Official Pu of the day

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Re: Official Pu of the day

by Frisbeehead » May 17th, '17, 01:05

Hey guys, I wanted to see if anyone here has heard of Liming pu'erh. I bought a cake while I was in China, it's from 2009 and called "Ba Jiao Ting", for ~300RMB. I tried several different teas in the shop before settling on this one, picked it up at a small puerh shop at the Wukuaishi tea market in Chengdu. There's a similar cake listed on Life in a Teacup's site, near the bottom.

EDIT: According to Yunnan Sourcing, "Ba Jiao Ting" isn't the specific name for the tea, just for the brand. So I am thinking that the 901 would be this specific cake. YS also mentions that Liming factory is based out of Menghai, and that they have a good reputation.

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The tea shop I bought it from specialized in puerh and had many really nice offerings, if I'd had more money to spend I would've picked up a couple others too. The owner of the tea shop was great, she was super helpful. At first she tried to sell me on a much more expensive cake, but after talking with her a bit in Chinese she helped me find a cake in my price range that she liked. We tried several different teas, including some quite expensive Fuding white tea. While my girlfriend and I were sitting there tasting this Liming, a middle-aged Chinese couple walked in and sat down to drink some tea as well. They seemed to be regulars, as the owner knew them personally. We talked with the couple for a long time, maybe an hour or two, and they said that they always came to that shop. They seemed to know their way around puerh, so this was pretty reassuring. The man talked with me about all sorts of things, particularly health and what tea does for your body, as well as other things like Tai Chi, international talk, life, etc.

They also had a bunch of Fuding white tea cakes there, which seems to be very popular in China at the moment (or at least in Chengdu). The white tea was great, I would've probably bought a cake of that too if I'd had the money. However I later ended up getting a Fuding white tea cake for free at a sort of tea demonstration thing in Shanghai. It was a gift because I was a student apparently, I didn't see anyone else there get one. This Chinese calligraphy professor (who incidentally became our tour guide there) dragged us all around the place showing us his calligraphy awards, different tea rooms, and other stuff, and right before leaving he brought us into this room with all these gift bags. Then he grabbed some for us :D

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It's not as good as the white tea I tried at the shop in Chengdu, but it's still very good. Not sure about the value, perhaps something around 300-400 RMB? Really not sure.

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Re: Official Pu of the day

by jayinhk » May 16th, '17, 20:52

94 Dayi 100g sheng tuo. Aged to smooth and thick with calming energy and surprising huigan in the second infusion. Still lots to it so I'll revisit it later today. Was perhaps a bit too much caffeine after a full shuixian session!

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Re: Official Pu of the day

by stevorama » May 16th, '17, 20:45

2016 Yun hai zhi dian Huang Shan sheng pu er. Forest tea. Sublime and very good.

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Re: Official Pu of the day

by William » May 13th, '17, 10:42

I am sipping an innocent Hojicha, quite tasty I must say! I bought it from a small shop located in Kyoto (I forgot the name) last week. Good quality, well roasted and nicely priced! I think I've been so lucky since I chose it randomly .. :mrgreen:

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Re: Official Pu of the day

by Henk » May 13th, '17, 10:00

Last year I bought Bai Shu maocha from Hojo. When I open the bag it smells of the sea. The taste is quite subtle though.

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Re: Official Pu of the day

by kuánglóng » May 13th, '17, 02:57

mr mopu wrote:
I see I am not the only one to get the salty and brothy notes from puerh.
Oh no, I'm a hopeless sucker for distinct minerality (no minerals - no fun :) ) and have a couple shengs that once brewed up have almost more in common with a consommé than tea, e.g. an 2011 Autumn sheng from YangTa (JingGu).
My control samples of the 2015 Hai Lang Hao 'Gao Shan Chen Yun' that both of us reviewed went through a rather savory, brothy phase as well but that seems to have passed now.

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Re: Official Pu of the day

by mr mopu » May 12th, '17, 22:06

kuánglóng wrote: 2007 JingJiaTang Bada

A clear dark brown-orange liquor with no significant aromas, storage funk or smoke to talk about. Taste wise I mainly get a mellow mid-range melange of wood (oak), tobacco and avocado (yep), no brighter notes; healthy bitterness. some sweetness, with some astringency later during the session. Not the most complex or dynamic tea in town (any of my factory cakes from that era has more to offer here) but the expressiveness, good minerality (almost salty), decent viscosity, a nice lasting throatiness!, lingering aftertaste, good stamina and gentle calming effects sorta make up for that.
I see I am not the only one to get the salty and brothy notes from puerh.

