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Not a bad tea, though I didn’t find it too interesting. Kind of thick, muted flavor, not very noteworthy.

This was an amazing value from Puershop. Where can you find a good quality shu for under $20 for a full sized cake these days? It is a solid tea – fairly smooth, robust, and straightforward. A little chocolate, a little bitterness, long lasting. It is supposedly wild arbor, but who knows. A great daily drinker.

I recently when on a ripe sample buying spree at Puershop. I bought 20 samples. Pretty cheap to do at puershop, though their teas are often mediocre. This was one of their premium ripes. It was pretty good, smooth and nicely fermented. It did lack character and complexity, but it was still a solid tea. But the price is too high at $47. I would definitely buy some if it were $30.

Some very nice nuggets. This tastes like you might expect, given that these are the nuggets from a golden gong ting ripe. Quite smooth and tasty.

This is a Tea Urchin house ripe. It is a very nice tea, though not my style as it is fairly smokey, which I do not like. It is a very smooth tea and seems like good quality. If you like Xiaguan ripes, I think you would enjoy this one.

I don’t know why I bother with factory ripe pu erh, I might just stop buying it. Scott’s ripes from Yunnan Sourcing are almost always delicious, bold, high quality, tested for pesticides, and overall consistently good. Lucy is no exception. It is subtly different from their other ripes, a little more complex. I think there is a bit of camphor in the background, which is nice. It tastes of bittersweet chocolate and very slight smoke. Very smooth, and moderate caffeine. Another winner from YS.

This is one of the best from YS. I can’t get enough of it. Chocolatey, rich, bold, strong and dark. And a solid price point. I may need to fill up a warehouse with this stuff. Second only to Green Miracle in my book, which is sold out.

Mistakenly put this note for the wrong tea. Correcting now.

I normally love YS ripe teas, but this one was terrible. I could have had a bad batch of course, but it tasted like dirty cardboard. Yuck.

This was an excellent tea. Quite smooth and tasty. And extremely robust! The Tea lasted longer than I did. Much better than the Bulang nuggets I had last week.