I’ve been drinking a lot of oolong the last couple of days, and I wanted to do something different. I found this in my pantry. I’d forgotten I had it!
I should have looked at the clock because I have plans this evening that come with a good length car trip to start. Well, hopefully I can find a place to stop when I have to, because I can’t stop drinking this tea.
I dumped the first two quick rinses, as I’ve seen that suggested recently. Then I really started into this tea.
oh emm gee
Deliciousness.
sweet but almost floral. Barely earthy, but it’s there. Creamy. Incredibly creamy.
Each infusion is a little different than the previous one.
I can’t believe how beautiful this tea is. And that I didn’t try it until now.
What was I thinking?!?
Even on the 6th infusion, I’m still getting such sweet notes to this, but it’s getting a little woody-ish. Sort of.
It’s hard to describe the beautiful party happening in my mouth with each sip.
I want more. I need more. I have to stop drinking because we have to leave very soon.
I’m going to hold the leaves and hope they’re still good when we get back.
Okay, tea friends, since I love this tea, what other sheng pu-erhs do you recommend???
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Shengs are more like green tea right?
This one reminded me of a white, actually.
Other shengs that I love are Wild Mountain Green and Wild Monk from Mandala. mrmopar and Sammerz and Rich and DigniTea can give you all sorts of suggestions.
What am I likely to like if I prefer black teas?
For me, and I am a pretty HARDCORE unflavored (with the exception of natural flavors) black tea gal and I like both. A lot. They do different things for me. Why don’t I send you a little of each and you can see what you might like?
I don’t really drink green tea.
That would be nice! I tried special dark once and didn’t like it much, I’m afraid I don’t “get” puerh yet but I want to keep trying.
Oh, I was going to send you SD, so that’s good to know. I will send something different. Oh, I got your swap package today!! Thank yo so much. I can’t wait to try them.
Anything else you would like to try?
This sounds wonderful! I’m adding to my wishlist. :)
white2tea has a ton of shengs. never tried them but I am in the near future, a little bird told me to wait a bit though.
Honestly Marzipan, I am kind of drowning in tea right now for real and true so not right now – but thank you so much for offering. Maybe after I tame this giant sea of tea I have – I need to tin it and organize it and OMG it’s out of hand!
I just took a look at it all and I’m a little freaked out and there is some on the way and I need an intervention.
The offer will stand after you tame the beast :)
Thank you :) Really I’m starting to worry about myself now. I’m pretty sure that after this weekend and the orders that are coming, I’m going to end up over 200. Yikes! I have no where to put it all, some is going to have to move to the living room. I needto spend some quality time with it and see what to do about it. And drink it :)
Between the really high credit card bill a couple of months back, and how much my tea collection has expanded in the last few months, I stopped buying tea (mostly.) I’m back to where I think I’m ready to start buying because my expenditures have been low, but the pantry is still overflowing. I need to at least organize what I have before ordering more, I think. But I do want to try to find some good sheng pu-erhs to try because this one was amazing.
Shengs are more like green tea right?
This one reminded me of a white, actually.
Other shengs that I love are Wild Mountain Green and Wild Monk from Mandala. mrmopar and Sammerz and Rich and DigniTea can give you all sorts of suggestions.
What am I likely to like if I prefer black teas?
For me, and I am a pretty HARDCORE unflavored (with the exception of natural flavors) black tea gal and I like both. A lot. They do different things for me. Why don’t I send you a little of each and you can see what you might like?
I don’t really drink green tea.
That would be nice! I tried special dark once and didn’t like it much, I’m afraid I don’t “get” puerh yet but I want to keep trying.
Oh, I was going to send you SD, so that’s good to know. I will send something different. Oh, I got your swap package today!! Thank yo so much. I can’t wait to try them.
Anything else you would like to try?
This sounds wonderful! I’m adding to my wishlist. :)
white2tea has a ton of shengs. never tried them but I am in the near future, a little bird told me to wait a bit though.
Honestly Marzipan, I am kind of drowning in tea right now for real and true so not right now – but thank you so much for offering. Maybe after I tame this giant sea of tea I have – I need to tin it and organize it and OMG it’s out of hand!
I just took a look at it all and I’m a little freaked out and there is some on the way and I need an intervention.
The offer will stand after you tame the beast :)
Thank you :) Really I’m starting to worry about myself now. I’m pretty sure that after this weekend and the orders that are coming, I’m going to end up over 200. Yikes! I have no where to put it all, some is going to have to move to the living room. I needto spend some quality time with it and see what to do about it. And drink it :)
Between the really high credit card bill a couple of months back, and how much my tea collection has expanded in the last few months, I stopped buying tea (mostly.) I’m back to where I think I’m ready to start buying because my expenditures have been low, but the pantry is still overflowing. I need to at least organize what I have before ordering more, I think. But I do want to try to find some good sheng pu-erhs to try because this one was amazing.