Dali, Yunnan

Dali Danzhu Pu’er

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One registered ancient tree, grown at 2,118 meters and estimated at around 1,800 years old. It is listed and protected under Yongping County's ancient tea tree registry, tagged with its own registration number.

Dali Cha (大理茶 / Camellia taliensis) — a single ancient tea tree, not a cultivated plot.

Known for years, not sourced overnight. Mr. Zhou has worked with this single tree long before we started paying attention, and continues to refine the same process harvest after harvest.

A broad old tea tree, its trunk marked with a registration tag

A tall old tea tree with a weathered, branching trunk

Two people reaching around the trunk of a very old tea tree

Looking up into the branches of an old tea tree on a hillside

An old tea tree on a dry slope against a blue sky, Dali, Yunnan

An old tea tree on a hillside, with forested mountains behind

A single old tea tree within the forest, seen from above

Old tea trees among the forest, seen from above

Forest canopy from above, with tea trees growing among other trees

Mist moving across the forest where the old tea trees grow

Forested mountain in low cloud, Dali, Yunnan

Cloud drifting over the mountain slopes around the tea forest

One place. One

tree

. One maker. One harvest.

Harvests

Every harvest is recorded here, whether or not it is selected. Tea is offered only when a harvest meets our standard. The place and the maker remain independent.

The archive here begins with its first harvest.

One place, observed over time.

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