Official Pu of the day

[fdrx]

Guangyachaye '11 zhencang qingzhuan:
Their low end brick. drinkable, nothing wrong, nothing great. totally boring.

Qilinhao lbz '11 or '12 (sample):
bitter but not undrinkable. very much like the idea we have of lao man'e. there's some good vanilla along with the bitterness and the mushrooms. A discret pleasant smoke appears after a few brews. Not astringent, not very creamy either. A little juicy after a while, makes salivate a bit. The aftertaste stays in the mouth too, and for a rather long time. some freshness in the mouth. I haven't noticed any particular qi. a rather classic bitter bulang. Not my thing.

[jayinhk]

Spring 2017 purple cake from Xiaguan! 250g little cake. Lovely dark leaves and enticing aroma. Interestingly the aroma from the cake dropped off with HK humidity in only a few days. It was seriously aromatic when it first came in and made the air around it smell sweet!

The aroma carries into the cup and it has a lovely purple pu flavor. Very clean tea! Unfortunately it is also very bitter. I wonder how this tea will age; I think it is best consumed young as I suspect a lot of the subtlety will be lost and it'll just be a generic aged pu with time. Who knows though?

Check out this crazy liquor:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BX15eTjF0v-/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BX15kVOlzla ... tealife.hk

Wet leaf shot:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BX15hajFOVr ... tealife.hk

[Rui]

2017 Nan Nuo from Chawangshop.

Marvellous.

[donLasa]

Bao Tang 2013 TeaUrchin

[stevorama]

2017 Theasophie Mangjing Jingmai and 2017 Theasophie Feral Nature Jingmai sheng pu er. The Feral Nature is a mix of wild and untended old growth. Both are excellent well rounded teas.

[fdrx]

maocha label: Wan jia shou cang 2012(?), unknown brand.
aromatic leaves (dry leaves: sour leather, gaiwan lid: santal , wet leaves: tobacco & maybe red fruits), tasteless soup at the beginning then anise, sweet & classic aftertaste that grows, has anise too. After 15 minutes the aftertaste is still there and in the mouth too: juicy, so cheeks constriction and salivation. Slow qi that makes me very clumsy and puts me in my bubble. Good surprise, that's what i like (unlike the mu shu cha of the other day)

[Rui]

2010 Chen Sheng Hao TF Yiwu Fuyuan Chang from Amana in Prague.

[Rui]

2017 Bangwai from Cha-Shifu. Mild and lightly sweet sheng appealing to me early in the morning.

[Rui]

Back to the 2017 Hai Lang Hao Gua Feng Zhang from Yunnan Sourcing to compare with the 2014 version which I'll sip tomorrow.

[fdrx]

YS Mu Shu Cha 2011, grandpa style

Almost zero aroma compared to yesterday LBZ
Pretty tasteless too, all is in the aftertaste which is quite strong. It starts sweet and becomes minty after a while. Length is decent.
Quite astringent.

The soup is clean, but since the first sip i am filling pesticides in the throat and tongue (i can be wrong though)

Some bitterness is showing up on round two

Energy is obvious, i start focused on my stomach and i am feeling a bit high after a few minutes, and i'll be like that for a good while, but my mind is not trying to do thousands of things at the same time like with the LBZ. Later i can feel my eyes too, well i can feel some energy in the body... strong calming energy, not class A to me but it is strong. (note that i am not drinking much puerh recently)

too astringent for now.

[Rui]

2016 Nan Nuo sheng from Chawangshop. Working on the last quarter of this tea cake. Finishing off this one before embarking on the 2016 which I started when it came out and it is patiently waiting for my attention.

[Aya]

Drinking 2002 Yi Wu guchashu shougong bing cha (not sure about the spelling, I only know characters and read them in Japanese, and used Kanji/Hanji converter...) by Yunnanshen Jin Yu Xuan, 10g sample purchased at a local Chinatown (Yokohama) tea shop.

No bitterness at all in this shen. Mellow and relaxing flavor, and start tasting slight plum flavor at 6th infusion.

[fdrx]

Long time no see!

Eh...a favor? All of the maps of puerh regions are gone from link rot, can you send me your originals?

Thanks for the CSH review, not too many reviews of these LBZs in the west.

hey shah! thank you
Yes, sure i will send you all the data i have, but currently my hard drives are crossing the ocean since i just moved back, so it might take a couple month to get there, i will check if i have a backup or something though but i'm not sure

[shah82]

Long time no see!

Eh...a favor? All of the maps of puerh regions are gone from link rot, can you send me your originals?

Thanks for the CSH review, not too many reviews of these LBZs in the west.

[fdrx]

After 4-5 years in an unopened terracotta jar, and in a rather cold and dry place, i'm having a grandpa session with a small chuck of chenshenghao LBZ 2010

The aromas from the glass are voodooing me, i will spend the day smelling this "leather and santal wood vinager". The soup is pure and as expected, the length persists as long as a good expresso would do. The mouth gets oily after a while. Qi is obvious and makes me pretty euphoric but i am not focused on that.

This is a delicate drink, with lots of vanilla and some nice bitterness: as expected it has not aged that much compared to the two other bricks i kept with me, but at least it hasn't become weak or anything like that.

LBZ or not, great or not, to me this is the kind of leaves that can make someone fall in love with puerh (depends on the chunk you pick though...), just like these zhi zheng cakes did on me at the time.