Heated Storage 2017-2024
Here we see the same tea, Dayi’s batch 502 of the 2005 8582 recipe, stored for 11 years in Taiwan, followed on the right with 8 years of room temp...
2003 Chenyuan Hao Youle
5g/95ml, Toronto filtered tap. This tea is quite unique among the early CYH productions. In its taste profile, I find what some might call a strong “tea taste” or maybe...
Blind sample tasting
5.5g/85ml Toronto filtered tap. Blind sample from Paul Z. Dry leaf smells slightly smoky and sweet; made from small tippy leaves. Initial steep shows a touch of char, and plenty...
2005 BYH Yiwu
5.8g/90ml Toronto Filtered Tap. Another cake from BYH, this time the 2005 Yiwu, with almost 20 years of storage in Taizhong. Beautiful dried fruit aroma on dry leaf. Interesting camphorous...
2004 DTH Yiwu
5.8g/90ml Toronto filtered tap. Damp leaves are sweet-smelling, woody incense. Initial steeps have some slight smoke, and a tiny bit of char. Main steeps are thick, bittersweet, warming along the...
2004 BYH Yiwu
This cake was stored in Taiwan until 2023. The dry cake has a beautiful pungent resinous perfume. Sweet, dried fruit, deep breathing. Leather, opens the throat. Resinous and juicy, with...
2017 W2T Pussy, 6 years’ storage at 23C/64RH
Dry leaf still has a strong pungent flowery/honey fragrance, but the sweetness is now darker than before. Wet leaf is sweet with a slight tomato vine green pungency. Not woody...
2016 EOT Huangshan and Manlin
I have stored the 2016 Essence of Tea Puerh club teas in 32C mylar storage for the past 7 years, and they have certainly evolved… Several of the teas, like...
2015 vs 2016 DTH Yiwu Gushu
3.8g/60ml gaiwans, Toronto filtered tap. In preparation for the DTH pre-order I was asked to compare the two youngest (and therefore cheapest) DTH Yiwu Gushu teas, as these are still...
2005 Dayi 8542
5.3g/85ml gaiwan, Toronto filtered tap This is a cake I bought a little more than 5 years ago. It was very harsh, still somewhat smoky, bitter, and with a pronounced...