Price: 250g bag £13.65 ($21.42)
58/100
Summary: A worn out tea that provides a mellow, creamy taste. For an aged tea with more flavours, I recommend one of these:
Wild Quarter Brick 1990 by pu-erh.sk
Yiwu 1999 maocha by pu-erh.sk
Tuo Cha 1990 by pu-erh.sk
1980’s Tong Qing Hao Tea Cake by SampleTea
5g in Gaiwan.
Dry: Slightly dusty, warehouse aroma. Loose leaf + clumps that are dark brown.
Wet: Slightly smoky, wet wood. No aged flavours like bird-cage or church-like aromas. Dark brown leaves and the odd black stem and leaf.
Note: There is no label on the paper bag to say what the tea is. Maybe they don’t know what it is?
Rinse water is dark gold.
5s – Dark gold. Very mild, very subtle hints of wood.
10s – Dark gold. Very mild, subtle hints of wood. No bitterness or astringency.
25s – Dark gold. Has some of the sweetness from shu pu-erh.
30s – Less dark gold. Soft wet wood. Taste is clean. Slight sparkle on the swallow. This tea tastes like it is very worn out.
40s – Dark gold. Some subtle bitterness against the soft wet wood.
50s – Dark gold. Mild wet wood, slightly creamy.
Flavors: Creamy, Wet wood
Preparation
People who liked this
Comments
I bought this too. IT was a bargain price. I sent some samples to others. Cwyn thought it younger than 1990’s but wet stored. She thought it maybe three years old or so. Me I couldn’t be certain. I did think for the price it wasn’t bad.
I bought it after reading your review. It sounded like a bargain.
you write better reviews than me :)
I bought this too. IT was a bargain price. I sent some samples to others. Cwyn thought it younger than 1990’s but wet stored. She thought it maybe three years old or so. Me I couldn’t be certain. I did think for the price it wasn’t bad.
I bought it after reading your review. It sounded like a bargain.
you write better reviews than me :)