pu-erh of the day. Sheng or Shou

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curlygc said

After watching my football team play another 90-minute hair-raising heart palpitation-inducing draw, I am mellowing out with a nice 2014 Bulang Tribute sheng from CL. The house is quiet. The tea is sweet. Life is good.

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Grill said

2010 Autumn Hai Lang Hao Yi Shan Mo from yunnan sourcing. 8 grams in my yixing. Pretty typical Yiwu tea. Not quite as thick and oily as some, nice floral buttery flavors going on. Still some bitterness but that’s to be expected of a only 5 year old dry stored pu. Had that good Yiwu qi of relaxation for the first 5 or so steeps. Flavor levels out after about the same and seems like it could go on for a while, I’m a good 10 plus in already. If the early merits of this tea would have held on longer I would have been really impressed but in the end they didn’t. Still a good tea and if it was still around I’d say buy a sample to try but not imo, worth buying a cake of for the price it was.

mrmopar said

I find most Yiwu a bit soft for me. Although I do have some aging away. I like tea with a bite to it.

Grill said

Most of the older Yiwu’s I’ve tried, while that isn’t a lot, have seem to gone flat. I got one from 2002 I’m going to try today and see how I like it. I’m a huge fan of good young Yiwu area puerh though. Maybe because it doesn’t bite like some of the MengHai region teas do and I absolutely love the way it makes you feel.

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AllanK said

Today I drank the 2015 Colbert Holland 1945 by White2Tea. Thank you Boychik for this sample. This was a strong and punchy sheng. I put it through fourteen steeps in a 50ml gaiwan. There was a strong bitterness in the early steeps. This was not so much the apricoty sheng but a potent one. It had I think a strong cha qi. I am feeling an effect from this tea after putting it through 14 steeps. This is one I would consider buying to age.

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Rich select said

Today I drank 2004 Shu Tuocha by pu-erh.sk
This is an excellent little number from pu-er.sk. It is very similar to the famed 9016 from 1995, also from the same purveyor, only it costs about one tenth as much. It is stout, slightly musty in the best way, and tastes of burnt coffee. It is hearty, I got close to 10 steeps of dark coffee brew, and could have gotten a bunch more that were light but flavorful. I gave up before the tea did. There is a 2003 version which I will try next.

All in all, it lacks some of the depth and complexity of the 9016, but it is a nice little gem. I just checked the website and the 9016 is no longer there. Looks like I got one of the last ones. Lucky me! Anyway, these are well priced tuos that are interesting and good.

boychik said

i like this one. i stopped after brewing it for 3 days.

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Grill said

Couple of shengs from 2002, Yong Pin Hao Yiwu from yunnan sourcing and the white whale from White2tea. Couldn’t find more opposite teas if you tried. The yiwu was very dry stored. Liquor is still a goldish color with no hints of orange yet. Cake is loosely compressed and the leaves have a youngish look to them. Taste is super soft and sweet, touch floral with lots of honey and grape. Body starts out pretty thick and slowly thins out with each steeping, flavor pretty much does the same.

The white whale is a small tightly compressed brick. Dry leaf is small and chopped up with plenty of stick and even a rock in it. Strong scents of camphor, pine and smoke that carry over into the taste as well. Where the Yiwu was delicate and soft this is strong and punchy. Liquor is amber and deep maybe even burnt orange. Decently thick which is a nice surprise and somewhat coating while not super long lasting. Not sure how much strength this one will have as I’m still drinking it now. About 6 steeps in now and the flavor is still very strong and I starting to get some good feeling deep in my throat which is always a good sign. I was excited when I saw this go back up for sale since there was so much hype around this tea and now I got the opportunity to try it

Yang-chu said

Yang Pin Hao (ahem)

Grill said

Edited! Thank you. Missed that somehow

boychik said
Grill said

Yes. I liked it but I’m not sure if it something I’d buy a cake of. Just so much good Yiwu out there in that price range. I see Cywn is selling a cake of it for 190 which makes it a much harder choice, thats a great price. I can send you some of the sample I have left if your interested. I re edited my post back to yong

boychik said

Thanks so much for the offer. I have to see my spreadsheet, i might have it

Grill said

Ok. If you do I got other goodies including more Chen yuan hao stuffs

boychik said

Awesome, thanks ;)

Yang-chu said

My bad it IS yong "永“ not the renowned "杨“。 My bad.

Grill said

It’s ok Yang-chu we still love you ;)

Yang-chu said

or is that Yong-chu… hahahaha.

boychik said

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JC said

I was going to put an update note for the 2012 Ruiyuan NanNuo, but I just realized I never uploaded the notes from when I first bought it lol. I’ll look for those notes and properly load the original then the updated notes of year and a few months in my storage.

In summary, the tea is coming along well. The notes haven’t changed much. I do see some changes in the tea liquor color (a bit deeper color), and the overall harshness is starting to mellow (still there though). The biggest change is the huigan is faster and lingers more than I remember. Not a complex Sheng, but I like it.

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Cwyn said

Drinking more of my 2015 Chawangshop Hekai Gushu cake. This has been my summer drinker and I’m now halfway done with the 200g cake. Jakub T just reviewed this tea along with the Mengsong, but I wondered if he mixed up the notes. He called the Hekai bitter and got a stomach ache, and the Mengsong sweet. But I’ve been drinking the Hekai all summer, and it is sweet whereas my Mengsong is absolutely undrinkable, it is so bitter. Both teas have the same wrapper and only differ in two stylized simplified characters. I double checked that I’m drinking down the Hekai and I definitely am. It is a mostly bud tea compared to the usual inexpensive cake.

I find this tea really clean and fresh green with only a mild bitterness in the first couple steeps. The remaining steeps taste like a green tea, somewhat vegetal and spinachy. I could pack the gaiwan and get it more bitter, but that is just an excessive leaf amount for what I need. 6-8g per 100ml is my usual dose. I have to watch these leaves in hot weather, because they are new I can only go two days on steeping. But I love this cake, easy to drink and only $36.

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Grill said

2001 7542 P.O. from White2tea. Notes here https://instagram.com/p/7HDrOBNY4j/?taken-by=grill__

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curlygc said

~POUNDCAKE~ ooooh mmm thud

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Grill said

2004 Private Order brick from Chawangshop. Unknown manufacturer. MengHai material(which is pretty vague). Tea was definitely humid stored early and then moved to something drier. Brick is super compressed to the point of having to lean on the pick while the brick is on edge just break some off. Tea opens up with with strong tastes of chocolate, good espresso and a touch of minty camphory goodness, kind of reminds me of an Andes after dinner mint. Taste remains mostly the same throughout the session becoming lighter as I progress through the steeps. Later steeps have some nice fruitiness coming in as the chocolatey flavor fades. In pure taste this tea in among the very best of puerhs I’ve tried, I could drink this by the gallon. Body isn’t overly thick but the tea is smooth and creamy. All the taste is front of the mouth, no real deep throat taste or action. Little to no qi to speak of either which is fine for a tea of this price, the taste alone makes this worth it to me. Glad to have a whole brick of this now and might even purchase more in the future

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