2005 Naka

Tea type
Pu'erh Tea
Ingredients
Green Tea Leaves
Flavors
Mineral, Scotch, Smoke, Spicy, Tobacco, Wet Earth, Wet Wood, Smooth, Sour, Almond, Oak, Plum, Apricot, Wood, Dried Fruit, Medicinal, Pine, Raisins, Astringent, Decayed Wood, Drying, Sap, Wet wood
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Caffeine
Medium
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205 °F / 96 °C 0 min, 30 sec 6 g 4 oz / 105 ml

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  • “5g / 90ml Hongni “Fang Xia” from Essence of tea Dry leaves: camphor, peat, sweet hay Wet leaves: baked pears, ash, smoke, medicinal herbs. The aroma is sweet and pleasant, with nothing offensive....” Read full tasting note
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  • “Relaxing. Couldn’t be bothered to remove old leaves for we go high and last thoughts from the pot. Naka isn’t my favorite taste/scent profile so it was an experiment. Eh. Energy is good. Taste...” Read full tasting note
  • “I usually like smoky and spicy puer but this did not satisfy my craving. Medium body, smooth finish, and slightly sour I felt this tea is meant for drinkers who enjoy darker brews of coffee or...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Got a 20 gram sample of this tea. Must say I was quite impressed. Brewed up a deep orange color. I did 8 steepings of 10 sec, 10 sec, 15 sec, 20 sec, 25 sec, 30 sec, 45 sec and 1 minute. ...” Read full tasting note
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From white2tea

Naka raw puer tea pressed April first of 2005. Stored in excellent humid, but not too humid conditions. The first couple of steeps retain astringency. Depth of feeling in the throat and slick texture in the mouth. Our opinion is that this tea generates an uncommon body response of deep calm.

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50 tasting notes

Idk if it’s a placebo from reading the description on w2t, but I feel so relaxed and content right now. This is my first high quality aged puer and was expecting more huigan, but maybe I’m just spoiled with teadontlie right now.

Preparation
5 g 3 OZ / 90 ML

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Being a complete qi lightweight I was REALLY looking forward to trying this one. But I felt nothing. I need to revisit although part of the problem is that I like to drink tea first thing in the morning on an empty stomach but I didn’t want to do that with this one and be out of it for the day.

I steeped about 15-20 times to make sure I wasn’t missing something.

Taste: I guess no-one drinks this for the taste. All I got was old books :(

Preparation
Boiling 0 min, 30 sec 2 g 2 OZ / 45 ML
Babble

Awww I was interested in trying this for the tea high too. I appreciate your honesty. I bet I’d have similar results as you.

Babble

Yep. I’m underwhelmed with this tea too. Did you get your sample from the Puerh+ box too? Maybe it’s the sample.

pkts

Whoops, didn’t see this ! Bummer. No, my sample was purchased from W2T. I need to retest this one (and Last Thoughts and If you are reading this…) to make sure I get nothing although I DID feel something from If You Are Reading This… and considering buying a cake (if I can replicate it next brewing)!

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Started this late last night—way beyond the time that I usually drink pu-erh. However, thanks to LP and the Pubertea Group Buy I had to try it first.

The wet/dry leaf reminded me of old books; while the flavor was layered with honey, wood, and raisins. I had 9 infusions before bed, and I was so far gone, I thought that I wanted to go to sleep, but also read Shakespeare aloud to my wife and dogs. I felt happy, as a child might feel on Christmas morning, finding that “Santa Claus” had left them all of the joys of youth at the base of the tree. Could I go on? Yes. But I think this settles it for now.

zacherywolf7

this was beautiful

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67 tasting notes

smokey taste dominates but its smooth balanced smokiness, not a harsh rough bitterness. There was also what some other people described as a sourness, which I can relate. Its a contrasting flavor that isn’t really a flavor, so I’ll just say “sour” anyway. The flavors are one-dimensional. Its pretty much gentle smooth creamy smoke. That’s about it.

No bitterness, no aftertaste, no sweetness, slightly mouth drying at the end of the session.

Not seeing what the hype is about for this one. HOLY SH*T! To think I paid this much? at $1.28/g? This is a decent tea, it got me slightly drunk, although I had it on an empty stomach, and I eased off the tea midway through session so that the drunkenness didn’t fully overwhelm (I eased off because I felt the wooziness coming on). Lasted over 12 steepings.

Decent amber color, definitely 11ish years old. But IMHO not worth the price. Not even really glad I tried it to be honest, but now I have a point of reference when other people rave…well…don’t believe everyone’s rantings.

