pu-erh of the day. Sheng or Shou
In the last few days I’ve been sampling a few shengs but I didn’t keep very good notes.
1. 2005 Teji Tuo from the White2Tea monthly club:
This is my second session with this tea and it’s wonderful! The dry leaf smells great and it tastes just as good. With short steeps a really nice creamy woodyness comes out in the middle steepings that I enjoyed a lot. I don’t have much experience with non-young puerh but this strikes me as an example of successful storage and aging. I’ll likely drink this up as I’m not sure it’ll age into something much better with my current storage. What do others think about aging this longer?
2.2014 Yunnan Sourcing Qing Mei Shan old arbor Pu-erh tea cake:
Didn’t write anything while drinking it but I remember it had a pleasant sweet aftertaste. It was a good but I don’t think I’ll be getting a cake of it.
Today I’m drinking a cheap ripe I bought two years ago and forgot about in my Yixing container, the 2012 Yongming “Long Xin Tian Xia” Ripe Puerh Tea. In all honesty this tea is better than it has a right to be. While it is not among the very best ripe I have drank it is surprisingly good. It’s got a lot of fermentation taste left but that taste is not of the unpleasant sort. It is very sweet. This definitely qualifies as a daily drinker category, not phenomenal but very good for the price involved. I put in another order to pu-erhtea.com last night and I almost wish I had ordered another one of these. To be honest I bought this cake because it had a very cool wrapper with a dragon on the cover.
Agreed, I love the symbolism on there. I have a feeling the grand-son will get one as well.
Would have bought the 2015 Yunnan Sourcing Impression but I needed to keep my order down below 2 kg for e packet shipping. So much cheaper than EMS.
also obvious is w2t, some might not like the art but you cant deny they stretch the boundaries of how tea should be presented.
Maybe a tea art thread for all the best tea art?
Id love to as well! Always design my own things, I saw there was a YS competition i think?
I think Yunnan Sourcing has done art competitions for the past couple of Lunar New Years.
As a professional I don’t enter art contests, but I’d be happy to be hired to do freelance design work in exchange for good tea! ;)
Having Yunnan Sourcing’s Zao Qiao Di village sheng.
I am finally getting to pull this one out after getting a few weeks ago.
I got 10 grams out and rinsed in the gaiwan to start with. The brew is a light gold and the aromatics of this is really nice. It seems to have a lot of aroma to it.
It has a semi thick viscosity to it that hits the front and middle of the tongue with hints of bitter that drifts into sweet at the back of the tongue. I can totally get the green tomato in this as others have noted. This is a big tossup of activity when you drink it. The brew seems to give some of the mouth tingle in there as well.
Another small village that we are lucky to drink from their productions.
Flavors: Bitter, Sweet, Tangy, Thick
09 Long Yuan Hao, Qing Dynastic Beauty Brick, 250g. ripe brick with some stems and stuff. Tastes like a brownie and the taste just lingers and lingers in the mouth. Still quite tannic, quick release, clear infusions. I’ve had 3 pots. I don’t recall ever having my ears feel hot.
Up early because I couldn’t sleep. Thought I would try the 2002 Smoky Lee from Pu-erh.sk. This tea has a reputation for being brutally smoky. While it was smoky I didn’t find it brutal. It was also sweet underneath the smoke and very smooth. A bit of a fruityness in steep eight I notice. I only steeped it eight times. This was quite good but very different.
2005 Six Famous Tea Mountains (Liu Da Chashan) “Jinggu Shan” Raw
This is a factory production (part of a six mountain series with each cake containing 100% material from the well-known named mountain) which I have had carefully stored for over two years. Now it has had 10+ years to develop into something worthwhile. Smooth and mellow; a bit fruity with a deep sweetness; and a decent cooling sensation. I quite enjoyed my time with it yesterday!
For anyone who didn’t notice, Yunnan Sourcing and Taiwan Sourcing are having a sale. I believe the code is 10off.
Revisiting my 2009 CNNP 7572 ripe. Have had it 7 years now, been broken up in a crock for almost 2 years. My sister wants me to send her more shou puerh, so I’m debating what to send. She is a puerh noob so I don’t want to send her anything too funky. Because of her health conditions, she must have ripe teas.
Broke off a piece of the bung hole. I mean beeng hole. The tea brew is now brown rather than red, still a bit astringent with some fermentation flavor. A couple more years and this will be perfect.
Maybe I’ll send some Lao cha Tou nuggets and some oolong.
Today I delved into my Puerhshop order with the 2005 Tiandiren Ripen Puerh Tea Cake. This tea started out a little unpleasant with the fermentation taste. It however lost the unpleasant taste quickly and the fermentation taste completely a little after that. It started out a little bittersweet but quickly became more sweet than bitter. In the end this was a bargain cake with nice notes of chocolate and in my estimate dates. If you can get past the first two steeps with this tea it is pretty decent. It was a bargain at only $24. It had not cleared as much as it seems a 2005 ripe should have cleared though.
A couple of weeks ago I got myself a sample of 2002 Yong Pin Hao “Red Yi Wu Zheng Shan” Raw Pu-erh from Yunnan Sourcing. I have now separated the leaves nicely and will be trying this tea tomorrow. Already a very nice aroma from the dry leaves.
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