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Did you get this tea from Puerh shop?Poseidon wrote:Had this again this morning. I made it before my hour trek to work and poured into a mug when I got in my office. Black black liquor. I expected to have to dump it but it was as smooth and sweet as ever. Very flexable shu!Poseidon wrote:Ive been enjoying my cake of 2012 Yiwu Zhengshan Ripe Pu-erh. SWEET SWEET SWEET! Its seriously the most naturally sweet tea ive had to date. Nice fruit notes, smooth flavor, and a black liquor accompany the sweetness. Quite nice for an evening tea!
Drinking some 2013 Xigui... Good tea! This tea has a nice lingering aftertaste.
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2010 Bing Dao Yi Hao sample from Tea Urchin. Sweet, clean, smooth mushrooms. Yum.
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Fully dayezhong (maybe with some zhongyezhong?) tea from Yibang, spring of this year. Nice, decently thick, very durable, played nicely upon the throat, but I was expecting a lot more fireworks. There was a notable theaninic rush of relaxation followed by restlesness, but nothing out of the ordinary. On the plus side, the taste is strangely reminiscent of Bohetang teas. Took a picture of the yedi to compare with two other yibang dayezhong teas from gardens different than this one:
A little chaguo managed to sneak in. (Sorry for picture quality.)
A little chaguo managed to sneak in. (Sorry for picture quality.)
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Had a rager of a tea session with TokyoB over the weekend. Here's the aftermath.
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Re: Official Pu of the day
That looks like the kind of session where afterwards you can call each other at 3 a.m. and it is safe to assume that neither of you are asleep.Drax wrote:Had a rager of a tea session with TokyoB over the weekend. Here's the aftermath.
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Hi TC,
I've been drinking Pu'erh for more or less a year now daily. I think it might be finally time that I start to contribute to this topic
So today was a treat day. I drank the '98 White Tuo from White2Tea.
It is a really prime example of what an aged shu can taste from my (limited) knowledge of pu'erh. This has a very slight storage taste if not any.
It was delicious
I've been drinking Pu'erh for more or less a year now daily. I think it might be finally time that I start to contribute to this topic
So today was a treat day. I drank the '98 White Tuo from White2Tea.
It is a really prime example of what an aged shu can taste from my (limited) knowledge of pu'erh. This has a very slight storage taste if not any.
It was delicious
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official pu... video of the day!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoX0n31eyV0
some news and possibly subtle propaganda on pu-erh reported on chinese media
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoX0n31eyV0
some news and possibly subtle propaganda on pu-erh reported on chinese media
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Sorry for the late reply. Yes it is from puerhshop.com!DVS wrote:Did you get this tea from Puerh shop?Poseidon wrote:Had this again this morning. I made it before my hour trek to work and poured into a mug when I got in my office. Black black liquor. I expected to have to dump it but it was as smooth and sweet as ever. Very flexable shu!Poseidon wrote:Ive been enjoying my cake of 2012 Yiwu Zhengshan Ripe Pu-erh. SWEET SWEET SWEET! Its seriously the most naturally sweet tea ive had to date. Nice fruit notes, smooth flavor, and a black liquor accompany the sweetness. Quite nice for an evening tea!
Drinking some 2013 Xigui... Good tea! This tea has a nice lingering aftertaste.
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04 Youle Shan Autumn round cake - Has some maturing pu flavors. Herbs, a bit of fruit and wood....and a slight sour note. Chaqi is noticeable. Overall pretty good for an autumn cake.
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Today's pu was all about young Shu. This is a change after the last 2 days in aged shu/sheng land.
So first up was a Haiwan 9978 2012. And then a Gong Ting 2011 from the Jing Mai region. Both of them are quite good and intereting. I'm happy to have waited to replace the GongTing one because the 2011 Dayi that Paul at White2Tea hold is like 10 times better so! I'm on the last mile of that tea!
Cheers
So first up was a Haiwan 9978 2012. And then a Gong Ting 2011 from the Jing Mai region. Both of them are quite good and intereting. I'm happy to have waited to replace the GongTing one because the 2011 Dayi that Paul at White2Tea hold is like 10 times better so! I'm on the last mile of that tea!
Cheers
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Ha! Indeed... maybe that would actually explain my difficulty still sleeping a few days later.... hmmmmm!TwoDog2 wrote:That looks like the kind of session where afterwards you can call each other at 3 a.m. and it is safe to assume that neither of you are asleep.Drax wrote:Had a rager of a tea session with TokyoB over the weekend. Here's the aftermath.
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I've enjoyed enough autumn tea to believe it's not necessarily inferior to spring tea, just different. Unless you are buying to age that ispuerhking wrote:04 Youle Shan Autumn round cake - Has some maturing pu flavors. Herbs, a bit of fruit and wood....and a slight sour note. Chaqi is noticeable. Overall pretty good for an autumn cake.
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BW85 wrote:I've enjoyed enough autumn tea to believe it's not necessarily inferior to spring tea, just different. Unless you are buying to age that ispuerhking wrote:04 Youle Shan Autumn round cake - Has some maturing pu flavors. Herbs, a bit of fruit and wood....and a slight sour note. Chaqi is noticeable. Overall pretty good for an autumn cake.
There are some more stable differences/characteristics, like the aroma, but it's really just a matter of average. Spring tea is a fair bit more likely to be good, but both are heavily affected by weather and other factors. And that autumn tea ages poorly is just another fable convenue... One of CYH's most well regarded Yiwus, and they have no lack of those, is a fully autumnal 2007 tea. The thing is that the shaqing has to be tweaked for guhua tea a little so it gets done poorly quite often.
Speaking of which... First day of brewing 2006 Chenyuanhao Bore, 80% autumn, 20% spring Yiwu. Excellent storage in Shanghai and even better pricing.
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Do you think pure autumn harvest could make it 20+ years? Perhaps with the right storage? I guess I don't personally consider 10 years as "aged"puyuan wrote:BW85 wrote:I've enjoyed enough autumn tea to believe it's not necessarily inferior to spring tea, just different. Unless you are buying to age that ispuerhking wrote:04 Youle Shan Autumn round cake - Has some maturing pu flavors. Herbs, a bit of fruit and wood....and a slight sour note. Chaqi is noticeable. Overall pretty good for an autumn cake.
There are some more stable differences/characteristics, like the aroma, but it's really just a matter of average. Spring tea is a fair bit more likely to be good, but both are heavily affected by weather and other factors. And that autumn tea ages poorly is just another fable convenue... One of CYH's most well regarded Yiwus, and they have no lack of those, is a fully autumnal 2007 tea. The thing is that the shaqing has to be tweaked for guhua tea a little so it gets done poorly quite often.
Speaking of which... First day of brewing 2006 Chenyuanhao Bore, 80% autumn, 20% spring Yiwu. Excellent storage in Shanghai and even better pricing.