Official Pu of the day

[Rdeitz]

2012 yr Organic BanZhang LaoManE Golden Buds Aged Tree puer Puerh Tea Ripe Cake from the Yunnan Menghai Banzhang Tea Co. by Streetshop88. I bought a sample of this tea with low expectations: a ripe cake that purports to be both organic and from LaoManE? I had my doubts. But I thought I’d give it a shot, I’m the curious type and I couldn’t resist. As for being organic, who knows. Probably not, as we all suspect the organic label on Chinese tea is often not for real, and in fact, I don’t see the word organic on the picture of the label. But as for being from LaoManE, it very well may be. The tea is interesting, and quite bitter. The kind of bitterness you would expect from a LaoManE tea. And it is interesting to taste this level of bitterness in a ripe pu erh. I wonder whether the bitterness will age out, or if it should already have been aged out since the tea has been fermented into a ripe? Underneath the bitterness is a smoothness, if that makes sense, and a hint of that plum flavor and earthiness, though these other flavors are hard to detect because of all the bitterness. It is hurting my stomach like a young sheng. I may buy a cake of this just to see what happens to it.

[Rui]

Today I have gone back to White2Tea's 2012 Cangyan Gufeng Yiwu.

[BW85]

BW85- it is this one https://www.essenceoftea.com/teaware/cl ... eapot.html. Thus why I contacted David about it

One of my friends has a pot in that clay. It's nice clay, but it wouldn't surprise me if some delicate teas didn't go well with it... Which sounds like your experience. It would also have a lot to do with preference, some people my be willing to sacrifice some traits for others

[Zacherywolf7]

BW85- it is this one https://www.essenceoftea.com/teaware/cl ... eapot.html. Thus why I contacted David about it

Puerlife- I will definitely keep posting in this thread, comparing the clay to gaiwan from time to time

[Puerlife]

http://www.white2tea.com/tea-shop/2014-new-amerykah/

Got a yixing. Tested out https://www.essenceoftea.com/tea/puerh- ... h-tea.html in it and compared to the gaiwan it was flavorless. I emailed David of EoT and he seemed to be all for a yixing with young sheng. So I thought I'd test the pot with a punchier puerh, the one linked above, and it worked wonders. More flavorful, more texture than the gaiwan. Fantastic. So I seasoned the yixing and while doing so put the 7 grams in the yixing on top of the 8 grams in the gaiwan of the new amerykah. Fantastic stuff. I need to study it more closely as a tea rather than thinking about the yixing but right now I am feeling more tea drunk than ever.

I recently had my last session with my 25-gram sample of the 2014 New Amerykah2. As soon as I bought it last year I took it out of the sample bag, as I usually do with samples, and put it in a non airtight ceramic caddie and it finally paid off. I didn't like any other of my sessions with this tea but the last one was surprisingly good. I'm beginning to form the conclusion that I don't like new sheng, but one-year-old sheng I often like a lot. Thanks for the report, and please, more info on your pot. I only have one good sheng pot and it's reserved for sheng that's at least seven years old. Anything younger goes in a gaiwan, but what do I know

[Rui]

Yunnan Sourcing 2012 "Impression" raw pu'er a fairly smooth and pleasant tea.

[BW85]

http://www.white2tea.com/tea-shop/2014-new-amerykah/

Got a yixing. Tested out https://www.essenceoftea.com/tea/puerh- ... h-tea.html in it and compared to the gaiwan it was flavorless. I emailed David of EoT and he seemed to be all for a yixing with young sheng. So I thought I'd test the pot with a punchier puerh, the one linked above, and it worked wonders. More flavorful, more texture than the gaiwan. Fantastic. So I seasoned the yixing and while doing so put the 7 grams in the yixing on top of the 8 grams in the gaiwan of the new amerykah. Fantastic stuff. I need to study it more closely as a tea rather than thinking about the yixing but right now I am feeling more tea drunk than ever.

Where'd you acquire the yixing? Just curious

[Zacherywolf7]

http://www.white2tea.com/tea-shop/2014-new-amerykah/

Got a yixing. Tested out https://www.essenceoftea.com/tea/puerh- ... h-tea.html in it and compared to the gaiwan it was flavorless. I emailed David of EoT and he seemed to be all for a yixing with young sheng. So I thought I'd test the pot with a punchier puerh, the one linked above, and it worked wonders. More flavorful, more texture than the gaiwan. Fantastic. So I seasoned the yixing and while doing so put the 7 grams in the yixing on top of the 8 grams in the gaiwan of the new amerykah. Fantastic stuff. I need to study it more closely as a tea rather than thinking about the yixing but right now I am feeling more tea drunk than ever.

