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“mmm had a cup of this to kick start my day. Sometimes it’s nice to have a flavoured puerh and a straight one on the go at the same time heh. Still really enjoying this one, so i may need to put i...” Read full tasting note
“It’s all Sil’s fault. I wasn’t going to have another cup, but she just had to dangle that tasting note in front of me. This smells insane. Going by the dry tea alone I understand all the hype when...” Read full tasting note
“This is another one of those, if I loved puerh I would be in love with this tea. Still, I definitely enjoy it all the same; it just takes me a bit to reorient my flavor and scent expectations for a...” Read full tasting note
“This came my way from JustJames – another tea I would never have tried if not for you, so thank you! The flavours in this puerh are really prominent. The first flavour that jumps out is the almond,...” Read full tasting note
“Pu-Erh Gourmand” flavored dark tea
The warm and woody notes of Pu-Erh tea from China mixed with a cocktail of delidous aromas: biscuit, caramel, vanilla, sweet almond and heliotrope. Can be drunk iced. (flower petals)
Brewing time: 3 to 5 minutes
Note 1400, plus sipdown!
I really enjoyed this tea this morning, with a splash of cream. Nice and strong and rich. Definitely caramel and vanilla. Mmm. I steeped just over 4 minutes, too. (My usual is 3!) I needed something delicious and comforting, and this worked quite well. :)
Thank you to… Dinosara for sharing the sample with me!
I have not had a lot of pu erhs before but this certainly would be at the top of the list. The vanilla and caramel are wonderful together. Very smooth and moth filling. Can tea be round? That is how it tastes to me. Fills up all the corners of my mouth. Yum!
Flavors: Caramel, Vanilla
I have only ever bought one pu’erh for myself. Everything else I’ve tried has been courtesy of generous, kind folks like Dexter3657 and TheTeaFairy and one other. These opportunities to try the bizarreness that is pu’erh I will forever be thankful for.
This one I find tolerable. I can taste pu’erh so I had to add caramel creamer some stuff to it to actually enjoy it. I do recognize that to others might taste good. If it’s tolerable to me that’s saying a lot! I can see how one day if I persevere I could like this.
Thank you to TheTeaFairy but … This is far from gourmand for me. Or maybe I’m not gourmand enough for it. That’s probably it.
I don’t know about these pu’erh teas. I try to be open-minded, but once they’re steeped, the pue’erh scent just turns my stomach. Regardless, I power through because sometimes that strong scent doesn’t come through as strongly in the taste. Unfortunately for this tea, it did.
Thanks for the sample VariaTEA!
But on the upside, I just finished a sipdown of French Butter Cookie in matcha milk, and this one is a sample sipdown.
Yeah, I’ve only tried pu’erh once so far, and also found it was the scent that was hard to get past…
you should try a sheng puerh, does not have the same aroma at all
Okay to be honest, Sil sent this to me, and I really don’t like pu’erh either. I tried it, and it was very pu’erh heavy so I passed it to you because for some reason, I thought you were a pu’erh fan. Obviously not so I shall keep that in mind :P
TeaBrat I will keep that in mind.
VariaTEA no worries, I appreciate getting to try new things, even if they don’t turn out.
i get stomach aches from pu’erh’s … the only one i don’t is blood orange from davids, but i have to drink it in small quantities… i can bake/cook with pu’erh’s though and its been fine… i think when its just the tea and water though it does a number on me.
Hahaha all you puerh haters should try the strawberry chocolate one from lupicia ;)
I have! Definitely one of the better pu’erhs I have had but still not for me.
Strawberry chocolate pu erh….noms. I would love to try it. I’m gonna have to figure out a Lupicia order, I think.
I am sorry, Sil! I tried, I really did, but I could not get past the pu erh taste in this cup. You were so generous to share some with me but the cup got dumped and I will probably pass the rest of the sample along to someone who will appreciate it more than I ever could. Thank you Sil, but this wasn’t for me.
We drank about seven pots of this tea yesterday and today. I had a lot of guests and the young people really love puerh. They were having a massive Munchkin game with seven add ons plus legends, using dungeons. And they drank tea the whoooooooole time. I spent most of the game running to the kitchen to heat the water and then fetching a new pot back in.
Youngest has fallen in love with this one, and wanted to know tonight if we had much of the “sugar cookie puerh” as she likes to call it. I told her we did and she said that she loves having a pot to herself to sip on as she draws and reads. I guess I need to order some more of this sugar cookie flavored dream as a Christmas gift for her. She loves their Lapsang Souchong Crocodile as well, so that will make the shipping a little more bearable.
The base is lightly earthy, dark but without bitterness, and the flavoring is sweet biscuit (and yes, you really do taste delicious biscuit!) with caramel and vanilla. We were able to resteep three or four times western style with ease and with good flavor remaining. Well done!
Woohooo! Go you!
I have tried at least 615 teas. At least, because random things I have get put in random steepings or something similar. That’s a lot of teas.
That’s fantastic!
Wow! Keep it up!
For me, yeah! :) I’m not a hardened tea drinker like you. I’m afraid my slosh-capacity is pretty low. ;)
I’ll probably slow down in tea types, at least until I wade through the gazillion samples and teas I currently have. :) I’m still drinking 3-4 mugs a day, though!