2006 Menghai Ripe

Menghai material, possibly Banzhang area material Made by Xing Hai Tea Factory Stored in Menghai for 10 years and Pu'er City for 8 years.    We almost never sell tea from big factories on Farmerleaf. We prefer to focus on  smallholder productions. However, when it comes to aged tea, large factory productions can offer more traceability and pre-2007, a lot of them were actually as good as what the independent producers made. This is even more true when it comes to ripe Puerh, which requires specific knowledge, kept somewhat secret at the time. The tea was fermented in large batches, with blended leaves from a wide area.  Back in 2006, Puerh tea was just getting famous. A lot of now prestigious names were still unheard of. People started talking about Lao Banzhang around 2004, so it made sense for Xinghai Tea Factory -one of the biggest in Menghai- to gather material from that area and make a large batch of ripe Puerh. There was a lot of plantations tea in the area at the time: Lao Banz