A special and limited batch of tea from Sơn La province in northwest Vietnam.
 
This is a tea from Bản Bẹ, arguably the best ancient tree gardens in Bắc Yên district of Sơn La province. The people living and making tea here are of the H'Mông ethnicity.
 
This tea was made in an area called Tà Xùa, one of the more well known areas for old tree Assamica tea in Vietnam. Tà Xùa mainly produces wok and machine made green tea but we focus mainly on puerh which is much more rare here. 
 
It is quite foggy and misty most of the year here and spring 2025 was no exception. I had all but given up on Tà Xùa tea until a new friend I had met while walking through the village in early April gave me a call in early May and told me he had made a couple batches of tea on some late season sunny days. The raw material and processing is really good and we’re happy to have tea from this area for 2025.
 
This tea brews up into a rich gold green soup. Typical Bản Bẹ profile, heavily floral, fruity and sweet with some citrus notes, medium bitterness/ astringency. This tea has a pleasant minerality with a rich lasting huigan and strong qi.
 
We were only able to get 5kg of this tea so we decided to press 100g cakes. 
 
100g cakes ($0.25/ gram)
 
Season: First week of May 2025
Picking Standard: 1 bud, 2 leaves
Region: Tà Xùa, Sơn La
Elevation: 1400m