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“Maybe my expectations for this Mini were too high, maybe I was preparing it wrong… This is fine tea, and I was steeping it with several 30 seconds steeps (including rinse), and many longer ones....” Read full tasting note
A project that began in 2019, this tea is a culmination of several years of experimentation with charcoal roasting Puer. Pink & Blue was sent to Fujian province to be charcoal roasted by hand by veteran Wuyi Yancha makers. The result is a truly unique tea. A blend of 2020 and 2021 raw Puer teas, roasted in autumn 2021 in Fujian and rested until pressing this spring.
Intense tea with an undercurrent of bitterness and a burly core that pushes up against the fiery punch of the charcoal roast. A classic style Puer tea blend with a twist that transports the tea into a new realm. [copy from 2022]
Maybe my expectations for this Mini were too high, maybe I was preparing it wrong…
This is fine tea, and I was steeping it with several 30 seconds steeps (including rinse), and many longer ones. The dragon ball never fell apart; but keeps releasing nice and slightly astringent flavours typical somehow for sheng. And here comes the twist; yes, it’s definitely astringent and there are unripe stone fruit notes; I would describe them as unripe apricots… but there is, in my opinion, slight smokiness (or it’s roastiness — ?). That switches the flavour a little into oolong territory. Later steeps were definitely more oolong like.
I used whole litre in my thermos and honestly, I have to say, this is unique tea but somehow I feel it should be even a bit better. Or it’s again Yancha like and it seems I am not so big fan of those.
I would like to hear other tea enthusiasts thoughts. But this tea doesn’t seems to be for me.
That’s me problem, not tea problem.
