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“With the growing prices of pu’er, huang pian has been gaining popularity over the past few years. Most western-facing vendors have been focusing on offering much more affordable versions of...” Read full tasting note
“Gongfu! It’s been probably about a year since I last broke out this massive brick of raw puerh so it’s definitely interesting to see what small changes have happened in that time. I’ve always found...” Read full tasting note
There’s no such thing as too much tea, right? If you agreed to that statement, then you can’t complain that this brick is 1kg. We thought about going bigger, but didn’t want to burden you with any heavy lifting just to collect tea mail.
This tea is a fusion of our 2018 Year of the Dog and 2019 Year of the Pig Yiwu huang pian material. The result is an incredibly fruity-sweet tea, both smooth and tangy, that costs you less than 15 minutes of parking downtown each time you drink it.
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Yunnan SourcingWith the growing prices of pu’er, huang pian has been gaining popularity over the past few years. Most western-facing vendors have been focusing on offering much more affordable versions of material coming from highly revered areas and old tree material, but Go Big or Go Home while hailing from Yiwu breaks this trend by being an even more affordable alternative to an already very affordable tea.
I received a free sample of this with an order and now having finished the bag I can say that I’m a fan. As you’d expect from an Yiwu, the tea is sweet, honied, maybe a bit fruity, with perhaps hints of vanilla and a woodiness that appears in the later steeps. Bitterness is virtually nonexistent. Depending on the water you’re using, brewing temperature, how broken your leaf is and how hard you’re pushing the tea, you can start to get some dryness and astringency in the later infusions, but overall the tea is very forgiving to brew.
While simple and easygoing, the tea is not lacking in strength, body or longevity, nor did I find it boring. I think for the price Go Big or Go Home performs really well; better than many teas costing several times more that I’ve tried. Ultimately a daily drinker as you’d expect, but I liked it enough to buy two bricks as presents.
Flavors: Drying, Fruity, Honey, Sweet, Vanilla, Wood
Gongfu!
It’s been probably about a year since I last broke out this massive brick of raw puerh so it’s definitely interesting to see what small changes have happened in that time. I’ve always found this tea to have a really distinct sweet juicy pear note and that’s actually what inspired today’s complementary tea pairing of fresh Bartlett pears. That pear note was still present in the tea, and I found myself surprisingly more relieved by that than I had expected to be! It’s a bit deeper and more dense, and not quite so bright or floral; but it works well – especially with the soft astringency and notes of darker honey that were also present this session. I have a lot of this tea, so I’ll have to remember to revisit it more frequently!
Tea Photos: https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci5doByu__F/
Song Pairing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLhOSrokQuE
