“I am not sure in what sense of the phrase gu shu is this tea a gu shu, but I think it’s quite clear that it is not a plantation grown tea. It brews up very dark, has a nice mouthfeel that’s not too...” Read full tasting note
“Finally another ripe for me to review. We’ve been seeing more and more of these high-end shus over the past few years, which is a trend I hope continues. I brewed 12.1g of this in a 160ml Yixing...” Read full tasting note
“I’ve been trying some of the more expensive “high end” shus, particularly from YS, lately. First, my review of this one. It is definitely pretty good, but kind of uni-dimensional. The flavor is...” Read full tasting note
This tea cake is pressed from Spring 2017 harvested Bu Lang Mountain (south of Menghai in Xishuangbanna) that was wet piled in early 2018 and then pressed into a cake in Kunming on July 1st 2018!
This is an ultra-premium Bu Lang ripe pu-erh that is incredibly rich, viscous and textured. It’s creamy and sweet, with a touch of bitter and wood that will provide this tea with the needed fuel to transform into an even more wonderful tea in the future!
Highly recommended!
Cha Nong Hao Brand (lit. Tea Farmer Brand 茶农号) is a small project of Ms. Guo, a Yunnan local tea aficionado. She’s been involved in the Pu-erh tea world for many years but is finally doing her own small batch pressings of ripe and raw pu-erh teas that she has sourced through her many travels in the tea mountains of Yunnan!
200 Grams per cake, 7 cakes per bamboo leaf tong
2017 Spring Harvested tea, 2018 wet-piled, 2018 pressing
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