2023 Pulchritude

Pulchritude is an archaic term for beauty. This 2023 production is another loot-bag exclusive from white2tea which lacks any sort of ‘beta’. As usual, I didn’t know what to expect, and this one really surprised me with a taste profile I’ve never seen before in a sheng puerh. Immediately off the bat I got notes of vanilla and lotus, very unique for this tea type, and very on the dot.

I drank this tea to death, and it definitely exceeded my expectations as to what could come from this loot bag. I expected a lot of mediocre and largely huangpian productions; I am not expecting elite high quality sheng from this, and even with Pulchritude you don’t really get that, but you get something that is unusual for the tea type. I really hope the rest of the offerings in this bag are like this, but I still won’t get my hopes up. Solid tea.