Storage experiment: 2016 Essence of Tea, one year in
More tea from the same storage experiment that I’ve been writing about. Today we have more subtle changes in the case of two Spring 2016 teas from Essence of Tea. ...
2002 Yiwu Shunshixing
A relatively inexpensive cake from a smaller factory: this 2002 Yiwu Shunshixing cake is probably a different batch from the one reviewed here, but I thought it would be an...
Flight of 2017 Dianhong Black Tea from Yunnan Sourcing
Five Yunnan Black teas from Yunnan Sourcing: Bulang (Guangbie) Yiwu (Luoshuidong) wild arbor Jinggu (Daqing) old arbor Mengku (Xiao Husai) wild arbor Big Snow Mountain, Mengku 1. Bulang Quite chalky...
Storage experiment: W2T Tuhao AF 2016, one year in
White2Tea’s Tuhao AF was one of the cakes stored in the Puerh hotbox described in my previous post. This is a much more aggressive LBZ-like tea than the Bosch and so...
Storage experiment: 2016 W2T Bosch, one year in
No topic in the puerh tea world is fraught with more controversy and misinformation than that of storage. Each collector must decide which storage system they will use for their tea,...
2005 Dayi Mengsong and Bulang Peacock
I recently bought these two cakes from Mike Petro, a pioneer of the English-language online puerh world. For various reasons, he sold off his entire collection and I picked out...
601-8582 Taiwan vs Malaysian storage
I am a big fan of the 2005 version of 8582, of which I have a couple of Taiwan-stored versions. I’ve tried the 2006 version of 8582, batch 601, but...
2017 W2T “Fuck What You Heard”
5 July 2018 The dry leaf has a striking pungent aroma. Wet, the leaves have a deep sweet pungency with a slight tomato vine or vinegar aroma. Thick, some suds....
Two 1980s 7542, Menghai vs CNNP
The sample on the right is from a vertical tasting of Menghai Tea Factory 7542 recipe organized by Origin Tea a number of years ago. Thanks to Kegon and Wooju...
2009 Yangqing Hao 888 Gongpin Yu Cang
Thanks to Patrick for the chance to taste a younger Yangqing Hao cake. The initial steep is quite a bit lighter and yellow-beige than the norm for my mid-2000s...