Official Pu of the day

[auhckw]

2003 Dayi Bada High Mountain Raw - I'm loving this. It gives a nice aroma, taste fruity. Not so smooth yet, but with aging, this may be nice to drink.

[auhckw]

1992 Fang Cha Raw - Colour looks age. A bit bitter with wet taste. Ok to drink if you can accept the wet taste. Problem. No box. Fang Cha should have box. This is naked

[auhckw]

1997 Wild Yiwu Zhang Xiang Raw - This is from a small factory/unknown producer. Most probably the most talked about tea in the tea shop. This has strong kick with very strong Zhang Xiang (camphor) taste. This can last many brew. As it goes lighter (15th brew onwards), it will taste sweet with the camphor.

When this was in y97 it cannot be drank cause too strong and smoky. Nobody wants it. Over the years it has aged well. Price from then to today have gone up about 7000% (list price). It is now one of the fav tea in the shop...







The shop claims that the 2 versions above are the same, but it is obviously not the same as the colour of the cover is diff. The darker cover tasted better so the customers said.

[auhckw]

<will reupload the photos after i get permission from shop to post>

[Drax]

Yep... I would definitely be broke.

So awesome, thanks as always for sharing all the gorgeous pictures! I'm very jealous of all the stuff you're getting to try and learn..., wow!

[TomVerlain]

looks like a really really nice tea shop. Lots of stock and very beuatiful. I could spend a lot of afternoons there....

[wyardley]

1992 Fang Cha Raw - Colour looks age. A bit bitter with wet taste. Ok to drink if you can accept the wet taste. Problem. No box. Fang Cha should have box. This is naked

A lot of times people store them naked, because the box has some cellophane in it which slows down the aging. Also, the box can get a little musty over time.

I have seen different things about what year certain patterns show up. The ones I have (supposed to be late 80s, but could be early 90s) are 100g divided into equal sized squares.

[MarshalN]

1996 CNNP Raw (Sorry forgot the chinese name) - Something went very wrong with this. The sample doesn't seem like a 1996 tea. Taste and looks so young. Not sure where is the problem. The staff is not sure, have to check with the boss next time.

Green in Orange, it says in Chinese. Looks terrible

[tieguanyin]

1996 CNNP Raw (Sorry forgot the chinese name) - Something went very wrong with this. The sample doesn't seem like a 1996 tea. Taste and looks so young. Not sure where is the problem. The staff is not sure, have to check with the boss next time.

Green in Orange, it says in Chinese. Looks terrible

In what way?

[teaisme]

looks so yellow....

[nickE]

EoT Nannuo and the Shu sample.

I will say that this Shupu is very different from anything I've tried. It's great, though. Nice mouthfeel, great huigan, sweet woodsy flavors and some sharp fruitiness in the background. Actually, this is probably the longest huigan I've ever had in a Shu.

Tried the Nannuo yesterday. I need to retry it before I say anything. There were some good moments and some "meh" moments. Seemed to take a while to get going and then died off pretty quickly.

I'll try again with higher leaf/water ratio soon.

[bearsbearsbears]

looks so yellow....

I think his camera needs a white balance correction.

[MarshalN]

Yeah a white balance issue, but the leaves don't look too hot either

[auhckw]

This is puerh also

[auhckw]

looks so yellow....

I think his camera needs a white balance correction.

The photos that I take in teashops are from my BB Torch phone. Lousy camera. So sorry if there is white balance problem