“This has been one of if not my favorite Liu Bao to date.
I did a 1 gram to 10ml ratio across two sessions.
The tea gives notes mainly of wood(perhaps oak), light chocolate, and at times even a light vanilla.
Overall this tea has great sweetness and is quite smooth, although later steeps leave the throat a bit dry.
Despite its age the tea doe...”
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What is shou pu-erh tea
Shou is a type of pu-erh which was artificially fermented up to almost 100% before selling, at the production stage. The technology of rapid fermentation by moisturizing the heap of the material (wet piling) was not introduced in an industrial scale until 1973. It aimed to ripen the tea in the shortest time to approach the qualities of expensive aged pu-erh. But before this farmers used wetting the tea processing has been used for a long time. Lubao tea production or the traditional Hong Kong storing are based on similar principal.
Nowadays, these teas are no longer perceived as a cheap replacement for the old shengs. Ripe pu-erhs have become interesting on their own and, by their variety, can compete with raws.
Why shou is black pu-erh
Shou or ripe pu-erh infuses into a dense, deep black, oily liquor. The taste is dominated by thick nutty and earthy flavors, sometimes complemented by milky undertones. In high-quality shous one can find melodies of prunes and dried cherries. If your black pu-erh tastes fishy with rough dirt notes, try more expensive and higher quality tea.
Here you’ve come to the right shop. We offer a wide variety of organic shou pu-erhs from old tea trees. Among them are cakes of legendary Hong Tai Chang brand, aged Lui Bao tea, and our unique craft ripe pu-erhs made by self-developed technology.
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Material from 200-300-year-old trees of Thailand was collected over several years and then, in the form of loose sheng, transported to Menghai for fermentation.
In the aroma, there is dark chocolate,..
$14.00
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This shu is nothing like the 2013 Mae Nam Khun cake. The only thing they have in common is the quality of the material. Here, as always, we have honest 200–300-year-old Thai trees.
The material for..
$15.80
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Aged 2006 loose leaf Ripe Pu-erh tea of Hong Tai Chang brand. Ancient tea trees 200-500 years old. The province of Chiang Mai in the north of Thailand, 1300 meters above sea level.Dry tea flavor is co..
$18.50
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Loose-leaf Liu Bao dark tea (Hei Cha) from 200-300-year-old trees, fermented in 1993. Chiang Rai province, northern Thailand. Altitude is about 1400 meters above sea level. It’s the same place where t..
$35.00
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High-grade ripe pu-erh cake from the Ming Dee Thai factory. As always, only old trees! Pressed in 2013, years of aging in Thai mountains. However, its maturity is not why we fell in love with it.
Unl..
$110.00
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We used to have this shu in cakes in our shop and there is a chance that it’ll be back in stock someday. Now we offer to try its loose version.The interesting thing about it is that it tastes much old..
$12.00
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A unique aged shu pu-erh from an old Thai factory that makes tea according to the traditions of the famous brand Hong Tai Chang. The material is from trees aged 200-500 years. By the way, a real HTC c..
$250.00
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A cake of Liu Bao tea from the oldest Thai HTC pu-erh factory.
This old factory has never put a production (pressing or fermenting) year stamp on its cakes. However, by my parallel tasting, the year..
$185.00
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This pu-erh is the younger brother of our bestselling 2014 MM shu. The same material from 200-year-old purple trees of Myanmar, the same Menghai masters who did the fermentation. They managed to repli..
$105.00
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2013 Ripe Pu-erh tea of Hong Tai Chang brand from Ming Dee Thai factory.
Most of the trees are 200-300-year-old, grow in the natural habitat, 1300 meters above sea level.
The taste is harmonious, ba..
$98.00
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Even though this cake looks like Chinese pu-erh tea, don’t let a custom-made cover misguide you.
The material for this shu was harvested in the forests of Chiang Rai (northern Thailand) and fer..
$110.00
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Many of you have appreciated our Thai Liu Bao '93. We are pleased to introduce you to its elder brother, 1991 Liu Bao from the oldest Thai factory operating under the esteemed Hong Tai Chang brand.
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$40.00
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Shu pu-erh made from Burmese material, fermented in Menghai in 2012. The trees are 70-100 years old from Nam Pa Ka Mountain in Myanmar.
This is a classic matured ripe pu-erh tea from trees, the ty..
