“I think I pulled this sample out of the Puerh TTB. I wasn’t a huge fan of it. The leaves had a relatively light hay aroma to them. Once I brewed it up, the main flavor I got was hay with a touch...” Read full tasting note
“Initial nose off the hot wet leaves is burly, with aromatic wood and a more subtle smoked character that fades directly into a very subtle and not-ouf-of-place cologne-like perfume. As the leaves...” Read full tasting note
“I actually did this two days ago so I am doing it again tonight. I am pretty sure I grabbed this from Jasetea after roaming their website. A Yunnan Sourcing tea from 2009 and sold out on the YS...” Read full tasting note
Rui Cao Xiang You Le Zhi Chun “Spring of You Le” ( 攸乐之春 ) 2009 Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake is the second tea cake created under the new Yunnan Sourcing / Rui Cao Xiang label. This label is a co-project between Yunnan Sourcing “Yun Zhi Yuan” (云之源) and a Korean counter-part “Rui Cao Xiang” (瑞草香). During our extensive travels and mao cha tastings in Banna during the Spring of 2009 they came across this exquisite first flush maocha. It is entirely first flush of spring 2009 maocha from 100 to 200 year old trees on You Le Mountain in Xishuangbanna.
You Le Mountain (aka Ji Nuo mountain 基诺山) is situated east of Jing Hong city about halfway between Jing Hong and Yi Wu. The tea was picked and processed entirely by hand by the growers themselves in the the village of Long Pa (龙怕). The tea is tippy and healthy and is covered with downy silver fur. The raw material is almost entirely intact leaf and bud sets and so stone-compression was used to preserve the natural beauty of this tea.
The brew itself is full and round. The very characteristic You Le taste is present, fragrant with some floral notes…sweet and full in the mouth but with a vegetal bitterness present. An excellent single-estate Long Pa tea!
Just 100 kilograms produced in total!
Net Weight: 357 grams per cake
Compression date: June 4th, 2009
Harvest time: March 2009
Harvest Area: Long Pa village of You Le mountain, Jing Hong Shi, Xishuangbanna prefecture, Yunnan province, China
Total Production amount: 280 cakes
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