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“Gongfu! I wasn’t totally sure what to expect from this tea, but it had such a thick yet soft liquor with a surprisingly delicate and gentle taste profile. Very fruity with quite fresh, aromatic...” Read full tasting note
“This is a very green raw puerh. Light vegetal notes throughout the session. I had to push the tea a bit to get a lot of flavor out of it. I started the session with 195F water, but boiling the...” Read full tasting note
“This raw puerh comes in loose leaves. The leaves are picked from wild tree thrived in Ba Da Shan. The old 6 major mountains that produced high quality puerhs.
This puerh is very well balanced in terms of bittersweet, thickness , complexity. A nice mix of floral and light fruity can be savored. Longer steeping tea is prefered for this young puerhs. It can go very stable for at least 6-7 steeps. Unlike those very strong taste puerhs, it is light and smooth. You can drink for many rounds without growing tired of the strong taste. This is one of the best options for light taste puerh drinkers." Crafted Leaf Tea website
Origin: Ba Da Shan , Yunnan
Date of Pick: 2017 Spring
Elevation : 1800m
Bud to Leaf Ratio: 1 bud : 1 / 2 leaf
Taste: Very well balanced in terms of bittersweet, thickness , complexity. A nice mix of floral and light fruity can be savored. Longer steeping time is prefered for this young puerhs. It can go very stable for at least 6-7 steeps. Unlike those very strong taste puerhs, it is light and smooth. This is one of the best options for light taste puerh drinkers.
Net Weight : 357 g
Tea Bush : Mengku large-leaf tea bush species (about 150 years old)
Caffeine: Medium caffeine (less than 20% of a cup of coffee)
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I wasn’t totally sure what to expect from this tea, but it had such a thick yet soft liquor with a surprisingly delicate and gentle taste profile. Very fruity with quite fresh, aromatic floral top notes and undertones. The fruit notes were decidedly in the stonefruit realm; a mix of more Japanese white peach and slightly richer and more dense nectarine puree. Toss in a little honeysuckle and sweet grass, and that about sums up the session – and what a nice session it was. Super approachable fruit notes, and just a really nice balance of sweetness. Though I wasn’t carefully tracking infusions, it also steeped for quite a long time as well before the leaf was tapped out.
Tea Photos: https://www.instagram.com/p/DBUF6NXJsLV/?img_index=1
Song Pairing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIBO8u_fQAo
This is a very green raw puerh. Light vegetal notes throughout the session. I had to push the tea a bit to get a lot of flavor out of it. I started the session with 195F water, but boiling the water and increasing the infusions from 10-20 seconds, to 20-40 seconds helped release more of those prominent vegetal notes (while testing the boundaries of the tea).
I think that the tea is soft, uninteresting. Honestly, this would be a good tea to give to a newbie; experiencing raw tea for the first time. It doesn’t get bitter, unless you REALLY work at it, like I had. It’s not astringent—which is a plus for a beginner—but, I wish that it might’ve been. I find myself relying too much on those bitter/astringent notes these days.
Anyway, it’s a nice tea, but one that I’ve outgrown, as my journey has progressed forward.
