Tea reviews for tea drinkers
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…
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…
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…
Bana Tea Company’s 2015 Bulang mini cake was the first cake I purchased and it came to me from Liquid Proust. I last sampled it in August and wasn’t really into it. My notes stated that it started out floral but quickly changed to be extremely bitter and shared many qualities with cheaper green teas….
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…
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…