Recently I had an online tea friend coming through town, so we decided to meet up and do a tea swap. As I was looking at their list of teas, I saw they had some Whispering Pines shou puerh – specifically, the loose leaf version of Ontario 1357. I have previously had a couple of…
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Dayi 2013 7542 Sheng Puerh – September 2019 Review
The factory puerh world is one that I’ve been meaning to explore for some time now, but there is so much out there that it’s a bit hard to know where to begin. To get things going, I decided to start with the classic Dayi 7542, which I bought from King Tea Mall. I wanted…
Camellia Sinensis 2003 Orange Label Shou Puerh – September 2019 Review
Camellia Sinensis‘ 2003 Orange Label is in new territory for me, being an aged CNNP shou cake. I’ve had another ripe puerh that was supposedly around this age, but, it was of questionable origin, so I’m curious to see if it stands up against this one. As I’ve said in the past, I don’t drink…
Crimson Lotus Tea 2018 Dark Depths Shou Puerh – September 2019 Review
Crimson Lotus Tea‘s Dark Depths is a shou puerh that was pressed last year but released earlier in this year. When it was released, I was chatting with Char from Oolong Owl and she was pretty excited about it. I believe she had said she tried it in loose leaf form a while back and…
Bitterleaf Teas 2019 Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good Sheng Puerh – August 2019 Early Look
Time for another look at Bitterleaf Teas‘ Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good raw puerh! If you’re just coming across this for the first time now, I will be posting updated reviews on this tea monthly for the next year. This is my third month/third tasting. Please check out last month’s review here and the previous month…
Tea Side 2016 Lord of the Forest Sheng Puerh – August 2019 Review
Lord of the Forest by Tea Side is a sheng puerh-esque tea made of ancient trees from Myanmar. The reason I say “puerh-esque” is because technically puerh has to be produced in Yunnan so just like sparking wine made outside of Champagne can’t be called Champagne, this tea shouldn’t be called puerh. I will be…
Camellia Sinensis 2007 Wuliang Shan Sheng Puerh – August 2019 Review
Camellia Sinensis is a new-to-me vendor for puerh, and it’s one that I’m very excited to try. There are a couple tea vendors in Canada selling puerh, but as far as I can tell Camellia Sinensis is the only one who is pressing their own cakes. I’ve tried out some of their loose leaf teas…
White2Tea Very Old Huangpian – July 2019 Review
Today’s review is of a tea that I’m extremely excited about – White2Tea’s Very Old Huangpian. I was interested in this tea since first seeing it up on the shop and frequently hemmed and hawed about grabbing some, but I never got around to actually ordering. Recently, an online tea friend sent me a care…
Bitterleaf Teas 2019 Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good Sheng Puerh – July 2019 Early Look
It’s the last weekend of the month so you know what that means… time for an update on Bitterleaf Teas‘ Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good raw puerh! In case you are just coming across this post, I will be checking in on this cake monthly and writing new reviews on it to track how it progresses…
Fangmingyuan 2013 Nannuo Sheng Puerh – July 2019 Review
Today’s review is one of a puerh that I have been looking forward to for a little bit now: Fangmingyuan’s 2013 Nannuo sheng puerh. Trying out new teas is always fun and this one is a double whammy for me – I have never tried a Fangmingyuan tea before and don’t know anything about them,…