Tea reviews for tea drinkers
Good morning! Today I am drinking Crimson Lotus Tea’s 2020 Baby Dragon sheng puerh. This tea is made with the same base material as their Slumbering Dragon puerh, but instead of being a single origin sheng, it’s blended to “harnesses the Slumbering Dragon essence and energy but is more approachable and affordable.” I’m a big…
Crimson Lotus Tea’s 2019 Radio KXQM is a sheng puerh made from small arbour material that comes from a garden near the top of Kunlu Shan. In my limited experience, I have loved all the Kunlu sheng that I have tried and this is a tea I wanted to try last year, but I slept…
Crimson Lotus Tea’s 2018 Daydream is a multi-year blend raw puerh that I’ve been wanting to try for a while now. I was chatting with Nicole from Tea For Me Please maybe six months ago and she seemed to be really excited about this tea, so I made a mental note to try it ASAP……
Crimson Lotus Tea’s 2019 Low Rider is another new sheng puerh blend for 2019, made with the intent of being unique and in Crimson Lotus’ own style. Their description says the tea should be easy going, smooth, crisp, clean with balanced astringency and not much in terms of bitterness. As usual, Crimson Lotus doesn’t give…
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…
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…
Crimson Lotus Tea’s 2019 Altered State is a new sheng puerh that has been blended for maximum Cha Qi. For those unaware of what “Cha Qi” is, simply put it is the “energy” of the tea. Beyond that, getting a solid answer on what it’s affects are really depends on who you talk to and…
Crimson Lotus Tea’s Slumbering Dragon is a tea I’ve been curious about since getting into puerh, but for one reason or another never pulled the trigger on. When the new 2019 version came out recently I decided it was time to see what it’s all about and ordered a sample. This puerh comes from a…
This year I wanted to go all out trying bitter teas, but after trying my first Lao Man E, I started to second guess my life choices a little bit. After giving my taste buds a couple months to recover, I decided to give another Lao Man’E puerh a shot. Tea from this region comes…
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…