Laos Maocha
7LAO

Harvest: March 2019
Origin: Laos / Bokeo / Meung
Height: 700-800 m.a.s.l
Tea plant varietal: Qiao Mu Da Ye Zhong
125g / 25,00 CHF
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The northern part of Laos borders Myanmar as well as China and is the region where the tea plant has its origins - hence one finds some very old trees.The Laos Maocha is produced the same way as a Chinese Pu Er Sheng Cha, i.e. fired in a wok and then sun dried, but may not be called a Pu Er because of its origin.
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Heicha
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This tea has been fermented microbially during years of storage and keeps maturing over time, gaining depth, sweetness and earthy aromas.

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Lu An Cha 2014
8A14

Harvest: May 2014
Origin: China / Anhui / Chizhou / Guichi / Tangxi
Height: 600-800 m.a.s.l
Tea plant varietal: Jiu Hua Shan Qun Ti Zhong
ca. 500g / 110,00 CHF
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Lu An Cha or Liu An Cha is a very peculiar, idiosyncratic almost tobacco-like Heicha. It is only slightly fermented through human-induced post-fermentation, but then heavily roasted above fire and then packed and stored in little baskets. This Lu'ancha is produced from a local vaiety from mount Jiuhuashan and therefore also called Jiuhua Ancha. This tea has been stocked China until 2020.
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Heicha
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This tea has been fermented microbially during years of storage and keeps maturing over time, gaining depth, sweetness and earthy aromas.
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Chuan Zi Lao Qing Zhuan 1992
8C92

Harvest: September 1992
Origin: China / Hubei / Chibi
Height: 500 m.a.s.l
Tea plant varietal: E Nan Shan Qu Qing Mao Cha
ca. 400g / 140,00 CHF
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A rare classical heicha, one of the oldest ways of tea manufacturing. Normally pressed into rather big bricks. The tea leaves undergo an accelerated microbial postfermenting stage in a hot and damp room, this proces continues more slowly after pressing. Chuan Zi Lao Qing Zhuan was and is exportet to Mongolian tribes, which use it for their salted milk tea.



Like Fucha, Chuan Zi Lao Qing Zhuan is quite a primordial tea with unexpected aromas, but smooth and sweet. Some similarity with Pu Er is there, but still Fucha is quite different and distinct.
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Chuan Zi Lao Qing Zhuan is, just like Fu Cha, an earthy, primordial tea with unexpected, unknown tastes, but very mellow and sweet.
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Heicha
Storage:
This tea has been fermented microbially during years of storage and keeps maturing over time, gaining depth, sweetness and earthy aromas.
Fu Zhuan Cha 2016
8F16

Harvest: April-July 2016
Origin: China / Hunan / Yiyang / Anhua / Malu
Height: 800 m.a.s.l
Tea plant varietal: An Hua Yun Tai Shan Da Ye Zhong
ca. 800g / 100,00 CHF
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A real Fucha from summer crop 2016. Fuzhuancha is called Fu Brick Tea, after a mushroom called Fu that grows on conifers and is used in Chinese medicine. Fucha is one of the classical heicha. one of the oldest ways of tea manufactering. Normally pressed to huge brick; this one is quite a small variant. The tea leaves undergo a microbial postfermenting stage in a hot and damp room, this process continues after pressing. Fu Cha is usually pressed into very big bricks, this one is a smaller variant.This tea has been stocked China until 2020.
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Fucha is quite a primordial tea, what shows in flavor too. Rather unknown, unexpected aromas, very smooth and surpisingly sweet. Some similarity with Pu Er is there, but still Fucha is quite different and distinct.
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Heicha
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This tea has been fermented microbially during years of storage and keeps maturing over time, gaining depth, sweetness and earthy aromas.
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Fu Zhuan Cha 1997
8F97

