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so i have no had this tea in months, it was sitting in my dresser. so it still tastes really good :D

still a yummy tea! i think there’s been a change in the taste… i can add camphor to the taste i think. im not sure though. still its like walking between the trees through a muddy forest (in a good way lol)

so i have not had this tea in a long time and it has been sitting in my dresser beside my bed for a while :( but it still tastes great! :D still has the strong earthy taste :D

i have not drank this tea for a while :P still has a nice and earthy and rose taste :D tastes better for some reason, maybe it aged as bit? i don’t know the brick seems to break apart so i don’t have to chisel it :P

im changing the score :) 90 —→ 100

a yummy tea! :) tastes like strong roses too :) though when brewed it smells a tad bit fishy but for some reason has no fishy taste :) maybe it should be aged more thus why the fishy smell. still a yummy tea. thank you to the staff at Yunnan sourcing and to Scott Wilson

Another blend from YS. I liked this one quite a lot. It’s quite easy to drink young, but still feels like it has the potential to age. Kind of that cereal sweetness, with some astringency but not too much. It’s thick, with a medium high kick factor, and has got a little huigan. Going to pick up a cake of this for sure.

time for a full review :)

the smell of the dry leaf is a lot like my other pu-ehr review :) a nice musty smell

the smell of the steeped tea is nice and smooth with a somewhat smokey smell

the taste is somewhat smokey but has taste of roses and smooth and somewhat like a black tea :)

I am going to keep the score the same :)

I received this as a free sample :) another wonderful tea :) nice and smooth and a tad Smokey in taste :) many thanks to Yunnan sourcing and Scott Wilson for this amazing free sample. :D

Revisiting the 2006 nan jian Phoenix ripe puerh mini brick.

It’s been a few years since I’ve first reviewed it. So wats revisit this tea.

Gongfucha, gaiwan.

Dry leaf: sweet, musty.
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Wet leaf: musty, sweet, camphor, spicy, fermentation(?)
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1x medium rinse.

Light steep; I smell/taste:
(Smell) slight autumn leaves.
(Taste) slight —> salty, camphor(?). light —> clay, autumn leaf, sweet

Medium steep; I smell/taste:
(Smell) light —> camphor, autumn leaf, sweet.
(Taste) slight salty. Medium —> autumn leaf, camphor, sweet.
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Heavy steep; I smell/taste:
(Smell) light —> musty, autumn leaf, sweet
(Taste) medium salty. Medium to strong camphor, autumn leaf, sweet.

All in all. Still a delicious tea.

As for salty taste I think it is just the camphor. Or could be just me or the way I store it. So I don’t blame the tea. Still I’d give it a go. (Rating stays the same)

Where to buy: https://yunnansourcing.com/products/2006-nan-jian-phoenix-ripe-pu-erh-tea-mini-brick

Enjoying some Phoenix ripe brick. It’s been sitting for like 5+ months lol I found it like two weeks ago among my stash! :D a new note! SAND! It’s like a mix of camphor and sand taste. The camphor is strong too!

just finished the rest of this tea up, will buy more in the future!

Ru Yao dragon teapot gongfu:

Dry leaves: smells musty and slightly earthy.

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Wet leaves: smells like wet fall leaves, Forrest floor and earthy. Slightly musty.

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Light steep: I taste light earth and light fall leaves. Medium camphor, No mushrooms and minor minerals.

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Medium steep: I taste earth, medium camphor, medium mushrooms, medium minerals, strong Forrest floor and strong fall leaves.

Quite tasty!

Heavy steep: medium minerals strong earth, strong Forrest floor, strong fall leaves, medium mushrooms and medium camphor.

Extremely tasty!

All in all, this tea is still amazing.

