Tea reviews for tea drinkers
Time for my last check in on Bitterleaf Teas’ Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good of the decade! If you’re a regular, you know the drill here. If you’re finding this for the first time, I have been doing monthly updates on this cake since it showed up at my door, and you can check on the…
Have you ever thought to yourself “hmm… I wonder what would happen if I took some shou and aged it in rum cask?” No? Fortunately, you don’t have to worry about it because Glen and Lamu over at Crimson Lotus Tea have done it for you! Their latest batch of Rum Barrel Shou is something…
Yuanjiutang’s 2003 Ban Zhang is a sheng puerh made from material that’s… well… probably not from Ban Zhang. This tea came to me from Tea Encounter, and on their site they make it clear that they themselves are not verifying or even claiming what the origin of these tea leaves are, and the Ban Zhang…
Continuing on with trying to get into factory puerhs, I wanted to try a couple of the popular Dayi recipes with a bit of age, so I ordered a few samples from King Tea Mall from 2006 and 2007. Based on descriptions I’ve read before, I think the 8582 will be most up my alley,…
Well, I think it’s about time to get back on the Lao Man E train and give Bitterleaf Teas’ 2019 The Bitter End a shot. The Bitter End is made with the “sweet” varietal of Lao Man E trees, as opposed to the “what the hell is wrong with you, who wants this?!” varietal that…
I picked up samples from White2Tea right when the fresh cakes dropped this year, but despite being one of the first to get their cakes to the market, for some reason White2Tea’s puerhs have taken the most time to settle into themselves. I’ve been checking in on my samples every now and again and keep…
Last year I heard lots of hype around Crimson Lotus Tea’s Wildwood sheng puerh, but it was one of those teas that for one reason or another I kept meaning to try out then getting side tracked. Well… in this case I know exactly why I never picked it up. At $75 USD for a…
Today I am drinking Zheng Si Long’s 2016 Ge Deng sheng puerh, which came to me as a free sample from Tea Encounter. I really like what Tiago has written for the product description over on the Tea Encounter site. “After drinking this tea for 3 days in a row and trying to find the…
This months review of Bitterleaf Teas’ 2019 Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good is coming in a bit late because it has required a bit of investigating on my part. What do you do when a tea you’ve been loving for months suddenly tastes bland and boring? I’ve had some concerns about my storage for the last…
Yunnan Sourcing’s 2013 Nan Po Zhai is a puerh I know next to nothing about. It’s not a cake that I’ve seen much buzz about, I haven’t heard of the area (other than the description saying it’s right by Bing Dao), and the sites description has no tasting notes whatsoever other than it’s “powerful and…