2012 Gao Jian Shan "Qian Liang Cha" Hunan Hei Cha Tea Purple Tea Late-March picking

Late-March picking

This is a small Menghai area tea factory production composed almost entirely of tippy ripe leaves

April Harvest

they went fully private in 1996 and adopted the 'dayi' (大益) logo

Click here to see pictures of the Liang family tea plantation and learn more about them

2012 Gao Jian Shan "Qian Liang Cha" Hunan Hei Cha Tea Purple Tea Late-March pickingGao Jia Shan production made from 2012 Spring tea leaves. Pressed into a huge 36 kilogram column called "Qian Liang Cha" (aka 1000 catty tea) and then aged for 7 years before we purchased a whole column and then cut into slices and re packaged into white wrapper 680 780 grams cake. (If you want to get whole "cake" choose the 800 grams option and you'll get a whole cake + some pieces to get the overall weight up to 800 grams. (example: you might get a