90s Pu Erh
I’ve had several great Pu erhs from the 2000’s. So I’m used to ‘aged pu erhs’. However a few weeks ago I had my first ‘90s Pu erh and this was really surprising.
The tea had, apart from the typical earthy Pu erh flavors a big mushroom-like taste. The kind of mushrooms you’d expect in a library with a leaking roof.
The taste gave me the idea that the tea wasn’t well stored over the years. However i did not dislake its mushroomy flavor. As it was my first Pu erh from the 90’s I’m very curious to hear your experiences with older pu’erhs…
Could you tell us a little more about this 90s tea you had? There may be a huge difference between an early 90s and late 90s sheng. I find that pu from the early 90s have lost most, if not all, of their floralness/fruitiness and have a natural woody/mossy aroma whereas many shengs from the late 90s (like the 1999 Fuhai posted on EoTs website) still have fruity/floral notes. I think I am preferring late 90s sheng at the moment.
I’m afraid that – apart from it being a shou, not a sheng – I can’t tell a lot more about the Pu erh.
I’ve had it in Barcelona in a really cozy tea place called Caj Chai. There wasn’t much more information about this tea on the menu. There was no further specification than 90s.
Anyways, the woody mossy aroma was really there and indeed no floralness.
I think what you tasted was the base tea itself, rather than its age.
Shou doesn’t change a whole lot, especially not past a decade.
I’ve had mushroomy pu’ers both old and young.
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