2013 Yiwu Peacock blend from Tea Urchin

2013 Yiwu Peacock blend

Tea type
Pu'erh Tea
Ingredients
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Flavors
Blackberry, Brown Sugar, Dark Wood, Floral, Honey, Plum, Raisins, Sweet, Apricot, Camphor, Fruity, Milk, Pleasantly Sour, Sour, Vegetal, Creamy, Hay
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Edit tea info Last updated by Cameron B.
Average preparation
Boiling 0 min, 15 sec 7 g 5 oz / 139 ml

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  • “Tea: TTB review: Tea Urchin 2013 Peacock Prep: 100cc gaiwan, 6g. Longish steep to open her up, flash steep x2, 10s, 10s, 20s, 30s, etc.. Probably 12 steeps before it’s out. Sessions with this tea:...” Read full tasting note
  • “Puerh Tea TTB. This is I think a good sheng. It is also a bitter sheng. There was a sweet aftertaste to it though. The bitterness went away after a few steeps, not sure how many. The remaining...” Read full tasting note
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  • “This company has some great puerh. I’ve always enjoyed a majority of their productions, and this pressing is no different. I’ve heard a lot of noise about this tea, and the tea gods smiled on me...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Really like this sheng. Its fruity and pleasantly sour. With a slightly thick mouth. The strength of taste isnt too strong at first, and I have had three cups during extended lie-in butnow im...” Read full tasting note
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From Tea Urchin

Our blend of carefully selected, 100+ years old Yiwu 乔木 tea bushes, this is a punchy full flavored cake with lots going for it – brown sugar fragrance, a honey sweet liquor that coats the whole mouth, and some nice bitterness to balance. It is surprisingly complex, with the astringency of smaller trees, but easily countered with shorter steep times. Buy together with it’s sister cake – our 2013 Spring Yiwu Snake Blend which was made from ancient trees 古树 and provides an interesting comparison.

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Thanks a bunch to Yang-chu and the rest of the Steepsters who went in on a big TeaUrchin order! And special thanks to mrmopar for hooking me up with the puerh group order thread :)

Trying my first sheng from the shared cakes! YAY! The leaves are slightly glossy and beautifully compressed. (All the leaves from the TeaUrchin order appear high quality to my admittedly untrained eyes.) This is an energetic, punchy young thing with pleasant astringency and slight bitterness. Slight floral undertones and just enough sweetness to balance it out. I REALLY dig this. Very happy I got to have some. I will eagerly drink the rest :D

Can’t wait to try the others!
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boychik
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sounds soo good! Enjoy!

mrmopar
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I really liked this one also. Great example of good Yiwu tea.

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This is a very fragrant tea with scents of floral and brown sugar. It is a “Full bodied” sheng that brings a lot to the plate. It starts out very subtle in the first couple of steeps with notes of some slight sweetness that is very full mouth feeling. It carries on well in the later steeps with some bitterness that rises to the front. It is pretty gentle to be a young sheng with none of the harsh bitterness many bring to the cup. Very nice and enjoyable.
Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 0 min, 15 sec 10 g 10 OZ / 295 ML
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mrmopar
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Yeah I think we are getting a community order in for The Tea Urchin.

Stephanie
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Do they offer just samples for sale? I don’t have proper whole cake storage yet…

mrmopar
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They do, I bought this one as a sample with a couple of cakes from them.
http://teaurchin.com/yiwu-peacock-blend-2013-spring.html.
that link should get you there. We are working on a community order since shipping is $20.00 US for any order. check the puerh of the day sheng or shou discussion.

Stephanie
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Thanks!!!

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