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“Gongfu! This was our last tea of the guided tasting – it’s also Lincang material so Geoff had pulled it for us to compare with the sheng we had just finished tasting made using the same material....” Read full tasting note
This is the tea cake version of our 2018 Time Traveller; you will find insane notes of stone fruit (like in its loose-leaf cousin) layered on rich aromas of plum flavoured pipe tobacco. Why on Earth these beautiful scents happen in the cake form… we don’t know.
Disclosure: we cried a little when we were learned that all supply of 2018 loose leaf Time Traveller has disappeared (or been happily consumed). But we smiled again when we were able to get hold of a few of these cakes.
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This was our last tea of the guided tasting – it’s also Lincang material so Geoff had pulled it for us to compare with the sheng we had just finished tasting made using the same material. It was my favourite of the three teas served. From steep one I found it so aromatic and flavourful with rich notes of spices and jammy red fruits. Those red fruit notes only got increasingly more potent with an almost over ripe pungency and tangy quality to them. Plums, red apples, pomegranate molasses, and tamarind. Actually, lots and lots of tamarind. Maybe even a bit of a tomato-y kind of umami explosion with both sweetness and a sort of acidity.
I really wanted to pick some of this up after our tasting, but the shop was sold out of sample sizes and only had full 200g cakes left. At $265 for a cake, the price was a little steep for me considering this was only the second tea shop we’d visited on a list of over a dozen, so I passed on the cake. In hindsight I really regret that because I’m still drooling thinking about this tea, and unfortunately it looks like it’s now sold out in the week since this tasting – at least according to their website…
