This raw puer is fantastic. The smell from the cake itself is that of wet grass. Though a very young tea for puer I would still suggest trying it at this early age.I made a total of 23 infusions of this puer, I have never had a tea last so long. Every different infusion had a different flavor to it. The first 5 where more earthy and had a taste of pine. A kind of bitter sweet came with it as well. Also a kind of spice that I cannot seem to place. After the 7th infusion I tasted various fruits, from the watery dragon fruit to pomegranate. This is a very clean tea leaving no negative tastes at all, it also was not very vegatal in nature. I was expecting a more grassy taste because of its young age, but I was gladly mistaken.
I would recommend buying this tea, Hopefully I will be able to try it years later.
On an other note, Sorry I have not been posting much lately. I have been busy working many dance concerts in my theatre and the end of term at my school was extremely hard this year. Also I have been buying gifts for my family and girlfriend, needless to say I haven't had much time to post anything. I will be posting a lot more now, well until I run out of tea to post about.
Happy Holidays all!
Is this the Yunnan Sourcing Ban Zhang? If so, it"s sublime. I still have one cake of this left, need to buy more.
ReplyDeleteYea this was the Yunnan Sourcing Ban Zhang. Wasn't it fantastic. I don't have any left unfortunately. I think we all need to buy more.
ReplyDeleteThey were very, very fresh when I last had them. They really needed 6-8 months to settle in and start to put some weight on. Got to be one of my all time favorite teas.
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