After pondering this tea, its a pure “drunkeness” tea. You drink it to get tea drunk. You drink it for the chi. I think this would be better material for blending to increase chi of other better tasting teas more complex teas, but not as a stand alone tea.

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1113 tasting notes

Fu*king worth the money.

What else do you need to know? Stored like a boss. Taste complex with notes of I WANT MORE. Feels of disappearing anxiety.

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The infamous 05’ Naka! I decided that Christmas would be a wonderful time to remove this from storage and give it a steam. I’ve heard much murmuring and whispers about this “buzz” tea, so I needed to taste it for myself. I opened up the jar and grabbed a heavy chunk. The leaves are loosely pressed together, and they are a wild assortment of dark reddish brown tendrils. This cake gives off a nice deep scent of dark decayed wood, dried fruit sweetness, and some slight smoked tobacco. I broke some off and placed it inside my warmed jianshui. My brewing vessel exploded with intense aromas of pine resin, deep tobacco, and that same decayed wood. I washed the leaves once and prepared for brewing. The steeped leaves give off a deeper smokier scent with some sweet sap, saw wood, and more pine resin. This is a very deep and bold brew. The first sip was phenomenal with a clean dry taste mixed with a sweet plum aftertaste. The dry flavor resembled a light wood tone, such as oak. The brew was mostly soft tones with a pleasant and thick huigan. Also, I’d like to note that this session was taking place at a dining table during breakfast with many people around me (I was the only tea drinker). The brew grew pleasantly sour by the next two steeps and a mild eucalyptus flavor developed at the third steeping. The huigan grew more and more thick, as did the initial dry taste. At the fifth steeping, I began to look around the table, and I attempted to talk to someone sitting next to me. Again, I “attempted”. This session, mixed with being up late last night playing"Santa", and a busy morning left me feeling like I had been hit by a truck. The session continued, and I was picking up a beautifully sweet dried fruit flavor in later steeping sessions. Also, i carried a silly grin and muddled half opened eyes. I was having a good time, and this tea complimented that quite well. This brew gave me a deep calming feeling, as it states in the description. I felt as though my body was melting, and my muscles began to soothe. I couldn’t help but grin and laugh at my lazy posture. I was able to get quite a bit of steeps from my pot; however, at one point I had to get up and move around for fear I would pass out and bounce my head off the tea table. This is a peculiar and wonderful brew, and I am really happy to have some more of it. I do need to learn when and where to break it out though, ahaha.

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Flavors: Astringent, Decayed Wood, Dried Fruit, Drying, Oak, Plum, Sap, Tobacco

Preparation
Boiling 0 min, 15 sec 7 g 3 OZ / 100 ML
Dr Jim

You inspired me to break out my sample. Delicious! And VERY relaxing.

Haveteawilltravel

loved it :) A beautiful wind down brew.

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107 tasting notes

Earlier today I spent two hours in a dentist chair enduring the replacement of four fillings and a new crown. The numbness encompassing the right side of my head has worn off, and the 600mg of Motrin might as well have been a handful of Skittles. Two hours in that chair I sat, listening to the drill, feeling my head rattle, smelling the smoke, and straining to keep my jaw open for way more time than the human jaw is meant to stay open. Not unlike Patrick “The Hooligan” Holohan after an epic beatdown, my mind was set on one thing and one thing only:

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Now that I can finally drink without dribbling the contents of my cup down my chin, I have chosen to enjoy an inaugural steep of White2Tea’s 2005 Naka. I know that because of the issues going on with my mouth that I’ll have to drink this tea again to get a true sense of it, but because I’m still feeling that post dental appointment crappiness, I suspect this tea will hit the spot once I get going.

Tobacco is the predominant aroma I’m getting from the wet leaf. It’s incredibly smooth and not what I consider to be bitter, but I am getting a fair amount of mouth puckering astringency. Lots of pipe tobacco in the flavor too. I bet a pipe smoker would love this tea.

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By the third steep I am starting to feel funny. Like my head is floating above my body like a balloon. I’m over ten steeps now I think (once again I suck at keeping track of that). I feel pretty warm and mellow at this point. Like I’m wrapped in a fleece blanket. All I need are those little hotdogs, like maybe 25 or 30 of them. No no no no no. Not hotdogs. I’m going to have stop this review right now and head out to the Dank Burrito for some pork belly tacos. Later!

boychik

you are funny. i dont drink anything special when i go to the dentist. the taste of medicine in my mouth makes me even nauseous.

jschergen

I’ve sessioned this a bunch.

