Jing Chang Hao — Quiet Years · 2018 Raw Pu'er (Sheng)

敬昌号 岁月静香 生普洱茶 2018

Raw Pu'er (Sheng) · 2018 · Spring Harvest · Bulang Mountain, Menghai, Xishuangbanna · Xi'an Dry Storage

Bulang Mountain sits near the China-Myanmar border in western Menghai County. It is one of the New Six Famous Tea Mountains of Yunnan, and among pu'er drinkers it carries a specific reputation: this is not a gentle mountain.

This cake was pressed in 2018 from spring-harvest arbor material. It has been in Xi'an dry storage since production.

The Character of Bulang

Every major pu'er growing region has a defining quality. For Bada, it is the plum and honey fragrance. For Mengsong, it is the combination of high fragrance and fast-dissolving bitterness. For Bulang, it is something less polite: a deep, concentrated bitterness and a physical presence in the body that drinkers here call cha qi — tea energy.

The bitterness of Bulang tea is not a flaw to be minimized or a sign of poor material. It is the mountain's signature, and it is followed — reliably, dramatically — by one of the strongest and most rapid transformations in all of Yunnan pu'er: the bitterness clears, the throat opens, and a returning sweetness rises from deep in the chest that holds long after the cup is empty.

The cha qi is real and noticeable.

The fragrance moves between orchid and floral honey — present in the leaf, alive in the liquor, and particularly strong in the cup bottom after each pour. The empty vessel holds the scent for a long time.

Seven Years In

A 2018 spring sheng from Bulang, dry-stored in Xi'an, is a tea at an early but interesting stage. The bitterness has not diminished — that is not what seven years does to Bulang material — but it has become more composed, more willing to transform on the palate rather than simply sitting there.

The fragrance has begun to deepen. The body has gained weight. Bulang material with good aging potential tends to develop slowly and substantially, and this one is built for exactly that.

The Xi'an storage has kept the flavor clean and the origin character fully intact. There is no storage note here — only the mountain.

Available In

• 357g cake — one full bing, spring-harvest Bulang arbor material
• Tong of 7 cakes — 7 × 357g, bamboo-wrapped; recommended for those intending to age
• 30g sample — for those trying before committing to a full cake

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