Show off your Pu!!!!!!!

[auhckw]

2009 – Taetea Golden Brick – Menghai Taetea Ripe Pu-erh - 1kg









Why oh why is the packing so nice...

This is the first time production for this recipe. No samples to try, but I'm buying this for collection and in future a gift (i'm thinking this as 1 of the wedding gifts) for my son (currently 11 months+) when he is big enough to appreciate

[Mr. Usaji]

Wow, 1 kg is a lot of tea to buy without sampling first! I hope the taste is as good as the packaging.

[auhckw]

Last week I bought this:-

Early 90s Gong Ting Ripe Pu-erh - 150g
http://www.teachat.com/viewtopic.php?f= ... 05#p170504

No brand, Unknown maker... but the taste is superb. Couldn't resist and so...

2KG


*Box is not the original box. The original box is just ordinary cardboard box

[debunix]

the taste is superb. Couldn't resist and so... 2KG

That's a LOT of puerh. How may grams do you typically drink in a session?

[auhckw]

the taste is superb. Couldn't resist and so... 2KG

That's a LOT of puerh. How may grams do you typically drink in a session?

Mostly drink alone. Per session, about 5g : 150ml

[debunix]

So 2000g = about 400 sessions at 5g each. That's a lot of puerh!

[auhckw]

2006 Kunming 7581 Ripe Pu-erh Tea Brick

[auhckw]

1995 Aged Raw Tea - Bulang Special Edition
Roughly translated from: 1995年 勐海茶厂 中茶布朗精品 老生茶







The taste is quite old and nice. The liquar is quite redish. I liked it, have to have it.... but a BIG BUT which stops me from buying more.

This tea was stored in China and not in a perfect condition. It has a little white layer (which is sign of fungus). The shop owner said if kept well, the white layer will go away but that may take years.

[TwoPynts]

...It has a little white layer (which is sign of fungus). The shop owner said if kept well, the white layer will go away but that may take years.

Just think of it as a sugar frosted donut!

[shogun89]

This tea was stored in China and not in a perfect condition. It has a little white layer (which is sign of fungus). The shop owner said if kept well, the white layer will go away but that may take years.

Just some white frost due to some wet storage. It wont hurt you nor will it develop into a full out mold. If you like the taste of a wet stored cake then there should be no problem. One thing people commonly do is get a clean toothbrush and scrub the surface of the cake with it. This should remove the majority of the frost.

[auhckw]

Guoyan 2007 Yunnan Chi Tse Beeng Cha Ripe - Yellow Stamp



This beeng is specially custom made for a tea shop here based on his requirements. The owner of the shop bought the whole year 2007 batch for this puerh, so in other words there shouldn't be any of this out there which is not from him. But unfortunately, the owner said he has seen and actually tasted fake which is not similar to his.

Now the taste. When I first tasted this, I was totally impressed by this. This ripe though 2007 tasted like an aged tea. So I asked what is this.

The owner explained, this special recipe is 1/2 fermented. Guoyan used traditional method to do the fermentation, but it somehow didn't fermented fully. The owner said, when this was younger, it tasted like ripe but as time goes by it actually changes it character. It is now slowly changing into aged raw taste. Simply amazing for such a young pu, not to mention ripe turning into raw. The owner said this changed of aged character was just recently which my friend said so too. He bought it long ago and it wasn't like it now.

Totally loved this. Bought 10 pieces, and will buy more if it tasted good at home.

The shop has another same 2007 batch ripe (red stamp) which is special custom made for him. It was good, but not as special as this Yellow Stamp. He has few other custom made for him which are also very good.

[auhckw]

Wife complains not liking to see my tea all over the place. So I got this cupboard yesterday.



Here are some of my stocks (exclude some in the living room and at office) - 5 months of tea collecting...

[Marco]

Here are some of my stocks (exclude some in the living room and at office) - 5 months of tea collecting...

Just 5 months - a little crazy - I like that
Sampling through your nice cupboard would need some time

[auhckw]

95 Spring Xia Guan (Limited Edition)
Roughly translated from: 1995年 下关阿诗玛“春尖”散普







Though this puerh is from 1995, it does not show any aged taste/colour at all but It has a strong fragrance. First taste was bitterness follows by sweetness and aftertaste.

The owner told me that the reason of why it hardly aged was it is stored in China in a wooden box unopened. And in every small box the loose tea is stored in plastic. This according to him maybe the reason of the slow aging.

More info and photos of the unboxing of the big wooden box:-
http://tea-li.com/goods.php?id=221

http://www.ynpuretea.com.cn/bbs/viewthr ... 3D1&page=1

[phuarobert]

Wife complains not liking to see my tea all over the place. So I got this cupboard yesterday.

If she only knew the "value" (in future) she will not complain so much.