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“Here’s Hoping Traveling Teabox – Round #5 – Tea #45 Whoa, how did I not know this was sheng rather than shu? The leaves looked like shu to me. I guess I haven’t had shu in a while. I don’t think...” Read full tasting note
“I’m excited. Just got my Black Friday order from White2Tea and this is my first sample. I’ve started to work my way up the quality ladder, and am very impressed. I’m enough of a newby that I...” Read full tasting note
This production from Nannuo mountain’s Bama village is made of qiaomu [young tree] material by Yunhai tea factory. The puer cakes were stored in Guangdong province in average conditions. Most cakes show very little evidence of humid storage. The soup is smooth, bronze colored, and has lasting huigan [sweet aftertaste]
Here’s Hoping Traveling Teabox – Round #5 – Tea #45
Whoa, how did I not know this was sheng rather than shu? The leaves looked like shu to me. I guess I haven’t had shu in a while. I don’t think I ruined it at all, because I could tell by the rinse color it was sheng. The flavor is just sheng to me, sadly. A decent sheng, but I never feel like I appreciate them as much as I should.
Steep #1 // rinse // 17 minutes after boiling // 45 second steep
Steep #2 // 15 minutes after boiling // 60 minute steep
I’m excited. Just got my Black Friday order from White2Tea and this is my first sample. I’ve started to work my way up the quality ladder, and am very impressed. I’m enough of a newby that I won’t provide a numerical score yet.
This is extremely smooth for a pu-erh. The flavor is a complex mix of wood, straw and hints of caramel and veggies. The first few cups had tons of cha qi, but it’s not as powerful now (5th steep). I agree with the web-site assessment: “The soup is smooth, bronze colored, and has lasting huigan [sweet aftertaste]”. I’m really enjoying this.
I don’t know that I’ve ever seen soup used as tea vocabulary before, but it’s a perfectly apt noun for rich, thick tea, isn’t it? (P.S. This sounds very, very good!)
I’ve seen a lot of puerh tastes described as soup. This is one that seems to fit: rich like a broth.
