pu-erh of the day. Sheng or Shou
When do pu-erh suppliers typically announce their Black-Friday/Cyber-Monday sales? Thanks!
2011 Menghai Lao Cha Tou gifted several years ago by the originator of this 10 year old topic, mrmopar. What a pleasure to meet and drink tea with him back then. I hope we can meet again.
Good tea. Very clear, flavorful, smooth. Getting some aged TCM spicy notes to go with the tobacco, bread dough, wet autumn leaves and root beer. So compressed I’ll probably be nursing the for pot 3 days.
Two nights in a row of 2013 Chen Sheng Hao Na Ka sheng — from mrmopar 5 years ago? Hope you’re well tea friend.
Plastic baggie and California storage ain’t no thing to this tea. Champ leaf. Starts moderately sweet, then quickly moves astringent with the second cup. That softens with the next 8 or so steeps as cactus bitters prickle my tastebuds. Bittersweet throat. Ends gently sweet with the long steeps. The sheng that end sweet make it feel like a complete experience. Only issue is it’s a bit thin some pours. I have gotten ~2 liters of tea with 7 grams of leaf.
This had been humid-stored before it landed in my cupboard. Wet, decaying wood and some rain-filled ashtray notes. Sounds notsogood, but if you know what you’re getting into, it might be a welcome flavor. This tea pairs well with laying down :)
Again, tonight. Last of the sample. Even though it’s very good, it’s not a puerh I feel compelled to seek out but it is a pleasure to be acquainted with. A sample from another year might be stashed in one of these crocks.
I’d love to try this in another 10 years.
Finished a sample of this tea from my own dry storage. Quite different compared to the one that was more humid-stored from mrmopar. Depth and punch are similar but my own is notably greener, more like yerba mate — slight smoke and moderate alkaline savoriness with a strong herbaceous hay-tobacco note, but topped off with a heap of pollen, a chunk of beeswax, and later, a spoonful of apricot jam.
2004 Hai Lang Hao Ba Ma Gong Chun sheng, another from mrmopar years back. Is it really 2004 or is it the 2010 that’s listed in the Steepster database?
What lies beyond this thick, alkaline, creamy and caramel opening? Already feeling relaxed with the first cup.
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