Tea reviews for tea drinkers
The time has come for my final tasting of the three one-of-a-kind shou puerhs – Crimson Lotus Tea‘s 2018 Spring Lao Man’E Gushu Shou Puerh. Lao Man’E is a new region for me and one I’ll be exploring a bit over the next few months, but starting out with a shou from there should be…
For part two of my three part tasting on Crimson Lotus Tea’s “one-of-a-kind shou” set, I opted to try out the Lao Ban Zhang. Of the three ripe puerhs this is the most pricey, coming in at a whopping $32 CAD for eight grams. Even though this comes in at $4 CAD per gram, this…
Lately I have been hitting the shou pretty hard. I’ve only posted a few reviews so far, but in my non-critical-review-mode drinking time I have been gravitating towards shou for the last couple of months, and have been doing so in lead up to this. When Crimson Lotus put their three one-of-a-kind shous up for…
Crimson Lotus Tea’s 2017 Nannuo Mini Mushrooms are something that I have been wanting to try out for a while, but for one reason or another I never got to ordering one. I have read many reviews and tasting notes on this before and the notes you see over and over are “vanilla” and “creamy,”…
2018 Beneath an Emerald Sea from Crimson Lotus tea is a new pressing of a well liked 2016 cake. This puerh is supposed to have a pretty incredible stamina, a thick and creamy texture, and a nice balance of sweet and bitter. Like Crimson Lotus’ 2018 Jingmai LOVE, this puerh was pressed in 2018 but…
2018 Jingmai LOVE is a new pressing of Crimson Lotus Tea’s now sold out 2016 cake, which I reviewed a couple of weeks ago. As a quick recap, I really liked the 2016 cake and think it’s a fantastic puerh at the price. It started out vegetal and floral, with the floral qualities increasing throughout…
Jingmai LOVE from Crimson Lotus Teas is an affordable blended cake that Crimson Lotus says captures the Jingmai essence. They describe this as having decent depth and body, strong honey aroma and floral taste. I haven’t tried enough teas from each region to accurately distinguish the qualities that each region is known for, but I…
Crimson Lotus Teas 2018 Intrigue raw puer is a lower-mid range priced cake that I picked up after reading some pretty glowing reviews on Reddit and on the Oolong Owl blog. I last tried it about a month ago and was really surprised at how complex this tea is compared to the lower price.
I have to admit, what first attracted me to Crimson Lotus Tea’s 2016 Hidden Song was the mystery of the wrapper. In case you haven’t checked it out, the wrapper has a small piece of sheet music on it and if you guess the song correctly, Crimson Lotus sends you a tong of this for…