I really wanted to love this tea, after hearing it compared to Keyyixing and LYM… but it’s just too… yiwu.
This is a great tea, it’s balanced, has a great throat feel and after taste. But at it’s heart it has that powder taste I find off putting in many yiwu teas with age on them. I might come around after the second round of this tea (there was enough in the sample for two)… but I’m coming to the sad conclusion I need to drink up the young yiwus I like… because I’m not a fan of how they age.
If you are into yiwus, especially ones with age, this is a great buy. I haven’t met anyone else who gets geisha powder from yiwu (I presume this is the yiwu floral note)… so I’m assuming this will be a beloved tea for many at a great price. If I wasn’t so broke, I’d be tempted to get a cake just to age in case I ever come around, because the quality of tea is quite enjoyable.
If you need a tea that bites you back… this is not the tea for you. There is a bit of astringency in the form of the after taste of some kind of puckering stone fruit, but no bitterness. The storage this tea was in must be superb, because it’s very clean. To be honest though, part of the enchantment with the Keyyixing for me was the slightly murkier storage that gave it that ocean note.
This is a tea that is clean and will appeal to a wide audience, and has a lot of great qualities… but other than the awesome label (I love spaceships!) there isn’t anything truly unique or outstanding about this brew.
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geisha powder ?
Like fancy elegant face powder to make their faces white :P
Ignore my comment. I dont think i found it powdery. For me it was more like sort of raspberry sweet. I tried to find stonefruits,but not that time. I used gaiwan,but want to try it in yixing next time.
I agree that this is not in the same league as the LYM. That is a very good tea, that I think beats this one in sheer quality of base material and storage. This for me fits more into the easy-drinking category.
I wouldn’t give up on Yiwus with age yet. Alot of what’s available is either obscenely expensive or only so/so in the first place. I’m not exactly sure what you’ve tried and good-quality aged Yiwu definitely isn’t cheap.
A few (not so cheap) but probably good options. The Big Green Tree Yiwus Pu-erh.sk sells.
There’s also samples of something like this which is an example of GFZ with some age. http://www.houdeasianart.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=27&products_id=794
geisha powder ?
Like fancy elegant face powder to make their faces white :P
Ignore my comment. I dont think i found it powdery. For me it was more like sort of raspberry sweet. I tried to find stonefruits,but not that time. I used gaiwan,but want to try it in yixing next time.
I agree that this is not in the same league as the LYM. That is a very good tea, that I think beats this one in sheer quality of base material and storage. This for me fits more into the easy-drinking category.
I wouldn’t give up on Yiwus with age yet. Alot of what’s available is either obscenely expensive or only so/so in the first place. I’m not exactly sure what you’ve tried and good-quality aged Yiwu definitely isn’t cheap.
A few (not so cheap) but probably good options. The Big Green Tree Yiwus Pu-erh.sk sells.
There’s also samples of something like this which is an example of GFZ with some age. http://www.houdeasianart.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=27&products_id=794