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drank 2015 Smooch by White 2 Tea
212 tasting notes

It came together with a several other mini-puerh tuos in a nondescript paper with a little picture of lips. It certainly smelled like a raw puerh but it took me some travel acrooss W2T to figure out it was the 2015 Smooch.

It has a very pleasant aroma for a raw puerh with the sourness augmented by some leafy and sweet notes. The taste is tricky: it is easy to oversteep and then it tastes a bit like vomit but in a good way. Since I am not a big fan of even a nicer tasting vomit I switched to very short infusions in a gaiwan (10-20 secs) and it revealed a powerful puerh sourness together with some notes of black currant leaves, raspberry, grasses, orange and spices.

It is way more complex than typical low-cost raw puerhs I used to get from Upton Tea. You can get many resteeps out of it and a long, long lingering aftertaste. So far it has been the best raw puerh I tasted.

Flavors: Black Currant, Grass, Orange, Sour, Spices

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90 or more – a very good/excellent tea, I can see myself ordering it again.

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