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This tea is known as “Ji Feng Yuan,” although it is actually part of the Heng Feng Yuan series. The discrepancy arises from a printing error in which the Chinese character “Heng” was mistakenly printed as “Ji.”
Produced by ChangTai Tea Factory in 2003 as a 400g raw (sheng) puerh cake under the Heng Feng Yuan line. After more than two decades of aging in Guangzhou’s natural environment, the tea has developed a mature, settled character typical of early-2000s ChangTai mid-tier productions under southern natural storage.
The dry leaf shows the expected darkening and compression of its age. The liquor is clear with an amber to light reddish hue. The taste is mellow and rounded, with softened bitterness and astringency giving way to gentle sweetness and aged woody notes. Huigan is present and steady. The overall impression is smooth and approachable rather than aggressive, consistent with prolonged Guangzhou natural storage.
Suitable for daily drinking or as an accessible example of early ChangTai production from this series.
