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Spring 2023 harvest.
Brewed western style, lightly sweetened.
Wet tea leaves give off a sweet tangy red fruit and dark chocolate aroma, akin to a nice red wine.
Tea tastes of dried red fruits, cranberry, red apple, malt and cacao, with a pleasant hint of tannins. It’s very smooth, not too dark or bitter. There’re hints of cinnamon, pear and freshly baked wheat bread in the background, and a nice, slightly dry lingering finish.
I’ll have to update this review as I experiment with time, temperature and method. This tea was medium-light in body, though I’m sure with hotter water and more time it could be heavier and more tannic.
Overall a delicious tea. I’m very fond of teas with a red fruit flavor and this delivers that in spades, balanced with gentler malt, pear and bread notes.
Flavors: Bread, Cacao, Cinnamon, Cranberry, Dark Chocolate, Fruity, Malt, Pear, Red Apple, Red Fruits, Tannin
Preparation
This is a great daily driver tea. It’s not offensive at all, the aroma is crisp and clean as is the taste. Decently long aftertaste of nice roastyness. Bitterness increases with each steep.
The brick is very dense and tightly pressed.
I got this as a free gift from Yunnan Sourcing during a promotion, so it was a really great price!
Flavors: Bittersweet, Cracker, Dark Chocolate, Roasty
Preparation
(Spring 2023) Faintly grapey, green plummy notes to the leaves, but doesn’t quite come through as much on the steep. In fact aroma is pretty mute, surprisingly. Palate is creamy, lactic, round & pleasing, with some floral echoes. Tried at 180 but resteeped at 195 for 2.5 mins and much better.
Ok. This is the first puerh that I can really get into… Dumping rinse of first steep was critical, and this is not too fishy. The tangerine definitely tempers the earth/dirt notes with some fruit. There is a fascination to the aromas. Like a real mycelial, loamy smell of freshly turned, decomposing wood chips. And it has decent smooth texture and body. Maybe my gateway puerh?
(Spring 2023 harvest) Mid deep amber roast. Some honeysuckle, gentle satisfying toasty notes. Brisk. Second steep and even cleaner florals- echo of honeysuckle, hydrangea, rose, jasmine. Ultimately very nicely structured, mid-roast and still somewhat green oolong palate.
from mrmopar several years ago
Two rinses with long rests. Good tea. Very clear, flavorful, smooth, mellow, alkaline turning slightly acidic. Wet pile fish broth on the nose but not in taste. Getting some aged TCM peppery notes to go with the tobacco, dark wood, bread dough, wet autumn leaves and root beer; hints of camphor and eggplant. So compressed I’ll probably be nursing the pot for 3 days.
Neutralizing feeling in the body. Not particularly warming or cooling or caffeinated. Balanced.
Flavors: Alkaline, Autumn Leaf Pile, Bread Dough, Camphor, Clear, Dark Wood, Eggplant, Fish Broth, Geosmin, Root Beer, Smooth, Tobacco, Traditional Chinese Medicine, White Pepper
Preparation
This tea has a lot of character, I can recommend it to anyone looking for a complex Mengku pu-erh without the hefty price tag associated to Bing Dao or some of the other more famous villages.
The aroma is really engaging – herbaceous, sweet, and grassy when dry and more fruity during the session.
The rinse is not so representative of the whole experience. It tastes a bit like sencha, with sweet, sour and grassy notes. The first proper infusion is then herbaceous with a very sweet and nutty profile. The mouthfeel is thick and very soft and creamy.
Later on, a lot of florals develop, including mild bitterness. Sometimes, drinking the tea reminds me of a summer meadows, which is slightly dried out. The aftertaste is very sweet and aromatic. It bring further notes of bread and barley.
Flavors: Bitter, Bread, Creamy, Dry Grass, Floral, Grain, Grass, Herbaceous, Meadow, Nutty, Soft, Sour, Sweet, Thick
Preparation
Superiore al resto dei bai mu dan già provati (teavivre e teaway), il sapore è sempre equilibrato, a differenza dei precedenti che risultavano inizialmente più aspri e pungenti. Olfatto sentori di frutta ed erbaceo, il sapore è un delicato sapore di frutta, delicato ma corposo
Gong fu cha method 95° | 100ml | Rinse + YunnanSourcing Brewing Times
Sono riuscito ad assaporare fino a 11 infusioni
Flavors: Floral, Fruity, Sweet, Thick