“This is a sipdown of a sample I got as part of the Canton Tea Club. I haven’t had puerh in a little while now. It brews a honey-colored liquor. There’s not too much going on here. It’s got a...” Read full tasting note
A small puerh cake pressed for Canton in the remote mountains of Yunnan .
This raw puerh cake is made entirely of the 2012 first flush leaves from wild, high-growing tea trees that are up to 80 years old. The liquor has a bright, fresh aroma that, within a few years, will age gracefully into a cake with sweet orchid notes. The taste is brisk with the lightest astringency. It will mellow, maturing into an excellent and refined puerh tea.
Canton Tea Co is a London-based tea company trading in high grade, whole leaf Chinese tea. We have exclusive access to some of the best jasmine, white, green, oolong, black and authentic puerh teas available. In our first year, we scooped Six Golds at the 2009 Guild of Fine Food Great Taste Awards. Our Jasmine Pearls won the top three star gold award, endorsing it as the best available in the UK.