Tea reviews for tea drinkers
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…
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…
White2Tea’s Snoozefest is a limited run raw puerh that they have produced for their last couple of Black Friday sales. Only 100 cakes are pressed and they say that they would normally sell a cake of this quality for around $40, but as a Black Friday deal it goes for $15. No samples of this…
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…
Last week I received my first order from Whispering Pines and this tea was tossed in as a free sample. I should note that when I placed the order they were unaware that I was a blogger, so this is more of a nice vendor tossing in samples thing rather than a tea blogger perk….
Yunnan Sourcing’s Nuo Mi Xiang shou puerh is a bit of an oddball cake for me in the sense that I almost never do flavoured teas. After seeing it recommended many times on Reddit and watching Steven Colbert drink a sample I decided to give it a shot. Plus, if you’re going to add extra…
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…
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.
White2Tea’s 2017 Boat Captain is a little eight gram cake that, based on their description, is supposed to be a big, burly, brawler of a tea. These little guys cost $1.50 per cake so they are definitely on the budget friendly side of the spectrum and also have a nice, low buy in cost to…
Kuura is a tea company based out of Australia that’s relativity new to the puerh scene. The 2017 Vector cake is on the more budget friendly side, and they say it performs higher than you would expect based on the price due to their use of more obscure material, keeping the cost down. I already…