Interesting to hear about it being so smoky. I get a slight amount but perhaps I’m more immune to it. I’ve also heard others saying similar things about it.. There’s a little bit of roughness (at least compared to those YQH cakes) that it still has left to sort out but I do enjoy this tea a lot in most of my sitdowns with it.

curlygc

@jschergen: To my palate, tobacco flavor is different from smoke. To me the aroma and flavor is like unlit pipe tobacco or an unlit cigar. It isn’t smokey at all really. I know, I’m weird.

keychange

Oh my goodness, your pour mouth/jaw!

Cwyn

Nothing like the ’05 Naka to take the edge off the dentist enough to ruin the dental work with munchies!

bef

Regarding tobacco/smoke: I used to consider this tea somkey, but now I realize that it’s closer to an ash taste. But I still taste some smoke in there.

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21 tasting notes

Back to this tea (again), the cake is disappearing faster than I like to admit. Chip off ~11g for a ~150ml yixing; that’ll hit the spot (where I dance involuntarily with a grin on my face while touching the music).

Quick rinse, leaf aroma is sweet woody with a little smoke; let it rest for 10 minutes and flash brew. Liqour is deep orange, aroma is predominantly sweet. Light bitterness and some astringency, probably in part due to my relatively high leaf:water ratio. Flavor is sweet and woody, medium body/texture, leaves an oily mouth and throat (that is offset by some lingering bitterness). On later steeps, I sense some new stonefruit notes and a hint of vanilla in the aroma.

It’s not an exceptional experience in terms of dynamic taste, but the energy is unusually strong, and I find myself going back to this tea more often than I thought I would. Not exactly a bargain at almost $1/g, but if you want to experience a tea with strong qi, this is a good one to sample. Recommend focused brewing with your favorite music.

edit: it’s two days later and I’m still steeping this tea; the longevity is excellent..

Preparation
11 g 5 OZ / 150 ML

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This is a good tea but I don’t think I will drop $285 on it. I bought the sample in the White2Tea Black Friday sale and am just now getting around to trying it. I would describe this tea as a mixture of mild sweetness and aged flavor, I don’t know a better way to describe the aged flavor. There was little bitterness in this tea although the aged flavor was strong and in some ways bitter too, if that is a good description.

It seems that I am simply not meant for the effect from tea that some here report getting. While this tea had a relaxing effect on me I can’t claim to have gotten tea drunk. Perhaps 6.6g tea for 150ml was not enough tea, perhaps next time I will use more. I have enough of the sample left for at least two more sessions.

I brewed this eight times in a 150ml gaiwan with 6.6g leaf and 200 degree water.I rinsed this tea and gave it a ten minute rest. I steeped it for 10 sec, 10 sec, 15 sec, 20 sec, 25 sec, 30 sec, 45 sec, and 1 min. I have saved the leaves and will go back to this tea later. Hopefully I have gotten all the caffeine at this point and the rest will effectively be decaf.

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 0 min, 15 sec 6 g 5 OZ / 150 ML
AllanK

Merry Christmas everyone!

Babble

I’m just trying this tea now and I agree with you. It’s a nice drinker, but definitely not getting that affect.

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301 tasting notes

Naka is in the Mengsong tea growing region. Generally I enjoy Mengsong teas and their elegant character. This particular cake has gently pressed leaves and picking the cake apart is very easy. Soft warm aroma comes from the wet leaves and the dark golden tea soup. Early brews are a bit light in taste with a slight hint of smoke but this changes in later cups. There is a light underlying bitterness in the early sips. Even with the first cups, there is a very pleasant aftertaste which continues throughout the tea session. The activity in the mouth is persistent and good. In later cups I discover a low, dark sweetness which is rather enjoyable. The qi is strong and obvious with this one. Lovely tea that works hard to put the mind at rest – in fact, silencing the mind allowing you to feel the peace of the moment. The price is high but the quality matches the price.

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 0 min, 15 sec 5 g 3 OZ / 90 ML
Stephanie

Naka! I keep hearing great things :)

MzPriss

I LOVE this Naka. It was (one of) my holiday presents to me

DigniTea

This one is rather special. Seems like Naka has become quite popular recently. Like any other tea region, the quality of the Naka material used by the farmer/producer varies quite a bit. Good material and almost 10 years of age on this one which explains the high price.

Yang-chu

yet another marvelous review.

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