[Rui]

2012 Cangyan Gufeng Yiwu from White2Tea a very drinkable raw pu'er with a great price.

[puerhking]

2013 Feng Chun from Yunnan Sourcing - this is a great blended puerh. Very consistent.....just keeps giving a nice potent tea soup. Yum.

[mr mopu]

SOTD 2004 Chang Yu Hao Yi Wu 7 grams in 120 'll gaiwan (lite brewing for me) At first I thought this was going be one of those extremely pure gu shu teas. That is all about aftertaste mouthfeel and qi. But having llittle in the way of flavor Other than an extremely pure taste that is more feeling than taste. Cakes like the 1996 Truly Simply Elegant and certain Yan Qing Haos come to mind. While I love teas of this style I have a hard time shelling out the outrageous sumsof money Teas command. If I spend that much I want the tea to have flavor too.

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I think I have been "hacked"! That wasn't a review of mine. Anybody who know me will know I use at least 10 grams and 10oz. per session.

Whoops! My memory is that I just pressed the quote button and then deleted parts of gasninja's post, but clearly I did something else...

I thought that may have happened! You hacker you!!!

[PurplePotato]

SOTD 2004 Chang Yu Hao Yi Wu 7 grams in 120 'll gaiwan (lite brewing for me) At first I thought this was going be one of those extremely pure gu shu teas. That is all about aftertaste mouthfeel and qi. But having llittle in the way of flavor Other than an extremely pure taste that is more feeling than taste. Cakes like the 1996 Truly Simply Elegant and certain Yan Qing Haos come to mind. While I love teas of this style I have a hard time shelling out the outrageous sumsof money Teas command. If I spend that much I want the tea to have flavor too.

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I think I have been "hacked"! That wasn't a review of mine. Anybody who know me will know I use at least 10 grams and 10oz. per session.

Whoops! My memory is that I just pressed the quote button and then deleted parts of gasninja's post, but clearly I did something else...

[debunix]

2010 Pa Sha Zhong Zhai loose sheng from Norbu: one of those teas that got shuffled to the back of the cabinet, and unfortunately, by the time I opened it and realized it was terrific, it was long gone from the shop. It's one of those wonderful spicy/herbal/sweet young shengs with just enough bite to be very interesting, and yet mellow enough to start on as soon as I was done with the morning gyokuro today. I think I've finally reached the end of sweetwater, but I will give it one more fill and to let steep overnight, just in case the leaves have a little more to give.

[mr mopu]

SOTD 2004 Chang Yu Hao Yi Wu 7 grams in 120 'll gaiwan (lite brewing for me) At first I thought this was going be one of those extremely pure gu shu teas. That is all about aftertaste mouthfeel and qi. But having llittle in the way of flavor Other than an extremely pure taste that is more feeling than taste. Cakes like the 1996 Truly Simply Elegant and certain Yan Qing Haos come to mind. While I love teas of this style I have a hard time shelling out the outrageous sumsof money Teas command. If I spend that much I want the tea to have flavor too.

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I think I have been "hacked"! That wasn't a review of mine. Anybody who know me will know I use at least 10 grams and 10oz. per session.

[PurplePotato]

SOTD 2004 Chang Yu Hao Yi Wu 7 grams in 120 'll gaiwan (lite brewing for me) At first I thought this was going be one of those extremely pure gu shu teas. That is all about aftertaste mouthfeel and qi. But having llittle in the way of flavor Other than an extremely pure taste that is more feeling than taste. Cakes like the 1996 Truly Simply Elegant and certain Yan Qing Haos come to mind. While I love teas of this style I have a hard time shelling out the outrageous sumsof money Teas command. If I spend that much I want the tea to have flavor too.

We can be a picky bunch can't we . We try a tea that has great flavor, and say "where is the qi and activity?" Then we try a tea that's really active and energetic, and wish it had more flavor. Then we try a tea that has qi, activity, and flavor, and we balk at the price

SOTD 2012 Autumn Da Meng Long Ya Kou. Much more smokey today than usual, with me finding the smell of the leaves after the first infusion pretty offensive. Pleasantly, the smokey smell doesn't carry into the flavor much and leaves the wet leaf later in the session. The highlights are the qi that sits in the chest and lasting cooling effect. Also quite strong, not just for an autumn tea but strong in general. This tea makes me want to stop drinking and just sit there, which is quite pleasant.