Official Pu of the day

[stevorama]

Enjoying the 2015 Da Hu Sai sheng pu er from YS.

[jayinhk]

By the way do you know SONG CHA XIE tea house in HK?

Never heard of it! Tell me more!

[Rui]

By the way do you know SONG CHA XIE tea house in HK?

[Rui]

Yunnan Sourcing chocolate for me: 2015 Year of the Goat. It really tastes like milk chocolate today! Amazing.

You have tempted me to get some of it.

I think I've convinced myself to get some too! It improved a lot after it got some air. The bag was open on top of the microwave for about a month. I've already emailed Scott to see if he can cut me some sort of cash deal when I'm there. While the tea markets and hunting will be fun, I don't know any of the dealers, so no guanxi, and I don't really want to spend a week just looking for tea and sorting through mountains of crap when I know I can get great stuff from Scott and Honza.

Hopefully it does improve further as it does sound like a great tea.

http://en.the-puer.com/p/index.html These two ladies have just been there and found some goodies for me in Yunnan. I'll keep you posted but there is probably Jingmai 2014, Mahei 2014 and a 2004 Yiwu Zheng Shan raw pu'er cakes. < >

[jayinhk]

Yunnan Sourcing chocolate for me: 2015 Year of the Goat. It really tastes like milk chocolate today! Amazing.

You have tempted me to get some of it.

I think I've convinced myself to get some too! It improved a lot after it got some air. The bag was open on top of the microwave for about a month. I've already emailed Scott to see if he can cut me some sort of cash deal when I'm there. While the tea markets and hunting will be fun, I don't know any of the dealers, so no guanxi, and I don't really want to spend a week just looking for tea and sorting through mountains of crap when I know I can get great stuff from Scott and Honza.

[William]

Brewing right now some High Mountain Purple Tea bought from Akira-san. Well, simply perfect .. well processed (extremely rare for purple teas), outstanding body and aftertaste, great endurance that beats me every time (I usually give up after 12/14 brews, the tea sure can go on) and well priced.

Suggested (in particular) to people who dislike (like me) bitterness or astringency in Pu Erh teas!

[Rui]

Yunnan Sourcing chocolate for me: 2015 Year of the Goat. It really tastes like milk chocolate today! Amazing.

You have tempted me to get some of it.

[Rui]

Just steeped some 2004 CNNP 7262 from White2Tea. Excellent smooth, sweet, caramel like colour and no funny smells.

[jayinhk]

Yunnan Sourcing chocolate for me: 2015 Year of the Goat. It really tastes like milk chocolate today! Amazing.

[Rui]

Today I am having some delicious Chinese coffee (aka shou ): 2004 CNNP 7262 from W2T.

[stevorama]

2004/2005 Te ji grade loose shu. This is some cheap stuff I bought from Ranch 99 Chinese supermarket in 2005. Aging pleasantly despite less than stellar storage on my part.

[jayinhk]

That sounds like lovely tea Rui--I need to try some of that! I wonder if I can get an in-person cash discount in Kunming...

[Rui]

Mrmopu and Jayinuk, and both of you are excellent influences on me when it comes to pu'er tea. An I love to be influenced in all matters of this type of tea.

So much so that this morning I am sipping the same 2015 YUNNAN SOURCING "LAO SHU BAI CHA" OLD ARBOR RAW PU-ERH TEA.

Cheers all.

[jayinhk]

Knowing Chinese tea markets, I expect to encounter a lot of crappy tea!

[stevorama]

Stevorama, on my own, although I might meet some Couchsurfers/hang out with backpackers.

Exciting. Hopefully you'll return with some interesting tea stories.