What's everyone's thoughts on Da Hong Pao?

Yes from Tealet, its amazing, contact them directly for it, you can also look at my review of it.

Verdant tea’s is allright but not nearly in the same class.

I like it as long as it’s not overly roasty. My favorite is Whispering Pines Wildcrafted Da Hong Pao but it’s a little pricey. I’m currently drinking Yunnan Sourcing’s Wild Da Hong Pao which is nearly as good and half the cost.

The best DHP I ever had was from Four Seasons Tea. At nearly $20 per serving it’s on the high end of pricey but so, so very good.

https://fourseasonstea.com/products/mu-ben-da-hong-pao-traditional-handmade-mother-tree

I researched what Da Hong Pao really is awhile back, and wrote a post about that. The normal take is that it’s a Wuyi Yancha cultivar based tea type, that it’s both a plant type and a final tea version, like Tie Kuan Yin (which is a plant type that tends to come in a lighter or dark roasted version, so not exactly the same, just along that line). In doing research Qi Dan and Bei Dou are probably the two most closely related cultivars to the original plants. That assumes the story about 5—or so—original plants is true, that those plants really exist—and they seem to, or at least some are represented as being them—and that all others of the type are essentially the same as them, or derived from them. The twist: in modern forms in China Da Hong Pao seems to be used as the name of a blend instead, or as a brand name. There are two possibilities related to that: all that is fake tea (essentially), or the Western tea industry idea that Da Hong Pao is a cultivar type isn’t exactly right. It would be interesting if there were some middle ground and that duality itself, reducing things to two options, isn’t right, and that may also be the case. Based on some reliable recent input that seem more likely, that the issue is complicated.