Five vintages, one careful split
Building a coherent five-decade tasting box means starting with cakes whose provenance actually holds up, and that’s the part of the job Sandry Law’s Kunming station exists for. Each vintage in this box, 1998, 2001, 2005, 2010, and 2014, came from a different single cake already carrying documented storage history; Sandry’s team split 40g from each, verifying compression, leaf grade, and aroma against the paperwork before anything went in the box.
The range tells its own story without embellishment. The 1998 comes from old arbor material with a soft, honeyed character that has deepened into something medicinal and rich over 27 years. The 2001 shows a smokier, more assertive profile mellowing into plum-like elegance. The 2005, 2010, and 2014 fill the mid-range, tracing the shift from bright floral notes toward warming wood and earth.
This is not a themed narrative dressed up as a product; it’s five real cakes, verified and split by the same station that handles every sample set on this shop, put side by side so you can taste three decades of storage in a single sitting.