Tea type
Herbal Pu'erh Pu'erh (sheng) Blend
Ingredients
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Flavors
Apricot, Astringent, Barnyard, Dried Fruit, Dry Leaves, Earthy, Hay, Mineral, Smoke, Smooth, Stonefruit, Sweet
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Caffeine
Medium
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Edit tea info Last updated by Cameron B.
Average preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 3 min, 0 sec 16 oz / 473 ml

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From Chroma Tea

Sheng pu’er tea blended with wild crassicolumna sheng and hinoki cypress oil.

The best sheng pu’er in the world has a heavy sense of place, a way of transporting us to a forest, a mountaintop, a place from our memories. This blend takes a delicate approach, letting the Dongsa Cooperative’s wild-foraged sheng pu’er speak for itself. We’ve added just a touch of near-tea-relative Camellia Crassicolumna for its deep woody spice, and a bit of Hinoki Cypress oil to help amp up this pu’er natural notes of deep forest.

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So this one is a blend of sheng, crassicolumna sheng, and cypress oil. I love evergreen-y notes in tea, so this sounded lovely to me. The dry scent, though, is almost a bit chemical? It reminds me a bit of burning rubber…

By contrast, the flavor is very mellow. It tastes like a mix of an earthy Chinese green tea and maybe an aged white tea. It’s smooth, but has a noticeable mineral note to it along with a touch of earthy smoke. And then there’s a stonefruit flavor that reminds me of apricot fruit leather, albeit perhaps a bit less concentrated and certainly less sweet. Overall, I’m actually reminded of a gunpowder green tea.

I don’t get any cypress notes at all, and I have no idea what the crassicolumna would possibly taste like. Mostly it’s just a mellow and very mineral sheng. Meh.

Flavors: Apricot, Astringent, Barnyard, Dried Fruit, Dry Leaves, Earthy, Hay, Mineral, Smoke, Smooth, Stonefruit, Sweet

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 3 min, 0 sec 3 tsp 16 OZ / 473 ML

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This seemed so promising to me.

It’s basically just a sheng mixed with cypress oil, which is just a brilliant combination. On the dry leaf, the rich woody aroma of the cypress is also really apparent – I’ve been sneaking little whiffs of the sample bag every time I’ve gone to make a tea from Chroma.

I made it as a Western cup of tea yesterday and I honestly thought I had overdone it with the amount of leaf I’d measured out – but steeped up the flavour of this was so, so weak. It did have a really nice almost effervescent mouthfeel with this light, plucky astringency. However, as pleasant as the mouthfeel might have been, none of that really means anything to me without taste to back it up. I’m not writing it off entirely yet, but it’s just shockingly mild without any real presence of the cypress oil.

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