2014 Teaside Fox
A second tea produced in Thailand by Tea-side. The wet leaf is very rich, pungent, no geosmin, no funkiness. Tomato vine. Oily, sweet, shows youth through its strength rather than...
2013 Teaside Unicorn
Sweet and pungent dry leaf, with no off notes, no storage notes, very good and very clean. 5g/100ml gaiwan. Very good wet leaf smell, very clean, reminds me of a...
2015 Biyun Hao Yibi Gushu
The 2017 BYH Yibi was one of my favourite new shengs of that year, and it prompted me to co-curate, together with Pedro and Mr Chen (maker of BYH), this...
Dong Ding Oolong, 30 years of age
Thank you to Benoit for sending me a tea that I don’t have much experience with. All of the Dong Ding that I’ve had thus far has been ultra green,...
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...