Oct 6th, '14, 11:31
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by TwoDog2 » Oct 6th, '14, 11:31
PurplePotato wrote:2012 Ruiyuan Nannuo today. Good thing I didn't buy this just for the taste, as it tastes almost completely different from the last time I had it. Has also changed to having a drinkable level of a astringency.
It is always interesting when I don't try one of my teas for awhile and then it has had a large change in character. This happened to me with a tea that I had shelved for a couple of years in America and tried a few months ago! Puer will often be surprising, especially the younger teas. After a younger tea is pressed it is in a near constant state of (relatively) rapid evolution for a few years.
Hopefully the newly evolved taste was pleasant?! If not, back to the shelf.
Oct 5th, '14, 21:59
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by sung8891 » Oct 5th, '14, 21:59
Hi teachatters, I am in Singapore for few.days. Is anyone free to have tea here between 12-15 Oct or on the 8 of oct? My contact number here is +65 93899150. Su
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by PurplePotato » Oct 4th, '14, 18:12
Teaism wrote:Enjoying a nice 2014 wild early spring tea from one of the last frontier of remote tea mountain area near Zheng Kang. The body is extremely thick with lingering sweetness. A very unique experience with this tea as this is the first time I encounter a tea can that endure long steeping without being bitter or astringent but produce extremely thick body and sweetness brew. Definitely will be in my fave list.
Cheers!
That sounds nice. Do you think such a tea could be a good bet for aging, or more just something to drink now? There's no real way to know with any certainty, but I bet you have a guess
Oct 3rd, '14, 22:19
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by Teaism » Oct 3rd, '14, 22:19
Enjoying a nice 2014 wild early spring tea from one of the last frontier of remote tea mountain area near Zheng Kang. The body is extremely thick with lingering sweetness. A very unique experience with this tea as this is the first time I encounter a tea can that endure long steeping without being bitter or astringent but produce extremely thick body and sweetness brew. Definitely will be in my fave list.
Cheers!
Oct 3rd, '14, 21:42
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by PurplePotato » Oct 3rd, '14, 21:42
2012 Ruiyuan Nannuo today. Good thing I didn't buy this just for the taste, as it tastes almost completely different from the last time I had it. Has also changed to having a drinkable level of a astringency.
Sep 29th, '14, 17:02
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by puerhking » Sep 29th, '14, 17:02
Today I'm enjoying the 2012 Yunnan Sourcing Mang Fei. Actually I've been drinking it for the past three days. Inviting aroma with grain and tobacco. Reminds me a bit of the Feng Chun. Another nice cake for the price.
Sep 28th, '14, 15:42
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by mam2431 » Sep 28th, '14, 15:42
I've been trying to find Nannuo teas to add to my puerh collection. Today I am enjoying the 2005 NannuoShan 7549 from Cha Wang. Tea notes posted on TeaDB alerted me to this one which I find very easy to like. There is an appealing bitterness and it provides a surprising mixture of tastes - aged-worn leather, forest wood and tobacco but there is also a bit of fruity sweetness (maybe plum) present. Nice huigan which builds throughout the session leaving an aftertaste which offered a pleasant cooling effect.
Any recommendations for other Nannuo shengs? I should mention that I also have two Nannuo offerings from White2Tea.
Sep 28th, '14, 02:19
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by Jaymo » Sep 28th, '14, 02:19
I opened up my 100g Phatty Cake 2011 from Mandala today to give it an initial try.
The cake is pretty compact with a couple slightly looser sections, but overall relatively uniform. I brewed 7g in my porcelain faux-gaiwan (It is a little taller, but similarly built,) brewing roughly 200ml at a time.
The first couple quick brews had some mineral notes, a tiny hint of mint, and slightly earthy. As I continued brewing it, some cocoa and hints of tobacco show up as well as dried dark fruit (dates/figs) without getting too sweet. It isn't astringent, but the mouthfeel develops a nice round fullness.
It develops some pretty dark color and stays intense in character, so after a slightly longer 3rd & 4th brew, I go back to short steeping times again for awhile. Even these are a deep garnet color at the lightest.
I haven't been drinking puerh that long, but this is one of my 2 favorites so far. I will be ordering more of it, especially since it's a smaller cake!
Sep 28th, '14, 02:05
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by 茶藝-TeaArt08 » Sep 28th, '14, 02:05
Gu Mu Lan for many quiet rounds in the soft, post-rain, Autumnal day....a nice compliment to the day's clean sky and moist, earthy air.
