Misty Peak Teas

This tea is fantastic. I’m really having trouble criticizing anything about it Nicholas. Yet, oddly enough, I’m also having trouble finding anything “new” in this tea. It’s a great tea for sure and it gives you everything you’ve ever wanted in a Pu’er. So why is this one amazing? Because it does every little thing it’s supposed to do perfectly and nothing more. Every single aspect is empowered and bursts forth. You really get a feel for the leaves’ essence, which is brought out beautifully. It’s a masterpiece. Second best tea on Steepster and best Pu’er by far.

I have to admit, I am sorry to say actually, I’ve had this tea for a month’s time and am only opening it just now. In the first moment I smelled this, I knew I would appreciate it. Such a lovely toasted grain and fruity aroma! Or like nectar heavy flowers in my mother’s garden. I can’t believe this tea isn’t actually full of honey and flowers haha!
Mmm ambrosia. I don’t think I’ve ever had an oriental beauty I liked so well, especially not from ordering on the internet.
I need to drink this with others next time instead of being so selfish, that would be my biggest criticism! Haha!

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Thanks for the fast shipping.

I just tried this for the first time recently. I ordered a sample and it was great! Can someone tell me if the bings are any good?

I initially reviewed this in the wrong place and was asked to move the review here.

This is the best raw tea I have drank in ages. It is very sweet in nature. There was almost no bitterness, even in the first steep. I really didn’t notice any bitterness at all. It was not a weak tea. It had a nice golden color to it. If this is a good example of Yiwu teas I like them. It is a pity Misty Peak doesn’t make ripe tea too.

I brewed this eight times in a 120ml gaiwan with 7g leaf and 200 degree water. I steeped it for 10 sec, 10 sec, 15 sec, 20 sec, 30 sec, 45 sec, 1 min, and 1 min 15 sec. I might go back to this tea later for a few more steeps.

First let me just say I am new to Pu’er tea. I’ve tried some other Pu’er from misty peak teas that I loved, but this might be my favorite. It has a soft flavor, and fills the drinker with peace and tranquility. Truly an uplifting tea.

This is the best raw tea I have drank in ages. It is very sweet in nature. There was almost no bitterness, even in the first steep. I really didn’t notice any bitterness at all. It was not a weak tea. It had a nice golden color to it. If this is a good example of Yiwu teas I like them. It is a pity Misty Peak doesn’t make ripe tea too.

I brewed this eight times in a 120ml gaiwan with 7g leaf and 200 degree water. I steeped it for 10 sec, 10 sec, 15 sec, 20 sec, 30 sec, 45 sec, 1 min, and 1 min 15 sec. I might go back to this tea later for a few more steeps.

Got to try this one the other day. I followed their brewing instructions using water temperature of 185F. This was the first time I’ve used a temperature that low for pu’erh. I had good results with it and while it might just be because this tea is so good, I’d still like to try that out with some of my other shengs.

This tea was ready to drink after only one rinse. Some shengs are a bit rough and lots of time I do a few rinses/steeps before I even start drinking. Already after one rinse this tea was smooth and silky on the tongue with no bitterness or smokiness at all. There was a bit of sweetness in the first infusion.

I did quite a few infusions and didn’t keep track of them all but I enjoyed this tea a lot. The apricot notes were stronger in later infusions when the leaves opened up. I noticed peppery notes on the 4th infusion and later.

I had quite a few infusions (each one being only 2 oz approx.) . However, even with all that tea I did not feel a caffeine rush or get a bit jittery. I felt calm and relaxed.

Overall, an excellent tea!

I’ve been enjoying this tea this morning while cleaning my apartment. Lately I watched a few episodes of Hoarders and that show is really scary! I wonder how many of us are tea hoarders? At least I have no problem getting rid of things I don’t like but 2015 seems like a good year to focus on paring down the collection. I’d like to 1/2 the teas I have now and stop buying so many more.

So… on to this sample. It’s a little rolled ball of sheng puer. For such a young tea it is fairly mellow when you keep the steeping times short. When the steeping times are a bit longer (like 45 sec to 1 min) it gets very assertive and somewhat bitter. I guess it depends on how you like your tea. Around 15 seconds it is nice and earthy, mostly sweet with a bit of lemon. If I was in the market for another sheng to drink immediately, I would definitely consider a beeng. I did get a package of their mao cha which will suffice for now.

