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This tastes exactly like the Yunnan Sourcing’s Dehong Ye Sheng 2013 100 g brick. It has those typical robust, sharp notes of the northern wild purple tea tree variety: tannin, camphor, deep sweet forest greens, pine, raw brussle sprouts, medicinal, minerals, and a long sweet finish. I specify northern since I’m told that young purple pu’ers from the more southerly region of Yiwu and surrounding areas are more mellow.
It’s freshness and flavor profile when young makes northern purple raw pu’er somewhat akin to a rustic green tea with a lot of edge. Personally, I think these purple teas taste better with a few years on them, but they are quite different from their green leaved counterparts and very refreshing.