Harvest: September 1997
Origin: China / Hunan / Anhua
Height: 800 m.a.s.l
Tea plant varietal: An Hua Ben Di Qun Zhong
ca. 450g / 140,00 CHF
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A real Fucha from summer crop 1997. Fucha is one of the classical heicha. one of the oldest ways of tea manufactering. Normally pressed to huge brick; this one is quite a small variant. The tea leaves undergo a microbial postfermenting stage in a hot and damp room, this process continues after pressing. Fu Cha is usually pressed into very big bricks, this one is a smaller variant.
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Fucha is quite a primordial tea, what shows in flavor too. Rather unknown, unexpected aromas, very smooth and surpisingly sweet. Some similarity with Pu Er is there, but still Fucha is quite different and distinct.
Category:
Heicha
Storage:
This tea has been fermented microbially during years of storage and keeps maturing over time, gaining depth, sweetness and earthy aromas.
Gui Zhou Hei Cha 1982
8G82

Harvest: May 1982
Origin: China / Sichuan / Ya'an
Height: 580-1800 m.a.s.l
Tea plant varietal: Wu Chuan Da Shu Cha
ca. 500g / 545,00 CHF
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Very nice traditional Heicha using tea leaves from Sichuan province, but processed in Guizhou province. Pressed to a lump of 500g.

The tea leaves undergo a microbial postfermenting stage in a hot and damp room, this process continues after pressing.

Probably produced to export along the old caravan roads to Tibet, Xinjiang or Mongolia. This type of tea is also named Lu Bian Cha (Roadside Tea) or Zang Cha (Tibet Tea).
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Marvellously old, woody, sweet, mellow, earthy, nice.
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Heicha
Storage:
This tea has been fermented microbially during years of storage and keeps maturing over time, gaining depth, sweetness and earthy aromas.
Goishicha
8JGO

Harvest: July 2021
Origin: Japan / Kochi
Height: 430 m.a.s.l
Tea plant varietal: Yabukita, Zairai
100g / 85,00 CHF
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Goishicha (Go-stone tea) is a two-fold fermented tea from the Kochi prefecture. After steaming the tea it is first fermented aerobicly and then anareobicly (resulting in a lacto fermentation). Following this, the pressed tea is being cut in small lumps and then sundried. A most peculiar sensory experience with an acidic component.
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Shan Dong Liu Bao
8L01

Harvest: Summer 2001/02
Origin: China / Guangxi / Wuzhou / Liubao
Height: 1000 m.a.s.l
Tea plant varietal: Xiao Ye Zhong
100g / 32,50 CHF
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A Liubaocha of traditional production; the worked leaves of the local small-leaf varieties are stacked in a mountain cafe (Shandong) to undergo the post-fermentation initiated by humans. There, the present micro-organisms ferment the tea. Naturally fermented through storing over several years. This tea has been kept in Guangzhou, China, until 2016.
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Heicha
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This tea has been fermented microbially during years of storage and keeps maturing over time, gaining depth, sweetness and earthy aromas.
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Liu Bao Cha 2008
8L08

Harvest: Spring/Summer 2008/2009
Origin: China / Guangxi / Wuzhou / Liubao
Height: 1000 m.a.s.l
Tea plant varietal: Xiao Ye Zhong
100g / 25,00 CHF
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Liubaocha is a classical Heicha of very high quality, made in a way similar to Pu'er with similar aromas. This Heicha is made of local small-leaf tea varieties and then fermented by a post-fermentation induced by human hand: the moist leaves are being stacked in a moist and warm room and the microorganisms in the air ferment the tea, a process that continues after the tea is being pressed into its shape. Stocked in Guangzhou, China until 2016.
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Heicha
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This tea has been fermented microbially during years of storage and keeps maturing over time, gaining depth, sweetness and earthy aromas.
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Qian Liang Cha 2007
8Q07

Harvest: September 2007
Origin: China / Hunan / Anhua
Height: 1000 m.a.s.l
Tea plant varietal: An Hua Yun Tai Shan Da Ye Zhong
ca. 850g / 185,00 CHF
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Qian Liang Cha may be translated to 100 pound (lb) tea. Normally it is pressed to huge columns of a heavy weight. These might be cut to Cakes, sometimes smaller columns or other forms are pressed too. Qian Liang Cha is one of the classical heicha. one of the oldest ways of tea manufactering. Normally pressed to huge brick; this one is quite a small variant. The tea leaves undergo a microbial postfermenting stage in a hot and damp room, this proces continues after pressing.



