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“Let me start this review with a frustratingly hard-to-open wrapper. I don’t know who thought that the sticker might be a good idea on puerh cakes but it ruins the whole wrapping paper. After the...” Read full tasting note
The name of this tea ‘Wu Gu Feng Deng’ (五谷丰登) is a Chinese saying which describes a ‘prosperous harvest’. During old times, great harvest years are celebrated and remembered. In modern times, this saying may have less meaning, but with the older Chinese generations, it brings back memories of abundant years during periods of hardship.
Inspired by such emotions, the Xiaguan Tea Factory presents a tea cake with leaves harvested during the golden autumn season, when at the same time grains are harvested. Raw material from ancient Yunnan mountains are used, and skill-fully blended and processed by Xiaguan’s tea masters.
This raw tea cake appears very fine with visible silvery tea buds and the surface has this deliciously slightly glossy look. Its taste is thick and smooth, and reveals the true taste of an ‘Golden Autumn’.
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Xiaguan Tuocha Co. Ltd.Let me start this review with a frustratingly hard-to-open wrapper. I don’t know who thought that the sticker might be a good idea on puerh cakes but it ruins the whole wrapping paper.
After the initial steeps, the leaves are emitting crisp and tangy aromas which shortly transform into a more mature and deep smell: sweet plum, cinnamon maybe. The notes are understandably complex and a bit dark.
The soup is orange colored and it gets deeper and deeper in its hue. The taste has camphor-like, plum and grape(fruit) notes and in its texture strongly astringent. Even more so than what I’ve experienced recently in a 2023 puerh cake.
Flavors: Astringent, Camphor, Grapefruit, Grapes, Plum
