Tea reviews for tea drinkers
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…
Recently I had an online tea friend coming through town, so we decided to meet up and do a tea swap. As I was looking at their list of teas, I saw they had some Whispering Pines shou puerh – specifically, the loose leaf version of Ontario 1357. I have previously had a couple of…
The factory puerh world is one that I’ve been meaning to explore for some time now, but there is so much out there that it’s a bit hard to know where to begin. To get things going, I decided to start with the classic Dayi 7542, which I bought from King Tea Mall. I wanted…
Camellia Sinensis‘ 2003 Orange Label is in new territory for me, being an aged CNNP shou cake. I’ve had another ripe puerh that was supposedly around this age, but, it was of questionable origin, so I’m curious to see if it stands up against this one. As I’ve said in the past, I don’t drink…