普洱:茶魂 (Pǔ’ěr: Chá Hún)

茶魂 (Chá Hún, or “Spirit Of Tea”) is a 500 g cake from 雲南雙江勐庫 (The Yúnnán Shuāng Jiāng Měngkù Tea Company).

It’s composed of hand-processed wild arbor tea from the 冰島 (Bīngdǎo — “Ice Island”) area of 勐庫 (Měngkù).

I currently have first pressing cakes from the inaugural 2009 year, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016 year productions.

(Much thanks to the folks at Yunnan Sourcing, who tracked down a tǒng or more of each of these for me.)