Lancang Ancient Tea (瀾滄古茶)

Lancang Ancient Tea was re-established in 1996 on the foundation of the Lancang County Ancient Tea Mountain Jingmai Tea Factory, a state operation dating to 1966, and it still presses its raw and ripe pu'er near Jingmai Mountain, in Yunnan's Lancang Lahu Autonomous County. The mountain's tea forest - cultivated for more than 1,300 years and confirmed by a 1997 academic symposium as land the Bulang people were among the first to plant - was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in September 2023 as the Cultural Landscape of Old Tea Forests of Jingmai Mountain, giving the region a formal recognition the company's own marketing had leaned on for years beforehand. The house has kept a raw-material reserve since 1988, now holding roughly 4,000 tons, and it sources current harvests through partnerships with more than 100 tea cooperatives spread across Yunnan's three major pu'er-producing regions rather than relying on a single estate. Its range runs from straight raw and ripe pu'er cakes to tangerine-pu'er blends - pu'er packed inside a hollowed mandarin peel, a format built for aging as much as everyday drinking - alongside white and black teas from the same base. Beyond the Lancang production site, the company keeps a retail counter at Hong Kong's Peninsula Centre in Tsim Sha Tsui, open six days a week, putting UNESCO-listed mountain leaf within reach of a shopping-district storefront.