Farmerleaf Gulan 2020
Recently I have been really impressed with and appreciative of the informative videos produced by William Osmont over at Farmerleaf. It is unusual to find a tea-maker as transparent, as...
2012 Silver Dayi
I was asked by a friend to evaluate the 2012 Silver Dayi sold at Generation Tea as a possible fake. The vendor does not have a good reputation, but from...
1701-7542 Storage Comparison: 4 years, 32C vs 23C
Another followup tasting, compare with the June 2020 tasting. The heated tea has a slight funk-ferment dry aroma and a sweet attractive wet aroma. Good but restrained aroma on liquor....
2013 Tea Urchin Spring Gaoshanzhai
After reading Wooju’s post about regions and Puerh terroir, I was inspired to try a sample of a well-known Tea Urchin cake of Spring Gaoshanzhai. This is a relatively high...
2008 Yeeon Taste of Hong Kong
An inexpensive cake from the Yeeon tea company in Hong Kong and made by the 永年茶廠 factory, this tea gives a very clear idea of the traditionally stored sheng puerh...
2016 Essence of Tea Huangshanshu
Stored in mylar for 5 years at 32C. This was kept rather low in humidity, around 55%, and so did not age as quickly as other teas kept in the...
2016 W2T Treachery II
Stored in Mylar at room temp. Dry leaf is pungent, high pitched sweetness with sharp tomato vine pungency. Quite thick, clearly gushu, slightly juicy, smaller leaves with a significant proportion...
Yangqing Hao 2021 Tasting
I’ve been re-tasting YQH teas for the past few weeks, and I also ordered some new samples from YQH to test some productions which I never got the chance to...
Storage comparison: 2004 YQH Dingji Yesheng
The 2004 Dingji Yesheng is one of the better (if not the best) YQH production and is described very well in James’ interview with Yang. I have had a cake...
2016 W2T Bosch, with 4 years of heated storage
This is another post in the series starting with the one-year test and the two-year test. I stored some of the W2T 2016 Bosch, a raw puerh, in two different...