200g 2017 Dark Step Jingmai Sheng Pu'er Bing 烏步景邁生普洱餅

2017 Dark Step Jingmai Sheng Pu'er Bing (烏步景邁生普洱餅, Wū Bù Jǐng Mài Shēng Pǔ'ěr Bǐng, "Dark Step Jingmai Sheng Pu'er Bing") - A beautiful cake made from material from Jingmai Mountain near Pu'er City, about 2 hours north of Nannuo Mountain. Composed of large, whole, dark leaves, this cake has a multi-layered profile with both sweet and bitter notes that unfolds and evolves on the palette. Though only 6 years old as of the time of this description, it has a surprisingly mature flavor characteristic of dry-stored Yunnan pu'er. Mellow with low astringency, this tea is a textbook example of what a sheng pu'er made from high-grade starting material becomes as it ages. Ready to drink as is, it will only continue to deepen in character as it ages.