Mao Cha (毛茶) — raw, unprocessed tea from the Ai Ban garden on Jingmai Mountain (景迈山), Lancang, Yunnan. Ai Ban sits on the Da Ping Zhang plateau, part of the vast UNESCO-listed Jingmai ancient tea forest, where tea trees grow intermingled with the forest rather than in cleared plantations. This is ancient-garden material, hand-picked in late March 2026; drought that season limited the yield to a single small batch.

This is tea in its most fundamental form: uncompressed, sun-dried, not yet pressed into a cake. The liquor is juicy and powerful, with a strong mouthfeel, plenty of cha qi, and a huigan that builds on the gums and trails sweetness down the throat. Tasters note cool forest, apricot, fresh tree bark, minerality and mint — intense early, then refreshing, cooling and juicy across later steeps. Drink it now for its vitality, or store it to age.

Origin: Ai Ban garden, Da Ping Zhang, Jingmai Mountain, Lancang, Yunnan — Spring (late March) 2026
Cultivar: Jingmai ancient-garden heirloom varieties
Processing: Sun-dried mao cha, uncompressed
Package size: 50g