The aroma of tea cake is aged mellow sweetness of plums, which is overwhelming, lively and elegant.
The rinsing tea fragrance is obvious, vivid, thick, sweet and very energetic.
The tea broth is so refreshing and smooth with silky texture. The overall tea quality is rich and thick. The aged Yiwu aftertaste is gentle and soft together with attractive slight huigan.
Nowadays, the aged tea cakes of Menghai Tea Factory or Dayi (TAETEA) are outrageously expensive. If tea lovers and connoisseurs are just looking for good-tasting, inexpensive, mid-term aged tea cakes having the traditional Menghai tea flavor, they may hunt the potential treasure tea cakes from the early Fuhai Tea Factory’s Puerh tea cakes. It’s because experienced tea lovers and connoisseurs realise that the traditional tea flavor of Menghai Tea Factory can be found in the aged tea cakes of Fuhai Tea Factory just with inexpensive prices at present. The price of aged Fuhai tea cake is still low, but the tea taste is traditional indeed.
Wild Tea
The term "Wild Tea" has been banned by China from using in commercial tea products since 2007. In the early days, the merchant using the name “Wild Tea" was just to increase the sales because the market loved this term. Actually, the genuine wild tea is the tea leaves growing in the natural forest and having no artificial domestication nor cultivation. For these genuine wild tea, the local people from national minority name them as the “Tea of Bitterness”, which is not suitable for daily drinking.
The tea name "Wild Tea" using in a general commercial tea product is actually referring to the cultivated wild tea (野放茶), which meant that it was artificially cultivated and managed at the beginning, for example, in the time of late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China.
Later, due to the changes of political situations, the tea gardens were abandoned and had no management for many years, but the tea trees planted inside the garden still grew tea leaves and then the leaves withered naturally. After no artificial management, the tea trees were undergoing natural development. There was no artificial fertiliser and pesticide for decades.
Since the cultivated wild tea grew in accordance with the law of natural ecology, without any human intervention up to decades (or even a hundred of years), these cultivated wild tea (野放茶) contained very rich substances providing extraordinary good and plentiful tea tastes.
Yiwu is one of the Six Ancient Great Tea Mountains.
According to the Qing Dynasty document, Dianhai Yuheng Zhi (滇海虞衡誌), “Puerh tea is famous to the world… These great Puerh teas were obtained from the Six Ancient Great Tea Mountains, which are Youle (攸樂), Gedeng (革登), Yibang (倚邦), Mangzhi (莽枝), Manzhuan (蠻磚) and Mansa (漫撒). Surrounding the eight hundred miles of these mountains, there are hundreds of thousands of tea makers going deeply into the mountains to pluck tea and sell to tea traders who transported and sold the Puerh teas to the rest of China."
Mansa (漫撒) is today's Yiwu, which was the historical tribute tea for the royal family in the Qing Dynasty. “Yiwu Cheshun Hao Tea House” was once awarded the wooden plaque "Ruigong Tianchao" (瑞貢天朝) by Emperor Daoguang (道光) of the Qing Dynasty, making Yiwu Tea even more famous.
Nowadays, many tea lovers already know the famous tea production areas in Yiwu, such as Mahei (麻黑), Luoshui Dong (落水洞), Guafeng Village (刮風寨), Zhangjia Wan (張家灣), Dingjia Village (丁家寨), Baohe Tang (薄荷塘) and so on.