Blessings
Sep 27th, '14, 16:37
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by puerhking » Sep 27th, '14, 16:37
Having the 2013 Yunnan Sourcing Xiang Ming today. Bean, grain, leather and a brothy umami flavor that's hard to describe. Chaqi is good and the finish lingers in the mouth. Doesn't have the classic grain dominated Yiwu flavor, which for me is a nice change. Overall liking this one especially for the price.
Sep 25th, '14, 08:57
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by jayinhk » Sep 25th, '14, 08:57
Loose shu pu erh with over a decade of HK storage. Probably Menghai stuff. Very, very smooth after airing out for over a year, almost directly across the street from where it was purchased!
Sep 25th, '14, 04:47
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by Rui » Sep 25th, '14, 04:47
At the moment I am sipping a very young pu'erh: 2011 Autumn Yi Wu from a mini cake. The larger cake has been put in storage for (much) later.
Sep 24th, '14, 14:32
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by Balthazar » Sep 24th, '14, 14:32
BW85 wrote:The tea you are referring to is the sample sent out, the 2013 king of the Forrest or something?
I'm talking about a different tea; if you scroll down on the home page they have a "2014 light meets life" cake. The leaves are not chopped up like that, nice and whole. no bingdao claim. GTH traveled to Yunnan to personally help harvest and process the tea. The king of the Forrest tea you were talking about is just basic factory tea and is good tea but does not compare to the LML cake in my opinion. It really is a beautiful tea. It's a shame they don't send out samples of it
Ah, my bad then. Thought you were talking about the sample tea from this month.
Sep 24th, '14, 11:43
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by BW85 » Sep 24th, '14, 11:43
Jaymo wrote:BW85 wrote:Sipping the 2014 light meets life cake from global tea hut, just arrived today. Gotta say, I'm very impressed! I've never had a sheng this young be so smooth, which I guess you could attribute to the 1000+ year old trees used. Great flavor, no smoke. And again, very very smooth. strong and soothing qi, very grounding.
A+
I just discovered their website/videos and was looking over this cake and wondering how it was. I'm tempted to make a donation and pick one up while they're available!
It's very enjoyable tea
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by BW85 » Sep 24th, '14, 11:32
Balthazar wrote:BW85 wrote:Sipping the 2014 light meets life cake from global tea hut, just arrived today. Gotta say, I'm very impressed! I've never had a sheng this young be so smooth, which I guess you could attribute to the 1000+ year old trees used. Great flavor, no smoke. And again, very very smooth. strong and soothing qi, very grounding.
A+
How did you brew it?
I tried this one as well, a few days ago. I probably went a bit overboard with the amount of tea I put in my gaiwan (tea dry leaves filled about 50% of it, a bit more than usual for me). So the first few flash-brews were fairly unpleasant to my still rather untrained palate. After I removed a bit of leaf it got much more enjoyable. Definitely strong in the energy compartment throughout, and it had a lot of stamina, overall I must have brewed it close to 20 times... I moved the leaves over to a yixing pot after brew 7 or so, and found it even more pleasant after that. (I rarely move my tea between vessels during a session, but I felt an urge to try this time, since the Wu De recommends brewing this one in a pot.)
I was, however, a bit surprised to see the cut of this tea. Not that I'm one to put a particular emphasis on unbroken tea leaves.
I'm not sure whether or not this is "really" Bingdao (and a few zjol-posters seem to have doubt regarding this brand) or from some nearby area, and I don't particularly care (the only "Bingdao" I've had previously is a sample from TeaUrchin, and I don't know if this is "really" Bingdao either - sorry for all the quotation marks). But I am very glad GTH is honest about the factory so the buyer is actually able to verify the claims made.
It is, as you say, a very nice tea, and I also found it less harsh than its age would suggest. Particularly smooth I did not find it (happily), rather intense, in a good way.
The tea you are referring to is the sample sent out, the 2013 king of the Forrest or something?
I'm talking about a different tea; if you scroll down on the home page they have a "2014 light meets life" cake. The leaves are not chopped up like that, nice and whole. no bingdao claim. GTH traveled to Yunnan to personally help harvest and process the tea. The king of the Forrest tea you were talking about is just basic factory tea and is good tea but does not compare to the LML cake in my opinion. It really is a beautiful tea. It's a shame they don't send out samples of it
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