I am going to be broke(Paul take all my money)
*Soapbox
I am literally upset I did not find this site earlier. Paul has consistently good tea and honest descriptions with accurate tasting notes. Best of all you get what you pay for which leads me to this tea. I dare you to find a better tea at this price range, it is not the most complex, ethereal elixir of the gods but if you drink enough puer where you go through a few cakes-tong a year this can easily get my vote for staple. I don’t trust myself to store puer yet being in a very dry climate and my rather experimental 75% RH pack semi- sealed storage. Otherwise I would definitely purchase a bunch of this stuff and happily drink there the mountain of samples I have to keep me happy for the a long while.
*Tasting notes
A common theme of this tea seems to be me casually brewing this hungover sunday mornings so I don’t dare to claim to know it but I have picked up on a few consistent pleasant features. First off it steeps better with more leaf/water ratio (usually I go g/15mL of water as a starting point) but with this one closer to g/12-13 mL with good results. I consistently got a sweet taste and a nice slow pouring viscosity the oil present are hinted at the stained cake wrapper. Not as thick as a bu lang but much thicker than say most autumn harvests. The taste was not bitter at all but if you pushed the steeping time it got a little smokey which may or may not be your thing. Very versatile as the just nice sweetness and no smoke is not present if you flash brew. I was not able to taste any fruitiness as I have in the past but my taste buds are fried and it was more casual chug then a slow concentrated “gong fu” session.
A nice middle of the road versatile daily drinker that is priced perfectly and very approachable sweetness that is hard to offend most taste buds. Not super complex, I would say fairly one-note but then again I don’t want to have to concentrate/focus to enjoy some teas.
Flavors: Dark Wood, Sweet, Warm Grass
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He is taking money from us all. But it’s a good trade off.
Indeed bittersweet, very glad I found his site but I am literally spending a fortune because his consistent quality and prices
+1 agreed with you. Wish I had a bit more to spend there.
I think I will make one more big order this week and cut myself off puer wise for the year
Paul is indeed a tea pimp for this here tea whore.
After literally spending hundreds sampling at yunnan sourcing I have maybe found one tea I liked that wasn’t +$150 and it was sold out at the time and now that it is restocked guess what price it goes for…… +$100. With pauls teas you get what you pay for and I have not had one tea of his that I didn’t like, some I wouldn’t buy but gladly drink
following you to ask a puerh question!
ha ha, I tried that one big order strategy, too, Jiang Luo. Failed miserably. Had to re-up on a few faves while they last. W2T is amazing and I am almost afraid of what 2016 might bring.
He is taking money from us all. But it’s a good trade off.
Indeed bittersweet, very glad I found his site but I am literally spending a fortune because his consistent quality and prices
+1 agreed with you. Wish I had a bit more to spend there.
I think I will make one more big order this week and cut myself off puer wise for the year
Paul is indeed a tea pimp for this here tea whore.
After literally spending hundreds sampling at yunnan sourcing I have maybe found one tea I liked that wasn’t +$150 and it was sold out at the time and now that it is restocked guess what price it goes for…… +$100. With pauls teas you get what you pay for and I have not had one tea of his that I didn’t like, some I wouldn’t buy but gladly drink
following you to ask a puerh question!
ha ha, I tried that one big order strategy, too, Jiang Luo. Failed miserably. Had to re-up on a few faves while they last. W2T is amazing and I am almost afraid of what 2016 might bring.