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“This is an interesting one, albeit more as an example than for its actual qualities. The description doesn’t lie; the tea is elegant, almost to a fault. The taste is essentially single note: a...” Read full tasting note
This was one of the cakes offered as part of our Puerh tea club. The idea with this tea club was to offer the best of the puerh we could find that year as part of a subscription package. After shipping all the subscriptions we have a few cakes of certain teas remaining in stock, so have decided to offer them for general sale online.
This tea is from the same garden as our 2015 Huangshanshu puerh tea
This year we asked them to process each of the biggest trees separately and pressed these teas as single tree cakes. Single tree tea offers a purity and refinement that is difficult (if not impossible) to match once different trees have been blended together. The tea is thick, smooth and very elegant in the mouth and throat. The aftertaste is steady and long-lasting. Single tree tea usually isn’t feasible to do on any kind of commercial scale & this was a special production we made for the purposes of the puerh tea club.
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Crimson Lotus TeaThis is an interesting one, albeit more as an example than for its actual qualities. The description doesn’t lie; the tea is elegant, almost to a fault. The taste is essentially single note: a smooth, slightly bitter flavor that seems typical of the region, but which I have a hard time describing. It’s quite mellow, with low astringency and a bit of thickness; early cups left some tingling and my tongue and the session’s concluded with a nice lingering throat-tightness caused by the tea’s light bitterness carrying over into the finish.
That said, the tea is subtle: I didn’t really notice the finish much until the end of the session and the qi and caffeine are both present, but only if you search for them. I didn’t find much durability here, either, having to start pushing it harder than I would have expected after the first couple of steeps. My sample was very loose, almost like maocha, which may have exacerbated that.
I’m not sure I’ve actually had anything that’s single tree before, which is why I grabbed the sample. As I said, there’s definitely a purity here, but it results in a loss of dynamism. The flavor presents itself at its boldest in the first several cups and then fades (a bit faster than I’d have liked) without really changing much. I have no regrets about having the sample, but I also have no desire to go in for a cake.
