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“Woke up today craving a ripe instead of my usual raw so I pulled out this sample from mrmopar. Nice dark nuggets with a weird small bit of light colored leaf and a light twig/stem. Odd, but...” Read full tasting note
“I bought a 50g sample of this after reading all the rave reviews on Steepster, but sadly it was a little disappointing. The tea is pretty good—strong with that Menghai bitterness. But it’s just...” Read full tasting note
“Although I mostly drink black tea, the past while everything started tasting the same, and even worse, not tasting good. So, I pulled out some pu’reh samples I have had stashed away as I had a...” Read full tasting note
“my “2008” puerh for today. this one is a smooth tasting puerh. After a few steeps i still haven’t gotten a handle on it. it’s sweet..and very much a shou. Some elements of rich cocoa… hmmm...” Read full tasting note
2008 Menghai Dayi Song of Chi Tse Ripe 357g
Limited production for the 3rd Yunnan Tea exposition. The tea is made from the fat and tender tea leaves, and mixes large mature leaves, ensures that the tea has better smooth and thick and balanced and mellow taste. The tea also has high pure Pu’er tea flavor. It yields a thick bright red broth with mellow, smooth and varied tastes and lingering undertones, as the name of it “Song of Chi Tse”.
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menghai 2007 chi tse
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Menghai Tea FactoryThis tea has cleared. It has virtually no fermentation flavor left. It is among the very best of Puerhs. There is a slight, very slight bitterness in the early infusions. This soon goes away and you are left with a smooth ripe puerh with a little bit of natural sweetness. There are a plethora of flavor notes to this tea. I detected chocolate, and I am not sure if it was because I added a small amount of sugar, but I also detected caramel.
I steeped this 10 times in a 130ml Yixing teapot. I used 4.5g leaf and boiling water. I steeped it for 15 sec, 15 sec, 15 sec, 15 sec, 15 sec, 30 sec, 30 sec, 1 min, 1 min, 2 min. Berylleb King Tea has done an excellent job with the storage of this puerh. I am considering buying a second so I have one for future years.
Flavors: Chocolate
I have a sample of this on the way. I look forward to trying it, especially as it is reasonably priced!
10 steeps is decent! I’m excited to try a shou that doesn’t have that fermentation flavor!
Your pallet might be sensitive enough to detect a little, but not very much because it just isn’t there. I would say it is 98% gone in this tea and 75 % gone in the 2010 Golden Needle White Lotus. It is also gone in the 2006 Lucky Dragon.
I’m thinking about getting a little bit of this tea to try out. On ebay it says that customs charges may be incurred separately. Is this something that you have to deal with in the US, or just a disclaimer to cover themselves in general?
I think it’s a general disclaimer. I have never paid a customs charge on any package from China or for that matter from anywhere else. To incur a customs charge from China it has to be a pretty large sum in the US. Don’t know about Canada or other countries.
We are good in the USA. I know Spain, Italy and Argentina have stiff customs on incoming stuff.
Even when I have had the tracking hit “Inbound Into Customs” they have never opened a package.
Awesome. Thanks, folks. I’m gonna get a couple ounces sent to me to see if I like it. Does the vendor have other decent stuff?
I definitely recommend Berylleb in general. They sell a lot of good tea in general. I’ve gotten a lot that I’ve liked although nothing specific comes to mind. His Dayi products are all real.
Tell them you are from Steepster they may give you a little discount. As Allan said Berylleb is a trusted name around here for eBay buying.
Will do!