2010 Wild Buds Pu’er Tea

2010 Vintage · Mengku Daxueshan Millennium Wild Tea Buds | Snow Peak Spirit Buds, Amber of Time
— The living fossil at the heart of the world tea origin, a natural code frozen for millennia

Origin: The Wild Epic of the Ancestral Tea Holy Land

• World Tea Origin Coordinates: Harvested from the pristine forests of Mengku Daxueshan, Shuangjiang, Yunnan, above 2200 meters altitude, neighboring the 2700-year-old Wild Tea Tree King (discovered in 2002, the oldest cultivated wild tea tree known in the world). The peaks are shrouded in year-round mist, nourished by glacial meltwater, forming an ecological sanctuary isolated from the world.

• Millennial Bud Phenomenon: These wild ancient tea trees survived the glacial period. Buds sprout only before the beginning of spring, resembling pine cones or silver bamboo shoots, densely covered in snow-white fuzz. Annual yield is less than 15 kilograms; each kilogram requires climbing over 32 dangerous peaks. Tea pickers harvest by rope-climbing cliffs, making it truly a “spirit object picked with life-risk.”

Tea Quality: The Flavor Sanctuary Aged in the Snowy Realm

• Appearance: Dry leaves curl like bamboo shoots. After 15 years of dry storage aging, they transform into a bronze-gilded color, heavy and dense like black iron.

• Aroma: Upon opening, wild orchid honey aroma mixed with fir wood notes bursts forth, with a glacial mint coolness lingering at the cup bottom. The aroma clings to the cup for over half an hour.

• Liquor: The tea soup is golden-red and translucent like molten lava, rich in gelatinous texture with a silk-like smoothness on the palate and a fresh mountain spring sensation passing through the throat.

• Flavor Trilogy:

  • Opening Chapter · Snowy Sweet Spring: Wild honey sweetness envelops the tongue, a slight bitterness on the tongue sides dissolves instantly;

  • Middle Chapter · Ancient Towering Trees: Aged wood aroma, faint ginseng herb scent, and pine resin blend, with a cool throat feeling reaching deep into the chest;

  • Final Chapter · Time’s Honey Vault: Icing sugar sweetness surges at the finish, with a spring-like bubbling on the tongue’s base and a continuous warm flow circulating through the body.

• Legendary Steeping Durability: Still rich in flavor after 25 infusions, with aging active compounds releasing slowly, each brew telling the four seasons of the snow mountain.

Direct Lineage of the Tea Tree King: Bud trees share origins with the 2700-year-old Wild Tea Tree King. Tested by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, tea polyphenol content reaches 42.1% (200% higher than ordinary tea), catechin profile close to original wild tea species, with antioxidant capacity 5.8 times that of cultivated garden tea.

• Glacial Survival Code: To withstand severe cold, the buds accumulate large amounts of antifreeze proteins and rare flavonoids, granting “life energy” with anti-radiation and cell repair abilities.

Collectible Value: A Rare Time Specimen in the Tea World

• Aging Miracle: 15 years of dry storage aging in Kunming transformed the fresh wild aroma into a “snow ginseng fragrance.”