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TeaEarleGreyHot drank 2003 Yi Wu "Chun Zheng Pin" Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake by Yunnan Sourcing

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I got a 25 g of this in a 2022 pu’erh snob’s sampling box from YS, and find I quite like it. For a semi-aged raw cake at a modest price, I consider it to be quite a value. Tobacco, leather, rich tea, with a hint of bite that has mellowed out. No fishiness or smoke to speak of, and an overall mild attitude and pleasant aroma. I also got a strong hit of chestnut after a few steepings. 5 g per 7 oz boiling spring water. Crystal clear amber liquor from large intact leaves. And YS will literally GIVE you a cake of it with a substantial order, making it an infinite value! I may just pay the $78 to get a cake by itself now that I find I like it so much!

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Pan-American: Left-coast reared (on Bigelow’s Constant Comment and Twinings’ Earl Grey) and right-coast educated, I’ve used this moniker (and Email) since the glory days of AOL in the 90’s, reflecting two of my lifelong loves—tea and ‘Trek. Now a midwestern science guy (right down to the Hawaiian shirts), I’m finally broadening the scope of my sippage and getting into all sorts of Assamicas, from mainstream Assam CTCs to Taiwan blacks & TRES varietals, to varied Pu’erhs. With some other stuff tossed in for fun. Love reading other folks’ tasting notes (thank you), I’ve lurked here from time to time and am now adding a few notes of my own to better appreciate the experience. You can keep the rooibos LoL! Note that my sense of taste varies from the typical, for example I find stevia to be unsweet and bitter. My revulsion to rooibos may be similarly genetic.
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Photo with Aromatic Bamboo Species Raw Pu-erh Tea “Xiang Zhu” by Yunnan Sourcing, which is most definitely aromatic!

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