Tea reviews for tea drinkers
Bitterleaf Teas 2017 Secret Garden is raw puerh from a remote tea garden in Manzhuan. It’s a bit of an oddball cake in that the 2016 and 2018 pressings of this cake are from Yiwu, but Bitterleaf says that this pressing shares much of the same essence as the 2016 one. This cake comes in…
Silver Bowl is a 2007 “found tea” sold by Bitterleaf Teas, meaning it’s one of the few puerhs on their site that they haven’t pressed themselves, but bought off a private collector to resell. While this is an aged cake, the tuo (nest) shape ages much more slowly than a beeng (disc), so you shouldn’t…
Bitterleaf Teas Year of the Rooster is the 2017 offering of their yearly “Year of the ___” cake. These puers are made from a Yiwu material that comes from a “left to grow” garden, which means more or less what it sounds like. For the last ten years these tea trees are harvested only once…
Bitterleaf Teas’ 2018 Core raw puer is made from spring Mengku material and is intended to be a higher quality budget friendly cake. Recently I reviewed their huang pian version of this tea, so I wanted to try the regular version with it still fresh in my mind. Breaking the cake The cake has a…
Bitterleaf Teas Core Huang Pian brick a sheng puerh made from huang pian material, which means “yellow leaves.” These are the older, uglier, larger, and generally undesirable looking leaves. For the customer this means a much cheaper end product, but these leaves also have a much different taste, often being smoother and sweeter than their…