After drinking so many mediocre examples of 90’s puerh teas recently, these cakes have really revived my faith in aged puerh. These cakes were ordered by a Hong Kong tea merchant in 1991 from Menghai tea factory as a higher than normal quality 7542 blend. They were placed into traditional storage for several years without wrappers, before being taken out and wrapped for sale. They were bought by a Malaysian tea merchant in 2003 and have been stored since then in Malaysia.

This combination of light traditional Hong Kong storage, followed by 10 or so years in Malaysia has produced an incredibly clean tea, with deep aged flavours and a vibrant, complex flavour and mouthfeel. This is definitely one of the best stored examples from this era that I have ever come across. It’s origins of traditional Hong Kong storage are barely detectible when drinking the tea & the dry leaves display an oily sheen that only comes with very clean storage.

I guess I don’t need to say any more, but I can say that these cakes are really a refreshing taste of a certain quality of aged puerh tea that is very difficult to find anywhere for sale. I can highly recommend it.

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