00s Organic Premium Aged Loose Pu-erh Ripe

5g. Gaiwan.

I bought this after reading a favourable recommendation from AllanK. Thanks – keep up those reviews.

Dry: Dusty, musky, chocolate. Loose leaves. The leaves looks like roasted Oolong. There is a powdery dust on the inside of the zip lock pouch.

Wet: Aroma of porridge, sugary sweet and hot milk. There is a mixture of dark green and dark brown leaves. No large twigs.

It brews dark brown in seconds and has a soft flavour of porridge oats, with a soft sugary sweetness that is picked up on the sip and continues into the finish. No fishiness here. Not creamy sweet like White2Tea CNNP and not as dark as YS Menghai 2008, so somewhere in between.
This tea sits well above low quality ripe, but is too singularly porridge-sweet to be outstanding. It delivered an impressive number of steeps (7-10) and is still going.

This tea is inexpensive and very tasty. She implies it was made in the early part of the century but who knows. I don’t detect any fermentation funk so it is possible. It is good, nice and sweet. I will admit though, I was too lazy to gongfu this this morning and just western brewed it so I don’t know how far this tea will go. Judging from one steep, I like it. While I added sugar to my tea I’d say it was sweet before that. It has a sort of sweet flavor that sugar just doesn’t add. It is good. For the price I paid I am glad I bought it. She sells 500g for $17.99, a bargain.

I brewed this once in a 16oz Teavana Glass Perfect Tea Maker/Gravity Steeper with 3 tsp leaf and boiling water for 30 seconds after giving it a short rinse.