I like this tea a lot. It’s smooth and easy drinking. Almost sweet. Tasty.

Word of warning: do not oversteep as it become a bitter mess. UGH.

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This one is goooooood.

Smooth.

Easy drinking.

And it gave me a really good calm that went a very long way today.

This is my other puerh that i’ve been drinking for the other half of today. I’m not sure if i’ll have time for a third one tomorrow but we’ll see :) I’m still working my way through this one, hoping that i don’t crash heh. This was one i picked up the other day when misty pines was offering 2 for the price of one..so i nabbed it, so that i could have an extra for my tea sister terri!

Initial impressions are that this is similar to my favourite puerh from mandala but without the smoke. instead this is on the sweeter side of things. More to come later as i have more of this over the course of the afternoon.

I’ve been drinking this tea most of the day. I’m trying to get down to 100 this weekend but i’m trying to get through at least a couple of my puerh samples since i’m always super neglectful about drinking them. I’ve got an overnight tonight, so i figured i was safe to drink a few puerhs since if they kept me up, it wasn’t a bad thing haha

This was a sample sent to my by misty peaks and i’m grateful for the chance to try it out. I don’t have much to say about this, beyond the fact that i’d consider buying a cake of this. :) It was a really enjoyable experience and just tied the day together. there was a sweetness… just.yum.

Having this tea again. I was unpacking my pumidor and putting the tea into cardboard boxes for my move to a new apartment so I thought I would drink this. It is hard to say if a year and a half or so in my pumidor has improved this tea. It is still sweet in nature with little bitterness. It has not developed much in the color of the tea soup that is for sure although it looks a touch darker. There is a moderate amount of astringency to this tea. It still has that characteristic apricot sweetness that in my experience Misty Peak raw puerh has.

I steeped this eight times in a 120ml gaiwan with one rolled puerh or 8.4g leaf in 200 degree water. I gave it a 10 second rinse and a 10 minute rest. I steeped it for 5 sec, 5 sec, 7 sec, 10 sec, 15 sec, 20 sec, 25 sec, and 30 sec.

This tea was phenomenally good. It came as close to a 100% as any raw puerh I have ever drank. From the first steep it was smooth and a little sweet (not meaning sugar sweet) tasting. There was none of that bitterness often associated with sheng puerh, It only got better with each steeping. There were a lot of complex notes to this tea but I failed to pin them down exactly because I was concentrating on a game of Runequest at the time. They were sweet notes but I don’t know just how to describe them. There was just a hint of bitterness in the second steeping. By the third steeping this bitterness was nearly gone. By the fourth steeping the bitterness was a faint memory. By the sixth steeping this tea was just smooth, no other word is necesary.

I steeped this six times over a period of hours. The tea had more steepings to it but I have to get up tomorrow and I was steeping 6 oz each steeping. I steeped it in a 200ml Yixing teapot with 200 degree water and one puerh ball, about 7g of leaf. I steeped it for 10 sec, 10 sec, 15 sec, 30 sec, 30 sec, and 1 min. This is right up there with the 2014 Wild MOnk from Mandala in taste and quality.

Dry – Mellow honey sweetness, creamy, faint floral/fruity notes.
Wet- Honey sweet, floral and fruity notes, some vegetal notes that faintly reminds me of artichoke, cream.
Liquor – Yellow to light amber

The first few steeps are very mellow and gentle in most notes, mostly honeyed sweetness with a very pleasant creamy/buttery body and even taste, it has some vegetal notes in the middle and slowly develops mellow floral and fruity notes that linger.

Following steeps are more apparent in floral and fruity notes, the body keeps being buttery and has some savory notes that are very pleasant and even relaxing. It starts to be less subtle in the vegetal notes and has some astringency, the sweetness stays in the broth, but takes a backseat to the vegetal and very mellow tobacco notes.

Overall a very pleasant and mellow Yiwu Sheng. I forgot to rate this tea a while a go and I found the samples again. This is a great tea if you like Yiwu teas in general or if you enjoy teas with smooth/buttery mouth feel.