I still rate this tea a 100! Definately recommend this both western and gongfu style! :D

I love this tea! this is the best ripe puehr I ever had

today’s tea: i just love the mushroom and camphor taste :D

I haven’t had this tea in a while either. still tastes great and can be oversteeped

so i used the last bit left over yesterday, and it was just as good as day one :D i have another bar on the way! :)

hmm…. this time around it has a strong camphor taste :P i don’t think there is any shrimpyness but yes, a strong camphor taste :D

maybe because i could break the corners off and the middle did not rinse well?

time for a full review :)

when i smell the brick it smells kinda musty but that’s OK :) when i pry at it, it does come off in some chunks but mostly small ones :P

after i rinse it and steep it the smell is lovely :) then i taste it and it does taste more like mushrooms than camphor i think. also has some sweetness too :D

sometimes i like to suck on the used leaves like a candy and it tastes musty with camphor and mushrooms but that’s all fine and dandy :D

even when getting to the center of the brick, it still tastes nice with little to no shrimpy (fishy) taste :D

keeping score the same :)

what an awesome pu-ehr! I can taste a tad bit of camphor and a lot of mushroom :) although its hard to pry from the brick (as it is dry) there’s like no fishy taste :) (even though I don’t mind the fishy taste) it tastes best when I let it steep for quite a while. many thanks to Yunnan sourcing and scot Wilson for this wonderful tea! :D

Wasn’t sure what to expect with this one. I have several black teas around, including a black tea puerh cake. Usually black tea is about controlling the bitterness, or dumping in milk if all else fails. Wild Purple puerh can be really astringent and this is pretty much the same leaf. So I debated whether to grandpa a bit of this or gongfu, went with the gongfu in xisha clay. The leaves are long and very lightweight, so 3 grams of this is actually a lot of leaf. The usual 100-115 ml of water on the boil, one rinse. Braced myself for bitter.

The results? A floral smelling soup that actually transfers into the cup! Tastes like roses and the wild sweet pea blossoms I liked to nibble on when I was a kid. I am not a chaser after florals in tea, but this flavor is naturally present! Completely smooth with a touch of leather and wood, like a train trunk. Steeping cup after cup, the sweet smell and taste brings tears to my eyes. A harsh day at work melting away.

I don’t give high scores lightly, not that the scoring system is all that meaningful for me, but I really doubt I will ever taste a finer black tea than this.

This tea is quite likeable. It has a nice flavor, some sweetness, a nice bit of astringency and even some huigan. It could be just a little stronger, but it’s not too bad at all. It held up fairly well to a number of infusions. It’s a nice blend, I think it might age like a good Dayi. I am going to order a cake.

Sample from the Terri ‘s box – awesome never ending .
Gongfu
4g 100ml gaiwan 205F
Rinse/15/15/20/30/45 etc
Leaves are long twisted black and some gold. Smells heavenly. This tea is not as heavy sweet as others from YS. Nevertheless I like it. It’s different. Malty, nutty, not sweet, but there is sweetness in aftertaste. Some slight astringency but not unpleasant.
Thank you so much Terri for such a great variety of teas you supplied me with.

When I feel like having something new, I just fetch a pouch from my Terri Box.

She generously sent me what she had left of this precious tea. Delicious little tiny golden snails, so pretty to look at.

Of course, I was curious to compare them to Whispering Pines’s “wee snaily yums” Golden Snail Yunnan Black, already a favourite.

They do look identical, but are completely different in taste. Though I much prefer WP version, this is still yummy, no doubt.

What surprised me the most was to find some smoke in there. Don’t know if my taste buds are playing tricks on me but it’s very noticeable. In a Keemun kind of way.

It’s sweet, but it’s missing that silky barley sugar feel I get from WP.

It’s fuller bodied and maltier, not as delicate and complex. I’m missing the floral and spicy notes I find in WP.

To me, it feels like a good robust black tea, which is something I would seek early in the morning. Just not what I was expecting from what is supposed to be a more mellow and smooth kind of tea.

Maybe I over leafed? Luckily, I still have plenty to try it again.

So yes, compared to WP’s Bi Luo Chun, it looses the battle.

But as a nice breakfast tea, it’s a winner, loved it!

Thank you so much Terri Harlady for giving the chance to try so many teas from Yunnan Sourcing :-)