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2019 Chaze Bai Fu 'Hundred Blessings' Ripe Pu Erh Cake 357g

2019 Chaze Bai Fu 'Hundred Blessings' Ripe Pu Erh Cake 357g

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It's rare to encounter a ripe pu-erh tea like this, with its incredibly rich, sticky texture. While the thickness is moderate, this stickiness that completely coasts your palate, we would describe as quite insane. Just this feature makes it one of our favourite ripe pu erh tea cakes from the Dai minority region in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan.

The tea cake is crafted from a refined blend of tea leaves and golden buds, meticulously processed into loose tea (mao cha) and gently post-fermented to achieve a balanced flavor. The cakes are loosely compressed, allowing you to break them apart easily, even with your hands if a tea knife isn’t available.

The flavor is wonderfully comforting, with sweet notes of dates and caramel. As you continue steeping, subtle hints of rice and mint emerge, adding complexity to your gongfu brewing session. This isn’t a heavily fermented or overly robust ripe pu erh; instead, it offers a gentle earthiness, free from any smokiness or strong spice flavors.

While, we recommend to start out steeping it at full temperature, this ripe pu erh tea is also quite suitable to steep at lower temperatures (80-90º), compensated with a longer steeping time. Its endurance is remarkable, only starting to become milder in taste after 8 steeps. The same tea leaves can easily be brewed for 14 times.

We only managed to obtain 28 cakes of this tea, and once sold out it won't be restocked. Thus, we recommend you to order a sample or a single cake first, and stock up if this is the right ripe pu erh tea for you.

Origin

  • Year: 2019
  • Season: Spring
  • Origin: Xishuangbanna, Yunnan
  • Leaf grade: ancient tree (gu shu)
  • Varietal (cultivar): large leaf Assamica (Da Ye Zhong)
  • Production date: 22 May 2019
  • Batch: 1
  • Compression: loose
  • Type: ripe (shou)
  • Brand: Chaze
  • Series/recipe: Bai Fu
  • Shape: pu erh tea cake
  • Weight: 357g

How to Steep

How to make Bai Fu 'Hundred Blessings' ripe pu erh tea?

There are two methods to prepare this pu erh tea cake:

Gongfu method

Brew 5 gram with 100 ml of water at 100°C. Steep for 10 seconds for the first few infusions. Afterward, gradually increase the steeping time.

Western method

Steep 3 gram with 500 ml of water at 100 °C. Apply a brewing time of 1.5 minutes and add 1 minute for each next infusion.

Shipping, Returns & Payment Methods

Delivery time: EU delivery takes 1–10 days. For country-specific estimates, please see the Shipping Info page at the bottom of our website.

No import taxes: We ship from our EU warehouse. Customers in the EU will not be charged import taxes upon delivery. All applicable taxes are included in our prices.

Free shipping: From €65 to the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, and Ireland. From €85 to most other EU countries and the UK.

Returns: We offer a 30-day return period.

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How this ripe pu erh tea is made

  • tea processing: tea leaves picking

    Picking

    Tea leaves are hand-picked in the morning.

  • tea processing: withering and drying tea on bamboo trays

    Withering

    The leaves are spread on bamboo trays to wither.

  • Fixation

    The withered leaves are heated to halt oxidation.

  • tea processing: rolling and shaping tea leaves

    Rolling

    Tea leaves are rolled to release their aroma.

  • tea processing: withering and sun drying tea leaves

    Sun drying

    Rolled leaves are spread on bamboo mats to sun-dry.

  • tea processing: fermenting ripe pu erh tea

    Fermentation

    The leaves are post-fermented in a controlled environment.

  • tea processing: stone pressing pu erh tea cakes

    Pressing

    The post fermented tea is steamed & compressed.

  • tea processing: packaging pressed pu erh tea

    Packaging

    The compressed tea is wrapped in paper & packed in boxes.

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Dhyan Meinoud
This pu ehr travelled with me trough the Baltic

This pu ehr travelled with me trough the Baltic and back to the Netherlands. I love this Pu Ehr it is perfect in a Gaiwan and I like it strong.

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Anonymous
Soft tea

Soft tea, very interesting profile , not a strong earthiness.

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Toda Keisei
Great!!

This tea has a delightful aroma that lingers through the nose and a subtle sweetness that is very pleasant.
I enjoy drinking it as a post-meal tea.

Hello Toda, we're glad you enjoyed it!

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Takács Péter
Excelent

It is very good, tasty

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Stepan Vynarchyk
Balanced for daily life

I like this one, a softly like cotton, taste is good

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Markus Aigner
A bit messy but quite good, if...

Although it sounds promising, and the fact that it is from a smaller branch of the Menghai tea manufactury heightened my expectations, it is not from high quality. The taste is quite well, a bit smoky and earthy, what I like, but from the first brewing a lot of junk is noticable and almost disturbing the harmony of the tea. This could be very good, if harvested and selected with more care, leaving out all those branches, overmatured leafparts or leafestalks. It would be maybe ok for half of the price, then this all would be about to expected. Nevertheless, it is OK and I absolutely love drinking Pu Erh so I will honor this by drinking it, which means removing all the items swimming in top carefully and adding a bit more fresh tea after every 3-4 brewings, but that may be my style only 🙏!

Hi Markus, thank you for the elaborate review. We highly appreciate it even if we hoped for a better score of course. I want to let you know that this message is forward to my colleagues responsible for curating pu erh tea. While we actually got really good feedback from some customers for this cake, not everyone has the same taste. We'll work hard to curate a diverse collection to make sure there's a tea cake that suits the taste of different people.

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Hans Weise
Puehr Tea

My PuEhr tea was safely packed and shipped very quickly. I always like to order there because the tea speaks for itself, good quality.

Thank you so much for your review! Always a pleasure to hear that you like this tea cake as much as we do.

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Saša Dogan
The Taste of Zen

The taste of Tea resembles the taste of Zen/Dao. No words could possibly describe it. You have to taste in on your own to get the feeling of it. For this particular - realy unique, rare and fantastic Pu Erh tea the proper description perhaps hides in it's name : "Hundred blessings". True. Hundred blessings to your palate and spirit. As it won't be restocked, don't hesitate!

Thank you for reading this review!

Hello Sasa, we're really excited to the launch of this cake, and as you could read in our description, we didn't hold back :) I'm happy to know you loved it as well!