Official Pu of the day

[debunix]

2nd round with the same leaves of the 2007 white bud sheng puerh from Norbu. Using a small yixing, lots of tea, very hot water, short infusions now extending longer. Delicious as always.

[auhckw]

auhkw, if you find 2007 Secret Frangrance shu, sample it, buy it.

1) The swallow is kinda notable, feels alot like raw oysters going down.

2) Doesn't have a standard Dayi taste--basically a kind of soil-wood-lotus-coconut/milk. Not very strongly flavored, but actually has some complexity.

3) Qi is very, very good for a shu

4) The finish is extremely long for a shu, flavors can change on the tongue and last in the mouth. Huigans/slight houyuns have happened on occasion.

5) Fragrance is slight, but interesting when you sniff hard.

Sounds very interesting. Do you have the cover of the pu so that I can easily identify it when i see it

[shah82]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Secret-Fragrance-Me ... 33572db59a

Obviously, that price is too expensive. On TaoBao, it's firmly at about 100 yuan, and some people sell it for 200 yuan. Just saying that if there are malaysian deals, this probably is a pretty good one to buy. To my tastes, this is, overall, better than Dragon Pole '09 or Ziyun--tho' the age difference is a consideration.

[auhckw]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Secret-Fragrance-Me ... 33572db59a

Obviously, that price is too expensive. On TaoBao, it's firmly at about 100 yuan, and some people sell it for 200 yuan. Just saying that if there are malaysian deals, this probably is a pretty good one to buy. To my tastes, this is, overall, better than Dragon Pole '09 or Ziyun--tho' the age difference is a consideration.

I saw this on display in one of the tea shops I frequent visit. But it is the last of it. They just hang it on the wall. Not sure whether they have samples hidden somewhere. Will try to ask.

If I do come across, will get back to you on the taste and price...

[debunix]

A rare gongfu session with the Menghai Golden needle white lotus 2007 brick, and it is impressive how marvelously it carries forward a rich sweet caramel-rich flavor with bits of apricot into the late infusions.

Perhaps it's a good thing it's so hard to pick apart, or I'd be out of it already.

[debunix]

Lovely 2006 Yong De Hand Braided Wild Arbor Pu Erh Tea today from Norbu. This was the end of the sample I got, and to drink more of this lovely stuff, I will have to start breaking up the beautiful beeng. I will need to take some good photos before I start that, but it is so delicious that it will not survive long as simply beeng art. Sweet, caramel, anise, gentle earthy sweet humus, mmmm.

[Dass]

I saw this on display in one of the tea shops I frequent visit. But it is the last of it. They just hang it on the wall. Not sure whether they have samples hidden somewhere. Will try to ask.

If I do come across, will get back to you on the taste and price...[/quote]

If I am not mistaken,Long run still has this for sale.Its a good tea but too bad I do not like cooked tea so I did not buy it but I bought the RAW version of this.

[debunix]

I saw this on display in one of the tea shops I frequent visit. But it is the last of it. They just hang it on the wall. Not sure whether they have samples hidden somewhere. Will try to ask.

If I do come across, will get back to you on the taste and price...

If I am not mistaken,Long run still has this for sale.Its a good tea but too bad I do not like cooked tea so I did not buy it but I bought the RAW version of this.

Are you referring here to the 2006 Yong De in my post? The tea I have is quite clearly sheng/raw, not shu/cooked.

[shah82]

He's talking about Dayi Secret Fragrance from 2007. There was both a sheng and shu version.

Dass, the issue is that the Secret Fragrance is a better shu, relative to its peer shu than the sheng, relative to other shengs. I don't doubt that the sheng is delicious, though.

[TIM]

no idea what this is, when this made, name and background.... something shu? someone help?

[bearsbearsbears]

no idea what this is, when this made, name and background.... something shu? someone help?

If shu, I think that's a 90s 7572, or a "reproduction" thereof. The ones I've seen in person were brighter yellow, though.

[debunix]

2008 Yi Wu Bamboo aged sheng from Norbu today--a lovely tea put through a tea torture test: Fill kettle with water. Pour some (cold) over chunk of tea in kamjove. Let sit a few seconds, pour off rinse water. Add more water, now slightly warm. Let sit while doing things in another room for 45 minutes. Return, pour off first cold infusion into thermos, add boiling water, leave for a 1 hour meeting. Return, and pour hot water through the leaves rapidly while tossing papers together for afternoon clinic on another floor. Thermos filled with water, all of which has touched the leaves, at least. Will it be good? And it is!

Gotta love this stuff.

[bagua7]

2008 Yi Wu Bamboo

I am not very impressed with that tea, so I just kept it and will try it again in ten years time and see how it has changed. I am hoping it will age well because now it is a nasty piece of...

[debunix]

Can't understand calling this tea nasty, because it is such a favorite with everyone I've ever served it to. I can understand why it might not be a favorite if someone prefers the bitterness of a powerful young sheng, or the deep humus/earthiness of a nice aged sheng, but there is nothing offensive that I've ever been perceive in this tea, no matter how badly I brew it.

[bagua7]

Nasty to me is bitterness of young Qi found in young shengs; too much for me; I'd rather the wise Qi from older teas. Each to their own. Btw, I didn't try to offend you.