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Re: Official Pu of the day
Posted: Jan 24th, '14, 16:07
by bliss
Re: Official Pu of the day
Posted: Jan 24th, '14, 23:21
by debunix
Baptizing a new cup from Shyrabbit with some Lao Ban Zhang. As anticipated, this cup is wonderfully sized and shaped for many quick small infusions; and the tea is holding its own against some superbly garlicky quinoa with nuts for a light supper.
Re: Official Pu of the day
Posted: Jan 25th, '14, 11:37
by Teaism
A wonderful and enjoyable afternoon of tea session with kyarazen.
We had 2013 Mengku from 3 counties, a semi fermented Dong Ding.
2005 DXS, 2002DXS, Ta Kou Zhong with red oil kyara... And a Tie Loh Han for dessert.
Yummy!
Re: Official Pu of the day
Posted: Jan 25th, '14, 12:42
by gasninja
1994 8582 from houde. Very wierd seaweed smell/taste. I have only had this taste one other time in an 89 baozhong. I liked it in the oolong but it is disappointing in The 8582. I have only tried this tea once before a while back. But after trying it I bought two more samples as I thought it was a really good 90's 8582. It tasted nothing like this before.
Re: Official Pu of the day
Posted: Jan 26th, '14, 13:33
by kyarazen
Teaism wrote:A wonderful and enjoyable afternoon of tea session with kyarazen.
We had 2013 Mengku from 3 counties, a semi fermented Dong Ding.
2005 DXS, 2002DXS, Ta Kou Zhong with red oil kyara... And a Tie Loh Han for dessert.
Yummy!
great enjoyment of having top quality tea a really passionate and superbly generous host!
thanks for allowing me to peek into all your various cabinets and shelves housing massive numbers of different yixing pots. maybe i should start queueing up for some of the pots i'm eying on if ever you consider to part with them one day
Re: Official Pu of the day
Posted: Jan 26th, '14, 17:59
by Drax
gasninja wrote:1994 8582 from houde. Very wierd seaweed smell/taste. I have only had this taste one other time in an 89 baozhong. I liked it in the oolong but it is disappointing in The 8582. I have only tried this tea once before a while back. But after trying it I bought two more samples as I thought it was a really good 90's 8582. It tasted nothing like this before.
Hrm, I think this is one that I re-tried recently. I don't recall having an odd experience. Any idea what happened?
Re: Official Pu of the day
Posted: Jan 27th, '14, 08:35
by gasninja
No clue. It has been sealed in the sample pack since I bought it. I am going to try it again soon.
Re: Official Pu of the day
Posted: Jan 27th, '14, 13:12
by fdrx
Recently i've tried a few samples from puerh.sk several months after i've received them and they had in common a slight seaweed taste... i'm pretty sure the problem was the samples plastic bags : they were too thin and smelled plastic.
In your case maybe you should air out the sample for a reasonable period of time and repack it into a good bag, but i guess you've already anticipated all this
Re: Official Pu of the day
Posted: Jan 27th, '14, 14:00
by shah82
Yeah, I've had that experience with several samples that were in plastic bag. I don't think of it as seaweed. It's far more obnoxious than seaweed. I wouldn't mind seaweed as a taste in my tea, because that's a nice umami taste...
Re: Official Pu of the day
Posted: Jan 27th, '14, 15:42
by fdrx
speaking of seaweed as a good aspect in tea, i'm having a sample of eot manmai...
Re: Official Pu of the day
Posted: Jan 29th, '14, 09:03
by TwoDog2
fdrx wrote:speaking of seaweed as a good aspect in tea, i'm having a sample of eot manmai...
Which year? I just tried a sample sent to me from 2010
Re: Official Pu of the day
Posted: Jan 29th, '14, 16:54
by fdrx
it was a 2010 Manmai sample i bought several months ago, it smelled weird and i forgot it. I brewed it these days and i found a little something of seaweed that made the sips very mouth-watering and satisfactory... this was probably both enhanced by the minerals from the water i use (sodium?), and somewhat hidden by the tanins of the tea, but i really enjoyed this uncommon characteristic, like bad but delicious... and i did not even focus on the others aspects of the tea, except that the energy became much too burdensome after a while. But well, it's only a very personal return of experience, and the sample is over now...
Re: Official Pu of the day
Posted: Jan 29th, '14, 21:14
by kyarazen
drank 900ml of 2009 yi wu ma hei in one sitting
Re: Official Pu of the day
Posted: Jan 30th, '14, 06:21
by JakubT
2003 Dayi Nannuo now, in school. I hoped it would get better - nope. It's not really bad, but it's not too full, sweet, nor tasty - it's like scented wood with a lot of bitterness and some astirngency...
Re: Official Pu of the day
Posted: Jan 30th, '14, 07:37
by brandon
JakubT wrote:2003 Dayi Nannuo now, in school. I hoped it would get better - nope. It's not really bad, but it's not too full, sweet, nor tasty - it's like scented wood with a lot of bitterness and some astirngency...
This hasn't been my experience. Tea in this age range is demanding of the brewer to extract the fullness, IMO.