$95.00
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Ripe (Shou) Pu-erh tea made from Myanmar old tea trees (gushu pu-erh tea). Fermented in 2014 in Yunnan (Menghai).This shou has surprisingly transparent infusion for its age.Taste matches the infusion ..
$85.00
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Tea heads (cha tou) made from spring 2016 material from Thai 200-400-year-old trees. Fermented in December 2022.
The full description of this tea you can find on the “Chocolate Noir” Cakes page. Nev..
$21.25
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For the fermentation of this puerh, I used material from 200-400-year-old Thai trees of the 2016 spring harvest. It's the same one from which our Dragon cakes are made. I also added 700g of Bai Hao Yi..
$85.00
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The “Pine” from February 19 got the most positive reviews among all previous batches and has ended quickly in wholesale. Previously I’ve been selling it in bulk to small shops and author's tea project..
$17.00
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This shou pu-erh I crafted from old Thai trees, averaging around 300 years in age—the very same material I always used for "Raspberry Pine." The fermentation was completed on December 5, 2021. And the..
$22.00
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This is one more ripe pu-erh of Thai-Yunnan lineage (take a look at its elder brother of 2006). Thai ancient tea trees material (200-700-year-old trees) was fermented and pressed in Yunnan (Menghai). ..
$70.00
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Tea from the oldest Thai pu-erh factory. The classic Liu Bao, can easily be compared with the best Chinese samples.The leaf is large, from old trees.This Liu Bao had been fermented in a wet heap for 1..
$130.00
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The unique Ripe Pu-erh tea of Hong Tai Chang brand. Was fermented in 2003 so delicately that now tastes like a 25-year-old Sheng Pu-erh. It is mild and fruity. Ancient Thai tea trees of 200-700 years ..
$25.00
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This shou is made of 2010 mao cha from Thai 200-300-year-old trees.
The current batch is fermented in February 2018.
Ripe pu-erh made of aged material turns out to be soft. In the taste are swee..
$12.00
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Craft shu pu-erh made from the material from 100-200-year-old Myanmar purple trees, harvested in 2013. I fermented a small butch in Chiangmai, in November 2018. Tea turned out to be very distinctive i..
$17.00
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The uniqueness of this tea is in its story. This Ripe Pu-erh is made of Thai trees (200-700-year-old) material but fermented and pressed in Yunnan (Menghai) and brought back to Thailand for storage.
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$120.00
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Craft Shou (Ripe) Pu-erh made of spring 2016 material from Thai 300-500-year-old trees. Chiang Rai province, northern Thailand, 1300 meters above sea level.
Fermented in December 2017.
The dry tea s..
$17.00
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Our ripe pu-erh tea price
It is not an easy thing to make good shu pu-erh. You have to consider many technological parameters. Each type of material behaves differently and the technologist always carries risks to spoil the entire batch of tea. Moreover, tea always looses 18-20% of its weight after post-fermentation, which significantly increases the final cost of the tea.
So why is Chinese ripe pu-erh usually cheaper than raw? This is due to the fact that for the production of shou in China they mostly use cheap material from plantations which they have in a huge amount there. These plantations are often manured with inorganic fertilizers, treated with pesticides and harvested with machines. At the same time, the Chinese do not spare expensive material for the production of good shengs.
Here in Thailand there are no plantations of Assam, we have only old endemic trees to make both kinds of pu-erhs, shou and sheng. That is why they cost the same price - ripe puer cannot be cheaper than raw when they are made from the same material.
Customer Reviews
Igor Emelyanow,
05/12/2025
“A very interesting tea. Date and cashew, a touch of dark-chocolate bitterness, and by the third or fourth infusion a creamy toffee note appears in the aroma, with red berries lingering in the background....”
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boychik2989,
05/12/2025
“Clean clean clean. It’s like a piece of dark chocolate with raspberries melting in your mouth. I don’t remember any other shou with such a profile. It went thru so many steeps that I lost count.
The great calming energy sent me into an emergency evening nap. A little too late for naps and too early for bedtime, but thankfully it didn’t mess up my ...”
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Tihon,
16/11/2025
“My favorite everyday basic shu pu-erh. In terms of price–quality ratio, it’s the best. A great flavor with a clearly pronounced chen xiang (aged aroma). Slightly sweet, overall very tasty. It handles multiple infusions really well. You can brew it as strong as you like—just like the 2006 shu, it’s almost impossible to overbrew.
I love drinking i...”
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