Puer is still an acquired taste. Many first time drinkers describe it as “basement bilgewater” … or worse. When I was younger I thought Puer was the “smelly tea”. Like durian, stinky tofu & blue cheese, I could not understand what the fuss was all about.But now I understand the romance of Puer. Puer is a tea that stands apart, with all the romance & beauty of Yunnan, pressed into unique & heavy cakes that you can collect & age. Puer is a tea that is all about transformation & becoming, offering something new with each year that passes. A tea that can accompany you for decades - wrapped in time, steeped in history, infused with life’s vitality & decay. What a thrill to drink tea from before your time, a tea produced in your childhood, a tea bought & stored to celebrate the birth of your child - ancient tea cakes that need to be reawakened from their slumber before drinking. Puer is truly a tea worthy of treasure hoards & speculative asset bubbles.