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Significance of Resting Young Puer feat Bitterleaf Teas Bitter End Lite

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From experience, I let puer rest as the flavor changes quite a bit. The best rule of thumb that you hear from many tea sellers is to let your puer rest a few weeks after shipping, about as long as it took to ship to you.   After a few weeks, I generally put the tea into the pumidor. I used to drink new teas right away but I have so much and notice tea changes so much, I tend to wait a bit. Shipping does weird things to tea, especially with longer transit times. In the warmer months, I open… Continue reading, hoot!

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2018 Jade Rabbit Sheng Puer from Crimson Lotus Tea

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Here is a tidbit of info that pushes the CAKE IS A SAMPLE agenda if you are into blended regions/grades vs single origin puer. I’m sure you notice this with buying a sample, then getting a cake, or drinking through a cake or two, that there is some variability between sessions. Sometimes it is the weather, water, or the fact you forgot to brush your teeth that morning, but sometimes it is the blended material. One day you get a gaiwan full of stems, other days it is leaf shreds, whereas other days are beautiful. Maocha is weighed out in… Continue reading, hoot!

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July 2018 White2Tea Club feat 2018 Green Hype

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Last year we got 2017 Hype in a White2Tea club box, which I tried it out of the gate and it tasted too young to drink now. When I knew there was a 2018 Green Hype coming, I drank the 2017 Hype and was surprised that it got massively better with a year on it. I’ve been thinking my tastes quite prefer puer with at least a year on it. My tea package had a hard journey. I opened my box, after sitting not even an hour in my parcel locker, to a tea cake that was over 90F. It… Continue reading, hoot!

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Morning Mojo and Bolder Breakfast Puer Black Teas from The Tea Spot

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Continuing on from the review from the other week, I have more of The Tea Spot‘s blends – Morning Mojo and Bolder Breakfast! These two teas are quite good and both puer. Morning Mojo from The Tea Spot Morning Mojo is a blend of puer, black tea, orange peel, and vanilla flavoring. It smells like an orange creamsicle. I used 4 grams of tea, 12oz/350ml mug, and steeped it in boiling water for 3.5 minutes. The flavor is super creamy vanilla. The running theme of Tea Spot’s puer and black tea bases is they give a smooth yet sweet dirty… Continue reading, hoot!

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Simple Steeps by The Tea Spot

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I have been in travel mode this summer, both for tea festivals and escaping the home office as I lack an air conditioner. The Tea Spot sent me some of their teas packaged as Simple Steeps, which are pre-portioned to go teas for $5 a box. I sneaked a few tea tastings while I traveled, but let’s sit down and give them a full tasting. Simple Steeps Matcha I believe I’ve had Tea Spot’s matcha before in their Matcha Fitness set, which came in a cute tiny tin. This time we have matcha in a thin packet which Tea Spot got… Continue reading, hoot!

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June 2018 White2Tea Club feat. 2018 The Thing Is

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I woke up one morning to watch my Instagram story feed to a long multi-piece video of White2Tea scaling a tea mountain with a chicken while telling us the secrets of the gushu. Be sure to watch the playlist video so you got a primer as June 2018’s White2Tea Club is the tea from that mountain.  I’ve been with the White2Tea Club long enough to know these 50 gram cakes are the bomb in quality and tea drunk. Too many people pass on these 50 gram cake months as they see no bang for your buck (but then why… Continue reading, hoot!

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2016 Red Sunset Twin Shou Puer from Bana Tea Company

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I have enjoyed all of Bana Tea’s shou puer. At the last winter sale, I bought a whole bunch of teas from Bana Tea. This 2016 Red Sunset Twin Ripe puer caught my eye as it was a Vesper Chan tea and a 2 pack! I felt I didn’t need 2 cakes, so I split it with James TeaDB. It was simply 1 wrapper over 2 x 200gram cakes stacked together, so it was easy to pass the second cake away. This shou/ripe puer is grade 2-3 Bulang material. The fermented material was rested in Menghai for 2 years before… Continue reading, hoot!

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2012 Bulang Ancient Tree Shou Puer from Healthy-Leaf

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Today’s review is a 200 year old tree Bulang ripe puer. Healthy-Leaf’s 2012 Bulang Ancient Tree Shou Puer is a 357 gram cake that is priced at $49 (at this time). I love Healthy-Leaf’s selection of aged white tea, but I dipped into their shou to experience their range of teas. Dry Leaf and Steeping Method: The dry leaf is sweet and earthy scented. I went 1 gram of leaf to 14ml of vessel size, steeped gongfu style in boiling water. I did 2 rinses. Tasting of Health-Leaf’s 2012 Bulang Ancient Tree Shou Puer First, Second, and Third Infusion: This tea steeps up… Continue reading, hoot!

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2017 Secret Forest Sheng Puer and White from Essence of Tea

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Back in 2017 I did my first Essence of Tea order. I made a very calculated, review-read heavy buy as Essence of Tea is on the pricey side, and a bit more unexplored for me. I snagged 2017 Secret Forest sheng, but more so because I was buying the 2017 Secret Forest White, which is the same material processed differently. I sampled the 2017 Secret Forest White when I was over at a tea friends place and that tea sang to me. What makes this post a bit odd is I first sampled and drafted the review back in February.… Continue reading, hoot!

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2017 Impression Sheng Puer from Yunnan Sourcing

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Yunnan Sourcing‘s Impression series have been blended to be an affordable ager. Years back I tried the 2012 and 2014 Impression, both which were floating around in tea community Traveling Tea Boxes. At this time, all the Impression cakes are $23-$34.50 for 357grams, which seems to attract unsuspecting new tea drinkers to a cheap young puer out of Yunnan Sourcing’s huge collection. With that, this tea has a rep in the tea community as BITTER, harsh, strong, gut bombing toilet bowl cleaners that scare tea drinkers who are used to a more gentle tea. Now it is 2018. I have… Continue reading, hoot!