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Re: Official Pu of the day

by kuánglóng » May 12th, '17, 13:48

2007 JingJiaTang Bada

A clear dark brown-orange liquor with no significant aromas, storage funk or smoke to talk about. Taste wise I mainly get a mellow mid-range melange of wood (oak), tobacco and avocado (yep), no brighter notes; healthy bitterness. some sweetness, with some astringency later during the session. Not the most complex or dynamic tea in town (any of my factory cakes from that era has more to offer here) but the expressiveness, good minerality (almost salty), decent viscosity, a nice lasting throatiness!, lingering aftertaste, good stamina and gentle calming effects sorta make up for that.

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Re: Official Pu of the day

by jayinhk » May 12th, '17, 09:50

Xeractha wrote: @Distrait

The taste wasn't good. Actually the sourness bothered me the most. I don't mind a certain bitterness though. I didn't want to bother with breaking up those chunks so I just threw everything into the gaiwan. The good thing about this was the feeling. For some reason I started laughing after a few bad cups and when I finished the tea I felt good. I'm ill now, got a cold or whatever it is and it made me feel better a little bit.
That sounds like a rough experience! I have quite a few XG tuos, but I won't drink them green as I'm scared of having an experience like yours. lol

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Re: Official Pu of the day

by Xeractha » May 12th, '17, 03:04

@Distrait

The taste wasn't good. Actually the sourness bothered me the most. I don't mind a certain bitterness though. I didn't want to bother with breaking up those chunks so I just threw everything into the gaiwan. The good thing about this was the feeling. For some reason I started laughing after a few bad cups and when I finished the tea I felt good. I'm ill now, got a cold or whatever it is and it made me feel better a little bit.

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Re: Official Pu of the day

by Distrait » May 12th, '17, 00:19

Xeractha wrote: Around 15g (maybe little bit more) 2006 Xiaguan Te Ji + 80ml gaiwan and boiling water with relatively long steeps... Barely 40-45ml tea came out of the gaiwan.
My face looked like this

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It tasted so smokey, bitter, sour, sweet and for some reason I felt cinnamon. But I won! I drank the tea till it tasted like water or I just killed my taste buds. This was lovely.

@Distrait Of course shu is welcome.
:lol: Was this really enjoyable? I can't tell.

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Re: Official Pu of the day

by jayinhk » May 11th, '17, 07:34

Drinking a 2002 Dayi HK storage brick (brown paper). Light camphor and slight date. Interesting middle ground between dry and traditional storage. Doubt this tea is authentic as the price was too low for the age and it only gave me two infusions or so.

Also got a knockoff 2007 Dayi 7572 in today. It was too cheap to pass up without checking out. It smells...scary. Lots of obvious issues with the sticker, nei fei and nei piao too. Worth the tuition to see what the current fakes are looking like. I'll post side by side pics up soon...need to get some batteries for my UV flashlight!

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Re: Official Pu of the day

by Xeractha » May 11th, '17, 07:09

Around 15g (maybe little bit more) 2006 Xiaguan Te Ji + 80ml gaiwan and boiling water with relatively long steeps... Barely 40-45ml tea came out of the gaiwan.
My face looked like this

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It tasted so smokey, bitter, sour, sweet and for some reason I felt cinnamon. But I won! I drank the tea till it tasted like water or I just killed my taste buds. This was lovely.

@Distrait Of course shu is welcome.

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Re: Official Pu of the day

by Distrait » May 10th, '17, 00:36

Everyone's drinking Sheng.. is Shu welcome here?

Caveat: I'm a Pu novice, but I've drank my way through many samples in the past few months.

2006 Yi Pan Tang "Menghai Lao Shu" from Yunnan Sourcing

Astringency - little to none
Smoke - none
Dryness - little to none
Mouth-feel - medium-thick
Hui gan - didn't note on this, sorry
Flavor - good to excellent
Overall value - excellent
Purchase again - Yes! Just purchased two cakes!

Brewed: 8.5g/140ml gaiwan. Boiling water for quick rinse and 90 degrees for the first 10 steeps. I took this one to 20 steeps, really tried to see what this tea could do as the description said 10+ steeps easily and I was brewing quite light to start. A few flash brews and worked my way up all the way to 5+ min brews; but the first 10 were 20 seconds or less. Tea was a nice red-brown, lightening up over time. I'm still having a difficult time describing the taste of tea, but my notes say chocolate, wet wood and sweet. As most Shu I've had so far, as infusions go on sweetness intensifies. I found this tea fairly viscous and lubricating with some slight tingle on the outer edges of the tongue.

Overall quite good tasting tea and I think it's value is very good. I enjoyed it as much or more than samples of tea I had that were almost 3x the cost.

Already 11 years of age on this, great taste, huge 500g cake, only $30USD (on sale for another 15 hours).

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Re: Official Pu of the day

by Rui » May 8th, '17, 06:24

kuánglóng wrote:
Rui wrote: Xiaguan Baoyan 2005 brick from die Kunst des Tees in Germany
Sometimes this is just the stuff I need to cope with the ongoing cr@p weather over here.
I agree. This same applies on this side.

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