DETAILED TASTING NOTES

Dry leaves aroma: yogurt, gooseberries
Wet leaves aroma: lilac, lemon curd
Texture: thick and oily
Taste: zesty pomelo and guava, herbaceous tonic water, blend of flowers, Altai herbs
Finish: refreshing, intense and juicy huigan (returning sweetness), active development in the mouth, ethereal
Empty cup aroma: custard
Aftertaste: fig leaf
Body sensation: clear-headed, energizing

Category: Raw Pu'er Tea
Original name: 春攸乐大树生普洱
Harvest: Spring 2025
Origin: YouLe Mountain (JiNuo), Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China
Cultivar: Da Ye Zhong (Large Leaf)
Altitude: 700–900m

Floral and zesty, with a thick and oily texture and an intense, juicy huigan (returning sweetness). As for how this tea ended up with us: the producer simply sent a kilo of "sample" without warning. It could have been awkward. Fortunately, the tea was fantastic — like everything else I've tasted from him — and we, of course, settled the bill once we realized what had happened.

GongFu Infusion:
95°C
6g /100ml
1st infusion: 10sec, subsequent: +5sec/infusion
11 infusions

Last Hunter comes from YouLe Mountain (JiNuo) in Xishuangbanna, one of the six famous tea mountains that supplied imperial courts for centuries. Nestled between the YiWu and MengHai production areas, the mountain is covered in rainforest shared with elephants, wild buffalo, and monkeys. It is also the territory of the YouLe (JiNuo) people, the last of China's 56 officially recognized ethnic minority groups to have been identified, who live almost exclusively on this mountain.

In winter 2024, we had the good fortune to meet one of them: a man who guided us through the jungle, casually listing the countless ways local flora and fauna could kill us. He turned out to be the last hunter in his lineage — a practice abandoned after China began restricting hunting in the late 1990s. He welcomed us into his home in Baduo village with remarkable generosity and charisma, never ceasing to surprise us. It was there we discovered he also maintains an inherited plantation and produces a small amount of tea each spring. Some of the trees in his plantation are approximately 800 years old.