My Grand Plan for Leftover Samples

[Rdeitz]

This may be a terrible idea, but hey, there's not much to lose. I'm going to empty all my leftover samples into a paper bag, as they come in for the year. By the end of the year, I'll have a mix of lots of different shengs. Sort of like a house blend. I will leave out any bad tasting ones. It will be an experiment.
Will they balance put into a decent blend? Will it just taste like a bad mix? Who knows...

[shah82]

http://half-dipper.blogspot.com/2009/11 ... blend.html

[Rdeitz]

Very funny! Thanks, shah. Curious if anyone has results to share!

[Emmett]

I also have four tins worth of mixed sheng. Filling one up each year for the past four years. I think there was a post about this before maybe a year or two ago on here.

[MarshalN]

It sort of depends on your samples' quality, but usually the more things you dump in it the more the tea approaches generic factory tasting tea

[honza]

Last year I took all powder and broken leaves from about 100 different open sheng cakes and bricks from 2000-2012, 3+kg , to Menghai and in the factory ask for some 1kg bricks pressed for me.
Now after one year when I read this topic, I try one the brick today first time. Is very nice. Strong (broken leaves), but very nice. I guess after 10 years can be this tea pretty nice.

[AllanK]

Blending different puerhs is something I have been meaning to try but haven't gotten around to.