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    A round tea cake wrapped in illustrated paper packaging, featuring a panda sitting in a grassy field with hot air balloons and the text 'up and away' and 'HUGO TEA', photographed on a plain gray background.
    A top-down view of a white ceramic cup filled with amber-colored tea, set against a solid gray background.
    A round compressed cake of loose-leaf tea, likely Pu'er, showing a textured blend of dark brown, olive green, and light tan leaves, photographed from directly above on a neutral gray background.
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    Up & Away

    100 Gram Tea Cake

    TASTING NOTES:
    SCUPPERNONG GRAPE | WALNUT | CONFECTIONER SUGAR

    Smooth and structured with a high, sugared finish. UP & AWAY is a pressed cake of 2026 spring Gedeng black tea, warm and harmonious, blended with 2026 spring Banzhang sun-dried white tea, deep and naturally sweet. A collaboration with Black & White Coffee Roasters.

    $35.00

    UP & AWAY is a collaboration with Black & White Coffee Roasters. It's a half black, half white pressed (get it?) tea cake of Gedeng black tea and Banzhang white tea, made by Xiaohui Quan inXishuangbanna, Yunnan.

    The black tea comes from Gedeng Mountain, one of the six ancient tea mountains east of the Lancang river. It's a medium-leaf ecological tea, fully oxidized to a deep, comforting warmth, smooth and harmonious with a steady backbone. The white tea is a different story: large-leaf Banzhang material, sun-dried and left raw and natural. It brings structural depth and a high, lasting sweetness to the finish.

    The two are pressed into one cake by Xiaohui Quan, known to his team as "Brother Quan." He's a 35-year veteran of old-world Yunnan tea making who has spent his career making once-luxury teas accessible. The black tea anchors the cup, and the white tea lifts it. In the cup you'll find scuppernong grape, walnut and clover, and a clean confectioner sugar finish that lingers.

    UP & AWAY comes as a 100 gram compressed disc of tea, a format with roots in Yunnan going back over a thousand years, originally designed for transport along the Tea Horse Road. To brew it, break off a portion (about 5 grams) using a tea knife. If you don’t have a tea knife, a butter knife, the back of a spoon, or any thin tool you can wedge into the edge of the cake will work. The leaves are intact and will open fully in hot water. Once broken off, brew it just like any loose leaf tea.

    VINTAGE — Spring '26

    STYLE — Black & white tea cake (blend)
    CULTIVAR — Gedeng medium-leaf (black) / Banzhang large-leaf (white)

    REGION — Gedeng and Banzhang, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China

    LOCALE — Xindi / Quanji Chenxiang

    ELEVATION—1400 m.

    PRODUCER — Xiaohui Quan


    STEEPING PARAMETERS

    (use freshly boiled spring water)

    modern, large format
     [300 ml+ vessel —BOLI, large teapot]
     4 grams — 200°F (93°C) — 2 minutes

    traditional, small format
     [150 ml- vessel —gaiwan, small teapot]
     6 grams — 200°F (93°C) — 30 seconds
     (rinse recommended)

    * 5 seconds each additional steep

     

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