Autumn 2013 Sample
I’ve only ever had one raw puerh before, from Teavivre, so getting an opportunity to try this is a treat. Something I noticed, is that while to me ripe puerhs smell like pond water, this wet leaf smells like a fish tank, a little cleaner and greener and fresher than pond water.

6g, ~5oz water, 180F, 10 sec rinse, and then 15,15,18,18,20 sec steeps. I then switch it up, and do 1,2,3 minute steeps.

The first couple if steeps are dark vegetables with lemon zest and the barest font of apricots. I can’t quite put my finger on the exact veggie this tastes like, I know it, it’s on the tip of my tongue, but I can’t remember. Darker than spinach, sort of meatier or fleshier than kale, more complex than green beans.

Third steep is my favorite. The veggies are very muted and the peach and apricot come out to play. By the forth steep, though, the fruit tones down, the veggies crank up and they meet with the veggies just slightly powering over the fruit. And there’s also a tough of a mineral note.

Sixth steep, I decided to start experimenting. One minute seems to pull the fruit back out and mellow the veggies, and the result is soothing and calming. It just continues to get sweeter through the 9th steep. The mineral note sticks around, sort of grounding the tea, and adding a depth and complexity that might not be there otherwise. But mostly it apricot and peaches. Maybe some pear.

Meh, just not my thing I guess. I did my first gong fu styled brewing with my new tiny teapot and my new teacups. I tried three steepings of it and every one tasted the same… vegetal, almost flavorless. Maybe my pallet is just too unrefined but it tasted like grass-water.

With the heavenly sounds of the Guzheng playing in the background, I decided to write a review for this tea. It truly looks beautiful as a soft compression brings out the beauty in each and every tea leaf. Truly, a piece of art to look at. The soft compression allows me to break off 6 grams while maintaining the integrity of the leaves – always a good sign. I briefly wash the tea and pour 100 mL (+/- 5 mL or so) of water into the gaiwan and watch the two mediums intertwine. I feel a great tranquility during the steeping as the beautiful tea leaves work their magic along with the sounds of the guzheng. The wet leaves have a soft delightful aroma that I cannot describe, but have found it common among yiwus. The soup has a bright golden colour and exhibits no cloudiness whatsoever. The processing was, clearly, very well done and in a clean environment. The soup is thick in the mouth with a charming mouthfeel. Vegetal, citrus notes and a slight smokiness seem to come to mind when drinking the soup, but perhaps what I find most enjoyable is the teas softness. I find that this tea is very enjoyable and is comparable to some gushus out there that cost 2-3 times more. I stand behind this tea. 85/100

P.S I will definitely be drying one of the leaves and adding it to my scrapbook!

Autumn 2013 Yiwu Mountain 200g cake

Sometimes you read these descriptions of wines, cigars, and of course tea. “Oak, vanilla, blackberry, cocoa,” etc. Then you go to try it and it’s like, ummm, yeah, not really.

Well, let me tell you this. PEACHES PEACHES PEACHES. Honestly, if I was blindfolded and someone put the wet leaves to my nose, I would swear on my life it was freshly sliced peaches with a slight hint of apricot as it cools down. And if I proceeded to taste, still blindfolded, I would swear i was drinking mashed up peaches with hot water.

This is just fabulous sheng. No bitterness. No astringency. No smoke. Pure sweet nectar.

The only thing that prevents me going higher is maybe a lack of complexity or 2nd or 3rd wave of flavors. But what’s there is absolutely delicious.

Make sure you brew at a lower temp than most shengs. My first brew was too hot, and it tasted flat. You need to be in the 180 range. 10-15 seconds in the gaiwan.

The leaves are gorgeous. You can tell this is artisan craftmanship and made with passion.

I’ve been drinking this one for a couple of hours now. It is a very mild Sheng, starting out with a creamy vanilla texture, then gradually taking on a sweetness, a light floral, & then giving way to more of a mineral quality.
It also has great Chaqi, very restorative, & uplifting! I’m in a great headspace!
Much thanks to Nicholas for the sample!
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I’m writing this in May (late Spring) 2014. Without the aid of time travel, I’m not sure how this 2014 Autumn puerh could possibly exist yet.