2025 Yunnan Sourcing "Mengku Gu Shu Bai Cha" White Tea Cake

First-flush Spring 2025 white tea from old-arbor gardens in Nuo Wu and Ba Wai villages (Mengku, Lincang). Picked and hand-processed by two families we’ve worked with for years, then sun-dried and pressed with a medium-plus compression to lock in aroma and set the tea up for graceful aging. In the cup it’s sweet, thick, and highly aromatic, with an unmistakable lift of cha qi.

In Summary

• Region: Mengku, Lincang (Yunnan)

• Harvest: April 2025, first flush

• Process: traditional Yunnan white tea (long wither, sun-dried), pressed cake

• Net weight: 357 grams per cake (7 cakes per bamboo-leaf tong)

• Total production: 100 kg

• Wrapper: illustration by Patrik Benedičič

In short: a family-made, old-arbor white tea from Mengku, thick, sweet, and aromatic now, with the compression and craft to age beautifully.

We've also produced a similar tea from the same villages in previous years:

• 2020 Yunnan Sourcing "Mengku Gu Shu Bai Cha" White Tea Cake
• 2023 Yunnan Sourcing "Mengku Gu Shu Bai Cha" White Tea Cake
• 2024 Yunnan Sourcing "Mengku Gu Shu Bai Cha" White Tea Cake

This tea has been tested in a certified laboratory for 404 pesticides, and is within the EU MRL limits set for those 404 pesticide residues. For a full list of the 404 pesticides we tested for and more information about MRL testing and the EU Food and Safety commission click on this link.