pu-erh of the day. Sheng or Shou
2004 Yang Qing Hao “Te Ji Pin” Raw 500g
This is a very good tea and an excellent example of YQH quality productions. It is an authentic single origin Yiwu gushu. This is the first of the 2004 season’s premium Yiwu harvest – a Pre-Qing Ming or Yu Qian tea. Nice whole leaves. Fair amount with stems attached to one or two whole leaves. Sweet, smooth and silky with a very balanced taste and no astringency detected at all. It is worth noting that there is a blend of tobacco and old leather sweetness throughout the session (albeit more dominant in the early sessions). Definite sense of chaqi hitting by the 3rd cup. Overall this tea yields a more delicate, light tasting soup (i.e., not thick) – very appealing and enjoyable to me but not a complex heavyweight. Since the tea is on the lighter side, you can push it without fear. On one steeping, I intentionally used half the water and it still produced a delicious cup which was definitely thicker than the previous cups. A final comment on the tea’s longevity – this is an impressively durable tea. I’ve steeped it 10 times now (during 2 sessions) and the leaves are not yet fully open and my longest steep time has been 15 seconds. These leaves have much to offer!
Yunnan Sourcing just announced a four day sale on ripe puerh, code ripe10 for 10% off.
Ordered a bunch of ripe cakes, got the 2015 Hui Run and the 1996 CNNP Green Mark Te Ji among others. Sampled the 1996 last order. It’s quite good.
2010 Hai Lang Hao “As You Like” Ripe. Good stuff. I’ll likely get it before I get the ttb, so I’ll throw some in there.
MR Mopar, if worst came to worst you could dry store a few cakes. I have only ono pumidor and no room for another so I use cardboard boxes.
Just put an order together from the China site – $40 shipping EMS? Much less for the 7-11 week shipping via surface. Do you all pay that much for shipping? Can’t get everything I want at the US site.
The only solution to keeping China site shipping reasonable is to keep your orders below about 1.4kg and use Express Mail Small Parcel, what he calls E Packet. It is almost as fast as EMS and almost as cheap as surface. Has a total weight limit of 2 kg though including packaging. This time I went with EMS. As I had a really big order I paid around $75 for shipping. If I wanted to wait 12 weeks I could have saved about $40.
i keep my orders small to have the option of small parcel express service which is $18 max i believe. i use my loyalty points so it all even out. this option gets me a package in 10 days
sometimes i order from both sites. i get it faster and keep the order from China smaller that affects overall weight. it may come out cheaper this way. you have to play with both carts ;)
Whats up with misty peaks? Cant get on their website.
They have some sort of big announcement coming tomorrow. Their website is down until then.
I don’t think they sell samples but if you ask Nicholas for a sample of tea he might just send you one.
Thank you, yeah I tried a sample of one of their teas and wanted to try another. good idea, Ill send them a message instead of waiting. thank you
Whispering Pines 2013 Ontario 1357 Shou. Gone through 12 grams today and still going strong!
Did anyone try this one?
http://yunnansourcing.com/en/2015/3532-2015-yunnan-sourcing-yang-luo-han-ripe-pu-erh-tea-cake.html
Today I drank an excellent ripe from Yunnan Sourcing, the 2015 Yunnan Sourcing “Yang Luo Han” Ripe Puerh Tea. This had a lot of fermentation flavor to it but the taste was clean to me. I did not get any fishy notes but then again I tend not to notice them. There was a fair amount of bitterness early on mixed with sweetness from the start. The bitterness steeped out after a few steepings. It was quite think in the mouthfeel you could say, it had a dark rich taste to it early on. Oveerall this was an excellent puerh that developed notes of cocoa or chocolate as well as fruity notes later on. It will be interesting to see how this ages.
Taking a break from YQH aged sheng samples to get to some of my Chawangshop samples, because I’ve been really curious about them and it was my first CS order. Today I drank some 2015 Chawangpu Hekai Gushu Raw and enjoyed it very much. At $36 for a 200g cake, I will likely add one of these cakes to my next CS order.
Just purchased one of those myself a couple days ago. Good cheap cake to satisfy my occasional young sheng cravings
How you liking the YQH so far?
I’ll also add that if you still want to buy the Hekai after drinking all that YQH it must be a very decent tea!
I love all the YQH I’ve tried so far, and right now my favorite is (thankfully) one of the more affordable ones, the Tsang Liu. I have several more to try though. I know the deadline for the group buy is the 7th, but I’m not ready yet. It’s hard to make a decision after drinking a tea only one time, and I have several I haven’t even tried yet. For me, certain teas are instant “must have/love” but for these I just feel like I need more time. I think b/c these are my first aged shengs, I’m a little out of my depth. And they are more $ than I’m used to spending on tea, so I’m being more cautious because I’ll probably only get one cake. Hopefully there will be another buy in December or January.
There’s going to be a group order in December with prices still the same.
I’m sure you can get the teas later but prices will be going up in January. I believe the TsangLiu is going up to $195. A bit more expensive but not ridiculous.
What else did Emmett send ya?
He sent the 05 tsang liu, 05 YiWuChaWang, 07 qizhong, 07 JinTuo, 2011 bulang, and the 06 chi hsiang gushu chawang. Grill also sent me the Tejipin. So far I’ve tried the gushu chawang, the tejipin, and the tsang liu. Most notable about the gushu was just this crazy mouthfeel that I’ve never experienced before. The tejipin was very calming, as was the tsang, but the tsang was milder to me and not at all bitter, which I really liked. It actually kind of reminded me of Bosch a little. The tsang was also the first time I’ve ever had a tea that made me salivate like crazy, even like two hours later!
Thanks for notes :).
Yes my friend described the 05 Chawang as having a velvety mouthfeel. Very smooth tea (although I guess they all are).
I’m a fan of both those 2007 productions, a little moreso than the 2005s. They’re a bit more expensive though.
Haven’t tried ChiHsiang or Tejipin. Got a sample of the ChiHsiang calling me tomorrow though..
Enjoying the 05 Chawang right now. It’s fantastic. I am enjoying the YQH reviews btw, I felt like I was drinking tea right there with you. “Why yes James, there is an herbal sweetness…” (I’m a little tea buzzed right now)
Had a second session with the 1996 CNNP “Green mark Te Ji” Ripe Puerh Tea from Yunnan Sourcing. Despite its age, I feel I found a very small amount of fermentation flavor in this tea, just barely perceptible. There was not much storage taste to this tea despite its age, just a little that went away after a couple of steeps. I find the Yunnan Sourcing description of the notes in this tea to be fairly accurate cacao, fruit and spice. I suspect the spicy note, which was not too prevalent is a storage note but am unsure. This was an excellent tea. As Scott just put ripe tea on sale I have a bing of this tea coming to me. It is up there with the 1998 White Tuo for me as an aged ripe whose source I trust. I don’t doubt the age of this tea whereas many aged teas advertised really can’t be trusted. This was a very tasty tea. I steeped it twelve times and stopped only because of the caffeine factor involved. It would have definitely gone a few more steeps.
Just finished a session with the 2005 Rocket Yiwu. This is a good example of an aged sheng, both the color of the liquid and the taste scream aged sheng. I found strong notes of bamboo, spice and wet wood. There is a lot a wet storage taste to this tea. After having finished it I am feeling the qi of this tea, it’s definitely got some. I didn’t really like this one. I often don’t like aged teas so that didn’t really surprise me. It was an experience though. Thanks to White2Tea for including it in the Puerh Tea TTB.
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