Tea reviews for tea drinkers
2012 Baotang from Essence of Tea is a bit of an online favourite from what I have seen. This $138 USD, 400 gram cake of Mensong material frequently comes up if you are searching around for “must tries” from Essence of Tea. EoT is a vendor that I have been wanting to get into for…
Bitterleaf Teas’ 2018 WMD is an unblended raw puerh made of all gushu material from Mansa. The cake comes out to just under $1 USD per gram, so this is a good deal more pricey than the normal puerhs I drink, and I’m really looking forward to see how it performs. Before going on, I…
White2Tea’s 2015 Pin is a puerh that I have been interested in for a while. Right when I was getting into puerh, White2Tea had a sale on so I was asking on Reddit what was recommended and a tonne of people all said “Pin.” At the time, $70 was more than I wanted to drop…
Bitterleaf Teas’ 2017 Plum Beauty is an interesting tea, in that they offer it in three different grades – bronze, silver, and gold. All three of these puerhs are made from Mengsong material with the difference between the three being both the age of the trees the leaves came from, as well as the overall…
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…
Yunnan Sourcing’s 2012 Impression cake is the puerh that made me want to start a blog. Scott at Yunnan Sourcing created the Impression line to compete against factory puerhs. This line has been blended for the intention of aging and at an affordable price per cake. When I started getting into puerh I was very…
Whispering Pines’ 2016 Silver Fox is the companies first (and only) sheng puerh and it was pressed in a small quantity for their fifth anniversary. They are mostly known for their shou puerh and black tea, but as sheng is what I drink the most of I figured I would pick up a cake and…
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…
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…