up with a ruined pu-erh that will make you never want to experiment with the stuff again.

So how do we determine what constitutes a good pu-erh? (Read more)

Raw (Sheng) and Ripe (Shou) Pu-erh age very differently. Sheng has a long arc of transformation – losing bitterness and gaining complexity over decades. Shou changes most in its first 3–10 years, shedding wet-piling notes and gaining smoothness. And older doesn't always mean better. (Read more)