1 Brick (500 Grams)

250 Grams Portion

25 Grams Sample

10 Grams Sample

<p style="color: #000000; font-family: &amp;quot; helvetica neue&amp;quot;,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;">In 2018 Hai Lang collected 240 kilograms of spring 2018 harvested mao cha from Lao Ban Zhang village and had it painstakingly small-batch wet piled to perfection.  After 43 days of wet piling this light fermentation ripe pu-erh tea was stored for many months before being pressed (in 2019) into 500 gram bricks.
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<p style="color: #000000; font-family: &amp;quot; helvetica neue&amp;quot;,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;">I have seen many productions of ripe Lao Ban Zhang teas over the last decade, but this (<a href="https://yunnansourcing.com/products/2017-hai-lang-hao-lao-ban-zhang-ripe-pu-erh-tea-brick">and his 2017 production</a>) are the only ones really worthy of being called "Lao Ban Zhang Ripe".  Hai Lang is a pu-erh dealer and producer who has been around for 20 years.  He's unapologetically direct and cares more about quality and one upmanship than he does about anything else.  This is a good quality in a pu-erh producer, and it's that very quality that allowed him to undertake the expense and the risk to wet pile such a tea as Lao Ban Zhang.  For him, this tea represents authentic "Lao Ban Zhang Ripe", often sold, and rarely, if ever (until now) actually produced.
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2019 Hai Lang Hao "Lao Ban Zhang" Ripe Pu-erh Tea Brick

ripe puer tea by Yunnan Sourcing

1 Brick (500 Grams)

$1234.25

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250 Grams Portion

$629.25

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25 Grams Sample

$65.50

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10 Grams Sample

$29.75

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