Beyond Dayi, Xiaguan, and Zhongcha, pu'er has many other common brands: Chen Sheng Hao, known for Lao Banzhang; Lao Tong Zhi (Haiwan Tea), founded by Zou Bingliang; and Fu Jin, which started with Banzhang tea. We also look at how to choose tea from small brands, what custom-pressed tea is, and how to verify the material.
Yulin Gushu Tea is the brand of Menghai Yulin Guchafang Tea Co., Ltd., founded in August 2013 and headquartered in Mengsong Township, Menghai County. It focuses on old-tree tea, classified into three flavor types: bitter tea, sweet tea, and bitter-sweet tea. Learn about its product lines, positioning, and what to check when buying.
"Six Famous Tea Mountains" (Liuda Chashan) is both the name of a Qing-dynasty tribute tea region and a tea company brand founded in Kunming in 2002. Learn about founder Ruan Dianrong's path from director of Menghai Tea Factory to her own brand, the company's signature products, and how the brand name relates to the ancient Six Tea Mountains.
Yunnan's people have grown and drunk tea for a very long time; the written record starts with the Tang-dynasty Manshu, about 1,160 years ago. "Pu tea" appeared in the Ming dynasty, it became tribute tea after Pu'er Prefecture was set up in 1729, and from the Republican-era tea houses to state-run factories and ripe tea, it has come all the way to today.
Lancang Ancient Tea is a tea company in Lancang County, Pu'er City, Yunnan. Its roots go back to a 1966 tea training course on Jingmai Mountain and the county tea factory, and it listed in Hong Kong on December 22, 2023. Learn how it's connected to Jingmai Mountain, and what its ripe teas 0085 and 0081 are.
Kunming Tea Factory is a birthplace of ripe tea processing and home of the 7581 ripe brick; its recipe codes end in 1, and it's generally recorded as stopping production in 1992. Pu'er Tea Factory was founded in 1975 in Pu'er County (today's Ning'er), with codes ending in 4. Plus local state-owned factories in Lincang, Jinggu, Fengqing, and Lancang.
Why is pu'er pressed into cakes? The answer lies on the Ancient Tea Horse Road. This old trade route across the Hengduan Mountains and the Tibetan Plateau carried Yunnan's tea to faraway places on horseback.
Zhongcha (CNNP) is a state-owned tea company founded in 1949 and part of COFCO since 2004. Its trademark, ringed by eight red "zhong" characters, has been in use from 1951 to today. Learn Zhongcha's history, its classic products, and how to tell Zhongcha pu'er from different eras by the packaging.
Xiaguan Tea Factory is in Xiaguan, Dali, Yunnan. Its story runs from Yongchangxiang creating tuocha in 1902 and the Kang-Zang Tea Factory in 1941 to today's Xiaguan Tuocha Group. Get to know its tuocha, jincha, and iron cakes, the dates behind the Songhe (Pine and Crane) trademark, and the different explanations for "Xiaguan smoke."
Dayi is the brand; Menghai Tea Factory is the factory that makes the tea. From Fan Hejun's party arriving in Fohai in 1938, to the Dayi trademark registered in 1989 and privatization in 2004, to classic products like 7542 and 7572, plus how to avoid fakes when buying Dayi.
Chrysanthemum pu'er (gukpou) is ripe pu'er with chrysanthemum, a classic order in Hong Kong teahouses. The aroma of sticky-rice pu'er comes from nuomixiang, a plant in the Acanthaceae family, not from added rice. Rose pu'er blends or presses rose petals with pu'er. Flavored pu'er with other ingredients is a reprocessed tea drink, and the ingredient list tells you what's inside.
Citrus pu'er (ganpu) pairs citrus peel with ripe pu'er. Xiao qing gan uses unripe green mandarins picked in July and August, big red mandarin uses red mandarins ripened in autumn and winter, and chenpi pu'er blends peel aged for years with ripe pu'er. Xinhui chenpi became a protected geographical indication product in 2006. Well-dried citrus pu'er can be stored, and its citrus aroma slowly turns aged.
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