Tea reviews for tea drinkers
Yiwu Mountain Tea’s 2005 Yiwu Gushu Huangpian is a blended sheng puerh made from 2005 huangpian material from several Yiwu villages. Instead of offering a cake, this material has been pressed into a big 3 kg pillar, and you can buy samples ranging from 10 grams up to a full log, if you’re feeling particularly…
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…
Welcome to my fifth monthly check in on Bitterleaf Teas’ Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good! This cake was pressed on May 2, so it has now passed the six month mark of life. Through my last five months of tasting this tea I feel like it hasn’t gone through any drastic changes. In my head it…
Farmerleaf’s Spring 2019 Bulang Shan is a sheng puerh made of material from younger trees in a left-to-grow garden in Bulang. This puerh is a fairly budget friendly one, coming in at just under $60 USD for a 357 gram cake, but if it’s like the other more affordable Farmerleaf teas I have tried, this…
Fangmingyuan’s 2008 Bama Gushu is a raw puerh made from Bama material, which is in the Nannuo region. I still haven’t had too many teas from this region but have been really fond of all the ones I have had. Sweet, powerful and affordable seems to be the common thread through the ones I’ve tried…
This year I grabbed samples of the full lineup of 2019 Bitterleaf Teas’ sheng puerhs, but as they were pressed a bit later in the year I’ve been holding off on doing reviews so they can settle in. I reached out to Jonah to ask which of their teas he was digging on right now…
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…
Another month in the bag means it’s time to check in on Bitterleaf Teas‘ Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good! If you’re reading this for the first time, I am doing monthly tastings of this tea and posting updated reviews. If you want to read my past notes, you can find them all here. Seeing as we’ve…
With my last tea review being of an autumn Naka, it seemed appropriate to keep going with that theme and jump over to White2Tea‘s 2019 Dangerfield. TwoDog (of White2Tea) says he blended this tea to be a “poor man’s Naka.” Truth be told, I don’t know what the defining characteristics of a Naka puerh are…
King Tea Mall included a sample of their 2018 Autumn Na Ka Gu Shu puerh with my last order and I was quite excited to give it a try. I have heard many people praise Naka teas but they are usually out of my price range so I haven’t pulled the trigge on any. I…