Quite a primordial tea with smooth and sweet taste, remembers Pu Er, somewhere between raw and fermented.
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A really earthy, primordial tea, which reminds of Pu Er besides its sweet mellow aromas, somewhere between raw and fermented.
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Heicha
Storage:
This tea has been fermented microbially during years of storage and keeps maturing over time, gaining depth, sweetness and earthy aromas.
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Shi Liang Cha 2010
8S10

Harvest: April 2010
Origin: China / Hunan / Anhua / Malu / Tian'e
Height: 600 m.a.s.l
Tea plant varietal: Xiao Ye Zhong
ca. 500g / 210,00 CHF
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Shi Liang Cha, which means a pound of tea, is a smaller version of the pressed tea that is called Qian Liang Cha (hundred pound tea). This tea is usually pressed into huge pillars. Shiliangcha resp. Qianliangcha is one of the traditional Heicha, and one of the oldest ways of processing the tea leaves. The tea is fermented by a post-fermentation induced by human hand: the moist leaves are being stacked in a moist and warm room and the microorganisms in the air ferment the tea, a process that continues after the tea is being pressed into its shape. This tea has been stocked China until 2020.
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Heicha
Storage:
This tea has been fermented microbially during years of storage and keeps maturing over time, gaining depth, sweetness and earthy aromas.
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Shui Xian Shi Liang Cha 2014
8S14

Harvest: Spring 2013
Origin: China / Guangdong / Chaozhou / Fenghuang+Raoping
Height: 600 m.a.s.l
Tea plant varietal: Shui Xian Bai Ye
310g / 180,00 CHF
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This Heicha is made from Shuixian teaplants from Fenghuang; it can thus be considered a Phoenix Heicha. Harvested in the spring of 2013 from the tea varietal Shui Xian Bai Ye in Fenghuang as well as the neighbouring district, Raoping. The tea has then been crafted into a Heicha in Anhua, in Hunan province. It is in Anhua province that the traditional Heicha Qianliangcha and Fuzhuancha are produced.
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Heicha
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This tea has been fermented microbially during years of storage and keeps maturing over time, gaining depth, sweetness and earthy aromas.
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Tian Jian 2013
8T13

Harvest: Spring/Summer 2013
Origin: China / Hunan / Anhua / Malu / Qixiandong
Height: 500 m.a.s.l
Tea plant varietal: Zhu Ye Ji
50g / 30,00 CHF
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Tian Jian, literally translated as Top of heaven is the highest quality of Heicha from Anhua. The rating of the quality happens only once the tea has been completed, before it is pressed and packaged. The post-fermentation is induced by humans: the moist leaves are being heaped in a moist and warm room and the microorganisms in the air ferment the tea, a process that continues after the tea is being pressed into its shape. Stocked in China until 2020.
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Heicha
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This tea has been fermented microbially during years of storage and keeps maturing over time, gaining depth, sweetness and earthy aromas.
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Zang Cha 2017
8Z17

Harvest: April 2017
Origin: China / Sichuan / Leshan / Mabian
Height: 1700 m.a.s.l
Tea plant varietal: Lao Chuan Cha
ca. 500g / 125,00 CHF
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A very beautiful traditional Heicha made from local large-leaf plants from Sichuan. The tea is fermented by a post-fermentation induced by human hand: the moist leaves are being stacked in a moist and warm room and the microorganisms in the air ferment the tea. Then, the tea is pressed into 500g-lumps and stocked for years, during this time, a natural post-fermentation takes place. This tea has been stocked China until 2020.

It is probable that this Heicha was initially destined to the export along the old paths of the caravans leading to Tibet, Xinjiang or Mongolia. The name Zangcha can be translated as Tibet-tea.
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Category:
Heicha
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This tea has been fermented microbially during years of storage and keeps maturing over time, gaining depth, sweetness and earthy aromas.
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