Making Pu'er Tea in Nannuo Mountain, Yunnan | CHINA SOURCING TRIP

In a market hot for rarities + hype, Nannuo Mountain could very well be the most overlooked pu'er terroir due to its accessibility. Find the right people and ancient gardens, however, and you might just get excellent Menghai tea for a grounded price. Let's explore these mountains and make tea with Dá É and her son MuMu, Hani farmer-makers striving to revive a fractured tea family lineage.

The Hani people, or Akha, are one of Yunnan's 25 ethnic groups, with over a 1000 years of history in Nannuo Mountain. They have no written language, sharing their culture and stories orally.

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0:00 intro
1:27 hani in the trees
2:03 hidden in plain sight
4:31 Dá É and MuMu’s story
6:25 the 700 year old tea tree
8:38 tall pole gao gan shu
10:00 going home to make tea
11:51 factory tour / how they produce pu’er
20:51 a fractured tea lineage
21:52 Banpo ecology / select trees
25:30 sampling for this year’s release
36:34 the return