Sticky Rice Scent Ripe Pu-erh Tea Cake(Nuo Mi Xiang)

This is a ripe Pu-erh tea cake from Yunnan, China. It's made into two pieces, 100 grams each, and sealed in a paper box. 

The tea smells like glutinous rice, also known as sticky rice aroma. 

Glutinous rice is a plant in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan. It's famous for its pleasant scent. Nuo mi Xiang herb is another name for this plant. When the leaves of glutinous rice and Pu'er tea leaves are mixed and pressed into a tea cake or tea, it becomes Glutinous Rice Fragrance Pu'er Tea or Nuomi Xiang Pu-erh. The way to make Glutinous Rice Fragrance Pu'er Tea is the same as regular Pu'er tea.

The maker of this tea is from the Tea Research Institute of Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences. It's the only public and basic provincial research unit for tea in Yunnan. It started in 1938 and is very important in Chinese Pu'er tea.

Other names for this tea are:

• Glutinous Rice Pu-erh Tea
• Nuomi Xiang Pu-erh Tea
• Fragrant Rice Pu-erh Tea