Mei Leaf / Chinalife - 1600 Year old Pu-erh
Like all the others who got caught selling too good to be true and WTF not even possible “old tree” tea, the seller is either lying what they got or got swindled at sourcing.
Gosh, would like to see a seller in this situation just say, “hey, we are wrong.” with integrity. Let the tea show it is good. Maybe have a laugh it was apparently old tree.
Until then, they aren’t getting any of my cash as they are either flaming liars or naive/uneducated about what they sell.
The two fake accounts that posted to this thread remind me of another vendor marketing practices.
Well, it’s not the first time that we have a thread about a controversial vendor’s practices, and that users that just got created on Steepster try to derail the conversation.
Look for the usual sings – fake accounts will usually:
– Pop up for the first time on Steepster to play the devil’s advocate on a thread that’s causing headaches to the vendor.
– Try to derail the conversation. They will also be friendly/funny to have people on the vendor’s side.
– Post plain marketing for the vendor.
– Try to cover up a bit (it’s time consuming, and not rewarding, but you still gotta do it if you’re smart enough). They’ll keep doing that for a few weeks/months once the thread dies.
Well I can think of one user in this thread that fits the bill based on that description.
Thank you for saying what I assumed was fairly obvious reading these comments. Maybe I’m just skeptical and bitter, but I thought that immediately reading through these awhile back.
I got my samples of the teas recommended by AllanK from Yunnan Sourcing today! Can’t wait to try something that I trust to be gushu… and then try the Tiger Spirit and see what I think as well. Really happy to see that Rob likes it.
If you got the LBZ or the Lao Man E Hai Lang Hao you will be in for an experience. Don’t stand up too quickly after brewing them and remember the Lao Man E will be quite bitter almost too bitter to drik unless short steeped.
I got this sheng: http://yunnansourcing.com/en/hai-lang-hao/4078-2016-hai-lang-hao-lao-ban-zhang-gu-shu-ancient-arbor-raw-pu-erh-tea-cake-400-grams.html
And this ripe: http://yunnansourcing.com/en/2016-hai-lang-hao-teas/4365-2016-hai-lang-hao-lao-man-e-ripe-pu-erh-tea-brick.html
Sample sizes! Thanks for the warnings. :)
And when it is from Yunnan Sourcing and it says gushu you can be sure it really is gushu. But Scott doesn’t in my experience sell gushu that is from more than about 300 year old trees. Such gushu is dramatically more common than so called 1600 year old tree tea. In fact 1600 year old trees do exist but you can probably count the number of them in all of Yunnan on your fingers and tea from one will be incredibly expensive and probably not even offered for sale through normal channels. It is more likely to be given to the Chinese elites I think. Although I suspect even they have to pay for it. A village with such a tree will be using it for the good of the village. Help in building a road, a hospital, etc.
I bought the entire brick you bought a sample of but it is currently stuck in transit in the no man’s land that is international shipping. I keep hoping it will update in the USA.
Wow, the whole brick! Amazing treasure. I might hang onto my sample for a while before trying it… I think I am too much of a newbie to face it just yet!
Go ahead and drink it. I am interested in hearing how it is. I have a sample here somewhere but I don’t have it planned in the rotation yet.
Hahaha! I have a hellishly busy weekend ahead so perhaps I will make it my reward Sunday night.
A couple weeks ago I pulled down the remaining sample of Haiwan’s “Ultimate” ‘08. It was a gift from a fellow Steepstarian. I didn’t have quite enough to fill my pot, maybe 8g, so I added 2g of Dayi’s ’10 V93. It was very rich tasting, despite fairly dry storage. It tasted much better than when I first tried it. No newspaper taste and it even seemed to have a bit of that HK humidity to it. Dunno why. It was excellent.
Those Wuliangs tend to be a very feisty lot. The ‘09 Tulin Square (taobao) comes in one of those bricks packed for the ages, cast in a die that leaves the logo impression on one side and stylized characters on the other reading Tulin Fang Cha. I had a two day session of 8g in a 150ml gaiwan. It was the best session I’ve had with it. It proved to be extremely durable. The tight packers I’ve started to steep for about 3m. It was very smooth. In fact, it remained smooth with infusions between 15 and 30s throughout, with what a drinking partner noted to be “savory” notes. It is very typically Tulin in taste, which tends to be of varying shades of medicinal, astringent, and camphory. It’s starting to express a bit of melon-musk in the aftertaste. Cheeky and throaty.
Slightly off topic but..
why is his youtube channel called Mei Leaf but his website is called Chinalife? Maybe I don’t understand marketing but from a brand perspective wouldn’t you want to keep them the same or similar?
He’s in the process of a rebrand. China life is his old brand. Mei leaf will be his new one.
If you look at his PDF guides, one of them says its best to eat every few hours (ihttp://chinalifeweb.com/guides/7-steps-to-beat-fatigue/) and another says its best to intermittent fast, not snack, and only eat 2 meals a day (http://chinalifeweb.com/guides/7-steps-to-beat-fatigue/). So which is it?
Not sure how reliable the seller can be if he has an inconsistency on the SAME page.
Also that second guide claims tea is more hydrating than water. How can that be when tea is a diuretic???
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