2018 Yunnan Sourcing Nanpo Autumn
Definitely among my more enjoyable sessions with Yunnan Sourcing’s young sheng, this Autumn production from Mengku area near Bingdao is closer to a Spring harvest style. The dry leaf is...
2019 Yunnan Sourcing Hekai
I am trying to figure out a good way to assign numerical ratings to young sheng puerh, since it doesn’t quite make sense, at such an immature stage, to judge...
Malaysian commission Liubao
This is one of the Liubao teas which was recently put up for sale at Teas We Like (link). It was curated by a couple of good friends in Malaysia,...
90s 7581 Kunming Brick
The Kunming 7581 Shou brick is one of the best-known and most well-loved reference products in all of puerh tea. The standard version of the brick made from the 70s...
Yangqing Hao 2012 Yeh Gu
This is a “wild tree” 2012 production by Yangqing Hao from a “protected state forest”. It’s over 1$/g and is not usually available, due to very small inventory. This tea...
70s Shou Brick
Thanks to Wooju for connecting me to this blast from the past. Recently I’ve been exploring different styles of warehoused and piled teas, including Hong kong traditional storage, shou, and...
2007 Xizi Hao Xishangmeishao: 40C storage outcome
Xizi Hao lists this tea as a 2007 spring Kuzhu mountain (Jinggu, Simao) production, although people seem to believe it’s an autumn production. We can find an early tasting of...
1970s Shen Chang Liu Bao
A Liubao tea stored in Malaysia, thank you to Su for making such an extraordinary tasting possible. I’ve been trying a bunch of Liubao recently and it has a wide...
2019 White2Tea Astro Kittens
Unusually for me, I agree with every word of W2T’s description for the Astro Kittens cake. Not only is this the most bitter tea i’ve ever tasted, it is the...
2019 White2Tea INB4 & 2019 is a Gift
I’ve enjoyed sampling White2Tea’s new productions every year because I usually find something that really interests me, maybe something different or unique. Paul is a producer with a very singular...