New to puerh and just wanted to say hello
I first tried puerh about 10 years ago with a sample of both sheng and shou. Didn’t care for either. About 2 months ago I got both of them out and tried them again. Apparently my palate has changed in the intervening decade as I thought they were great. Now I need to learn more and get some more of each. I know that this is a slippery slope and tea tuition can come at a high price. I am going to use what I learn here hopefully to avoid mistakes as well as I can. I’ll be posting some notes as I progress on this journey. I have a couple of cakes coming and I look forward to picking your brains for information. I will probably be looking primarily at young drinkable shengs and shou as at 67 years of age I don’t have 2 or 3 decades to wait for something to age. Hopefully at some point I can also find some really good aged sheng at a somewhat reasonable price. So hello from Eastern Tennessee.
Hello, there is no doubt that aged puerh tastes better, well, also more expensive lol
Hi TnDave. 10 years is a long time between tastings. :) Glad you liked them. What were the samples? What cakes did you just purchase?
Thanks for the welcome. t-curious the samples of puerh that I had were the 2000 and 2003 Yong Pin Hao “WiYu Zheng Shan” and the ripe puerh was Dayi “Gong Tuo”. I did drink a lot of tea during those 10 years. Lots of oolongs, Golden Needle, Darjeelings and Keemun.
Write reviews. Comment on others. Make friends. Swap stuff. Drink 10x the variety you were before.
Get ready… a whole new world is coming for you : )
Okay. Yesterday I received a cake of Monocle Boss from Mei Leaf. I am waiting for shipment of several from Crimson Lotus as follows:
A cake of “Special Cake” sheng, a cake of 2000 “Old Warrior” shou, a sample of “Black Gold” shou, and a cake of 2005 Changtai “Top of the Clouds” sheng. That should at least give me a start into what this is all about.
Crimson Lotus is a great place to start. Sometimes people try to start off exploring puer with say ebay or their local chinatown, and that rarely ends well…
I added a few tasting notes and reviews on the puerhs I have had thus far. I have a lot of experience reviewing whiskies and cigars but absolutely none regarding teas so please take my notes with a grain of salt. My notes will be an honest attempt to identify the flavors I taste and my rating score at this point is nothing more than some scale of how much I enjoyed the tea.
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