Sister Ai’s 2020 Golden Cake Sheng Pu’er Tea

Sister Ai’s 2020 Golden Cake Ancient Tree Sheng Pu’er Tea  What is “Golden Cake” Sheng Pu’er Tea? Pu’er tea is a specialty of Yunnan Province, where the tea has been the backbone of trade through the Tea Horse Road trading route for 1500 years. Sheng (Raw) Pu’er is known for its yellow or golden tea liquor and its combination of sweetness and astringency. It is different from the very dark Shou (Cooked) Pu’er. Sheng Pu’er is aged to deepen and complexify its flavor, and only gets better as it is stored. Golden Cake pu’er is made from the odd-colored leaves that are collected during the picking season. Farmers separate these leaves because they have a sweeter, more mellow flavor than normal sheng pu’er. THE TEA Sister Ai, our tea farmer partner in Yunnan, has selected the colorful, unusually sweet leaves from her 2020 crop and pressed them, at our request, into 100 gram mini-cakes. These cakes have top-quality ancient tree raw pu’er tea material, in a “rainbow” color scheme that make