White 2 Tea

It’s a pretty scrappy looking cake, but the soup it produces is great. The leaves are ridiculously long and many have difficulty fitting into my gaiwan. The compression is so loose that enough leaves for a session can be gathered from the cake just by lifting it and prodding the sides a bit, causing dried leaves to fall onto the wrapper like raindrops. And it’s aroma is extremely pungent. The time spent bent over the cake collecting leaves caused my face to become flushed and my eyes slightly irritated. It smells very smoky and aggressive.

The strength of the aroma carries over to the wet leaves and soup, although the profile changes somewhat. The tobacco smoke remains to some extent, but a certain caramelized fruitiness and faint ginger quality emerges. The mouthfeel is as burly as the scent.

The opening is quick and somewhat dull, with rough, dark sweetness. It rapidly develops into something stronger with average complexity and great depth of character. It lingers expectedly, gradually evolving into a spicy-cool finish in the throat. The coolness is intense and lasts quite some time. The aftertaste is cool and moist, with a kind of sticky sweetness, but my body is warm. The tea is stimulating, but only slightly so. Further steeps add a nice throaty bitterness and more fruity flavors, treading farther from the initial smokiness found in the aroma.

The second time I tasted this I actually measured the amount of leaves I used (6 g/100 mL), but my results were less intense and lighter in depth than the first time. I had used more leaves from the edge of the cake, which are much longer than those closer to the center and those within the body of the cake, and are attached to even longer stems. I guess I’ll have to pay more attention to what parts of this eclectic blend I’m using for each session in the future.

Very sweet and satisfying. This tea is not very pungent and might be a good introduction to puerh.

Very good value :) A lot going, complex and reminds me a little of xiaguan but without the smoke and more bitterness

I want to age this tea more, but it seems very promising :)

Super strong but also complex!

My sample arrived two days ago and WOWEE was this some good tea. Out of the 5 sites i ordered from, this is without a doubt my favorite tea, and cheaper than some of the others i bought

I found the tea after reading this review

http://half-dipper.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/2012-ruiyuan-laoshucha.html

He says it better than i can – so read his notes!

This tea has a very complex flavor. It’s smokey, sweet, and slightly fruit/prune-like. The raw tea smells very smokey and the liquor smells like campfire and cake.

I steeped 9 grams of this tea in a 4 oz. gaiwan. The tea was stronger and more flavorful than when I tried steeping 4 grams, but it’s still too astringent for me and I still don’t like the flavor much. This one isn’t my cup of tea.

This time I steeped about 6 grams in a 4 oz. gaiwan. I did a 10 second rinse and about 20 seconds for each steeping.

The flavor had more smoke and less grass in than I remember. This is still my least favorite pu erh I’ve tried so far.

I found this tea boring. The little flavor it has just reminds me of grass. I used 4 grams for a 4 oz. gaiwan. I may try using more tea next time.

This tea is very smooth and has a very rich flavor. I wish the flavor was a little stronger. I think this would be a very good introductory pu erh.

I used about 3 grams for a 3 oz. brew. I may try using about 6 grams next time.