Square Pu'er Tea Resin - 2019 Raw Pu'er from Nannuo Mountain Old Trees

This is premium Pu’er tea resin from old trees from Nannuo Mountain, harvested in 2019. Nannuo’s old trees are known to produce some of the best tea in the entire region. This is a raw Pu'er tea with an aromatic, honey-like, mellow but refreshing flavor, and each rectangular square of tea resin makes about two cups of tea. Each box contains about 70g, around 108-115 pieces. We also have resealable 50g paper bags. Tea resin, or Cha Gao, is a rare and ancient method of tea-making that involves slow-cooking tea leaves until it turns into a thick paste, and then dried into a resin. This unique tea form originated in the Tang Dynasty (618 - 907 AD) and was made mostly as a delicacy for the ruling classes and the imperial court due to its labor-intensive preparation process. However, tea resin disappeared during the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, during which the artisanal methods of making tea resin were almost entirely lost. It was also recognized as a medicinal in the Supplement to the Co