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Approximately 15-18 mini cakes (tuo) per 50g. Simply unwrap and drop one of these fresh and green single-serving sized cakes into a teapot or cup and let it infuse. Convenient, authentic and delicious.
The resulting cup is zesty and fresh with a faint hint of smokiness and warm apricot and peach finish.
I suppose just saying “friggin’ awesome” alone won’t quite cut it here. Well, how about “this had fruit-sweet notes to spare with a crisp earthy center”. Tea-isms for “badass”.
Full Review: http://www.teaviews.com/2010/12/07/review-jing-tea-2008-raw-puerh-mini-tuo-xiaguan-factory/
This is my first Raw mini tuo puerth so i’m very curious! Ordered this one a whole while ago so its time for a bit off experimenting on this snowy sunday evening!
I had a cooked mini tuo before from jing, and that one came out a very dark colored infusion. So i expected a same kind off color from this one! Boy was i wrong, the color off the infussion is pale, very pale almost like silver needles but a bit more green/yellow… i totally didn’t expect this! I was a bit shocked so i when’t back to the jing site to check out the brewing instructions, and i didn’t do anything wrong luckily!
Infused for 60 seconds with a first cleaning infusion off 5sec that i did discard. The tea almost as no smell to it, thats also totally different from the cooked tuo’s…
time for my first cup tasting, while very hot it tastes sweet maybe a little a tiny little bit smokey. Didn’t expect a puerth to taste sweet so thats a nice surprise, other reviews say it should taste fruity, i’m not so sure about that but i like the taste. Its way different then i had expected but i guess thats my lesson in raw puerth vs cooked puerth!
going to update this note later this evening because i should be able to brew up to 5 or 7cups off this tea
