pu-erh of the day. Sheng or Shou
Oh wow… New experiences… 2002 Wild Rose Blended Pu erh. This is a completely new beast to any Pu I have experienced so far. It is like leather and miso and flowers and sushi all at once. I almost feel like it is a meal rather than a drink. It has a lingering sweet after taste. Wow. What a unique shou. The rose is there but not overpowering the tea, rather it is merely one note of a harmonious song. The packaging was so cute too… All be it a bit fragile.
Shuush! That is our little secret until I am able to stock up. I think this might be a chance to use the Chinese Jar my mom used to decorate my house… and it’s decently large :P
I like to mix in a few rose petals with my house blend, Hai-lang Hao’s Thick Brick (Bulang purchased through YS) on occasion.
Rose is considered a beauty tea. I just posted another blog on the subject here. http://universotea.com/content/puer-and-rose
I have to thank everyone in this thread who recommended Menghai’s Song of Tse Chi. I’ve been sipping on it constantly since I received it a few weeks ago, and I am absolutely in love. Beautifully smooth and chocolatey. Great price to boot.
Berylleb on eBay. Great seller with a few size options http://www.ebay.com/itm/2008-Yunnan-Menghai-Dayi-Song-of-Chi-Tse-Ripe-Pu-er-Tea-Free-Shipping-/321336188253?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&var=&hash=item4ad1211d5d
Still “shenging” at 1am on 2007 Yi Shan Purple Bud.
It just keeps giving this beautiful sweet golden nectar and I’m in awe…
Such an inexpensive cake for its age and its complexity…I’m getting more before they sell out!
Shu this morning – verdant 2006 fuxiang reserve. I am really hoping to enjoy this brew – I have yet to enjoy a shu the way I do other teas.
2010 LangHe Yu Pin Ripe
Lang He Tea Factory is known for producing fine ripe puerh. Light fermentation which results in it being free of that fishy flavor common in more heavily fermented shu. This is one of the finest Lang He products I have tasted. Clean, smooth and sweet with very high purity of flavor. The 2010 Tea Expo award winner is built upon a foundation of high quality material and, as a result, it offers high quality flavorful sips throughout the session. Creamy chocolate notes frequently reveal themselves. This is an easy drinking tea and the moderate price makes it a good candidate for daily drinking. A bit difficult to find for I’ve not seen it listed anywhere except Tea Urchin.
Yes, it’s v. good, but I think their 7599 has an even tastier milk chocolate effect. Langhe’s 2006 Tribute Gold Brick is their most sought after. It won the title Tea King at a big time competition, I guess a decade ago now.
I have their 2008 Peacock Tribute, which has a distinctive orange peel aftertaste.
I am also enjoying the 2008 Menghai Song of Tse Chi. Silky and comforting on this cool rainy day. Good shou and snuggly puppy is a good way to spend this afternoon.
Breaking out my sample of Yunnan Sourcing 2013 Mang Fei sheng, this is the spring version I think. Damn is this good, smells amazing, brews so clean and pure, and really awesome balanced Qi, neither pumped up energizing nor drowsily narcotic, just sort of brain melting, mind cleansing, everything around you flowing away like the tea slipping down your throat.
I spent time yesterday with the 2005 Six Famous Tea Mountain Bangwei Raw.
This 2005 Bangwei is definitely not the 2012 Bangwei from Essence of Tea which I thoroughly enjoyed with its honey-sweetness. That said, it does have possibilities for an interesting tea session. The dry leaves offer a light smoky scent. Characteristic of factory productions, there is a mixture of whole leaves with stems and pieces. Two quick 5 second rinses and I left the leaf to sit in the yixing for about an hour. I do not detect any smoke in the wet leaf and the first sips are thick in the mouth – not sweet but not too bitter either, more a bittersweet. It has a definite mouth-watering characteristic. As I move through multiple steepings, the taste becomes what I would describe as bitter-sour and then sweet. At the end of the tea session, I sense a relaxing effect and a cooling sensation in the mouth and throat. It took me awhile to “warm up” to this tea but I must report that I really enjoy it.
Does Anyone know anything about this tea. I was given a sample of it without much information. http://www.goldencoastteaclub.com/show_detail.php?id=39
http://www.white2tea.com/tea-shop/2005-gaoshan-qingbing/
This looks similar from my perspective.
yyz it may be similar to this one.
http://www.finepuer.com/product/2006-cnnp-yiwu-wild-arbor-tea-cake-357g
I did look at their site pricing seems good but some of the older stuff not stored well…We all know about that.
FYI, nearly all puerh is high mountain. Most of the land usable for growing puerh in Yunnan is above 4-5,000 feet. Now that I think about it low altitude puerh would be pretty rare.
This is a knockoff of the famous Big Green Tree cake – these are very common and can be anything really. The original (1999-2002 IIRC) Big Green Tree cakes were made of high quality Yiwu materials by Menghai tea factory. They fetch very high prices on the market (USD$1000+). Due to the fame and high price of the original cakes the wrapper is commonly used for unrelated cakes (tiepai), such as all of the previous ones that were posted.
Glad to see so many people talking about this tea I myself started 2 yrs ago a big coffee drinker wanted something different saw it on dr oz show gave it a try now I have 200 cakes most cakes are 15 to 20 yrs old raw one ripe I prefer ripe most of time reminds me like coffee also have about 10 gongfu tea sets really would like to go to China to experience it first hand
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