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This tea was a ‘HECK YEAH’
The vegetable sweetness was quite interesting to have a smokey finish, but what I like most about it is the region it came from. That alone was pretty cool. I got schooled about how to pronounce it at the What Cha event, but whatever :)
This is more like a Chinese tea in the way that it looks and brews, yet it has freshness that reminds me to new Japanese teas. All together this is just a unique tea that is fun to try though it isn’t the time for green teas for me so I may have to see about it come spring if they produced a first flush picking as those are my favorite greens!

Pu’erh TTB 2015 Tea #4

So I drank this tea five months ago and since that time I have probably drank over 300 different variations of tea leaf which makes this an interesting revisiting of a tea.
I read my past review before drinking this which was probably a mistake because I smell the muskiness of this tea; maybe it’s just me, but a lot of ripe pu’erh have this scent.
Now that I can steep pu’erh tea the way that I like it, I am able to brew this in a way that isn’t too dark but gives the 30% sweet / 60% wet earth and 10% darkness. I’m too lazy to look into it, but I believe I read that loose ripe is sweeter than cake form or the other way around. Regardless, this is clearly a step above all but two other ripes I have drank since five months ago which is to say that this is a top notch ripe. If I could eliminate my personal preference I would be able to make comments on how the bottom of my mouth has a more appealing taste than the back of my mouth which is were the lingering taste seems to come from (maybe it has to do with taste buds).
Like last time, this is a great pu’erh to pair with chocolate.

Pu’erh TTB 2015 Tea #3

After drinking the Green Peacock yesterday this just seemed to be the next one for me to try. The first thing that is easily noticed is that it is much darker, though I am not intending to compare the two as they are different but that is what I will do. The mouth feel isn’t as smooth or lingering as the Green Peacock which is one of my favorite parts about pu’erh. This is a tea that the first six steeps did not appeal much to me because the slight bitterness needed to be pulled out and the deep taste of sheng was a bit stronger than I like. For those who like a stronger sheng this would be a great option, but people like me who want a cotton candy that has been fermented and looks like leaf this is not that.

Pu’erh TTB 2015 Tea #2
It was about one week before this TTB was announced to have a new round that I asked someone here about Berylleb’s Peacock teas because I have enjoyed the style quite bit. As I was about to buy four samples, a few weeks later, I noticed EOT provided two for the TTB :)
This tea is potent from the first steep which is nice right now because I need the strength. The tip of my tongue gets a slight sweetness during the taste of the liquid and as it goes down the sides of my tongue to my cheek experience a passing camphor taste which is quite enjoyable. I’m not sure which portion of the cake I had as it was broken off nor how it was stored for the last 2 months…. and I don’t care, if a tea taste good than it taste good. I’m looking forward to trying the purple peacock now!
Now I’m window shopping….
https://www.essenceoftea.com/tea/puerh-tea/2012-eot-qishenggu-400g-puerh-tea.html has my attention :)

Pu’erh TTB 2015 Tea #1
This was the first tea that I tried because I figured getting home from work that this would last a good two hours while I go through the box, sure enough it did.
Drinking it here: https://instagram.com/p/9mclSPxYHl/
This is smooth with what I call the ‘aged vegetable sweetness’. While drinking this I have one constant thought throughout the 18 steepings of this tea, other than ‘this gets darker with each steep’, being that this tea taste very similar to the 1999 Golden Bud tea I bought from Royal Tea Bay. I’m not sure if that is good or bad because the price difference per cake is $150 which is a pretty big difference. Unfortunately this is one of the first times that I can comment on price holding me back from purchasing a sheng, but we shall see when I buy a sample of Last Thoughts :)

I hate chamomile… but this came with the Halloween sampler pack from M&Ks Tea and I had to try it.

10:30pm, this was just the right time to try it out. The first thing I noticed was all the little pieces of flowers rather than the large tops. While I like the appearance more this way, they are the HARDEST of all things to clean from a steeping device that I have ever encountered.

To my surprise, a great surprise at that, this tea is great. While sipping this, I’m actually thinking about buying more because this is a great tea to drink before bed. The apple taste is right there mixed in with the stronger notes of chamomile, yet it isn’t as nasty as what I remembered. There is a sweetness to this tea that is rather pleasant as well. Overall, this is an impressive tea that makes me question if other chamomile blends are decent.

2015 Autumn batch:
I’m pretty sure this may be different than the past years. The leaf is large for a Japanese sencha.
https://instagram.com/p/9NFnYExYCN/ (middle left)
There are roughly four different shades between the leaf as it is dry as well which looks pretty before being steeped. This is a smooth and easy to brew sencha, but I believe the reason that this would be something to get over the other ‘Sencha of the" series would be it’s slightly less vegetable taste which is replaced with a tiny bit of dryness that reminds me of fall leaves.
I enjoy that the ‘fall’ / ‘autumn’ taste of this tea is not provided by a roasted taste, rather it is done by having the taste of the dry leaf that is somewhat dead; not that this doesn’t taste fresh, one just has to try it.

I ended up drinking all of this within two days and it is one of the few sencha that I have resteeped as well.

First, I need to just point out that Yunomi is growing to be something much bigger and better than what it was when I had the group buy earlier this year. Their new site, the new cultivators, and just… everything! I’m impressed and excited to see what is to come.

Anyways, I was very excited when I saw a tencha sampler. A must buy for me :)
https://instagram.com/p/89qYYRRYGq/
This is one very interesting experience. The taste is pure Japanese tea freshness. The odd part though is how it taste like matcha which is probably the way everyone has always tencha, rather than loose leaf. It’s somewhat hard to explain without sounding nasty, but to tencha taste like a non thick version of matcha. Smooth with an ending velvety vegetable taste that lingers briefly. This was the first of the three that I have drank and I have no negative remarks beside the pricing of tencha which is understandable.

This should probably be called something like ‘delicate Russian black beauty’

First, this tea has a 194f recommendation which made me think it would be less vibrant than other blacks that get the killer 205f. Seems I was right because this tea is just delicate overall once brewed. During the What Cha tea tasting event I hosted, this was at the top for sure. The smooth taste mixed with a light color and an aroma that needed focus to understand it… just a wonderful tea.
Where many black teas have that ‘waking me up’ taste from the boldness, this tea has a calming sweetness to it.

This is a black tea that non black tea drinkers might find very enjoyable :)

A few nights ago I was curious about this tea because I read about black tea and jasmine mixed awhile back. Seeing that this was a mixture of three different black teas and jasmine with extract as well, I was skeptical because I’m not big on Ceylon tea; in fact I dislike it.
Here’s what I found out about this tea though, the jasmine is a feel not a taste. Pretty interesting to be honest. Take two things I don’t generally like, black tea an floral taste, and something wonderful is created… had me all kind of confused.
The jasmine feeling in the mouth was very noticeable while the black tea mixture had a smooth astringency (meaning it didn’t interrupt the flavor).
A purchase made with doubts turned something quite delicious :)