2012 Canton Tea Raw Mini Beeng Cha

Tea type
Pu'erh Tea
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Flavors
Apricot, Broth, Green Wood, Hay, Nectar, Pleasantly Sour, Sweet, Warm Grass, Thick, Vanilla
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205 °F / 96 °C 0 min, 15 sec 8 g 240 oz / 7097 ml

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  • “81/100 for the pleasant smoothness but the lack of standout qualities. A great tea for the money, more brothy than sour, almost like the middle steeps of a buttery Bao Zhong , this tea could age...” Read full tasting note
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From Canton Tea Co

his is a good quality 100g cake which makes a great entry level choice. It’s easy-drinking and accessibly-priced for every day consumption. Made from autumn raw material from the famous Yi Wu mountain, the cake has the classic flavors of good raw puerh: bright and mildly astringent with a nice lively mouth-feel. As it ages, the flavor will become softer, smoother, deeper and sweeter with every year.

About Canton Tea Co View company

Canton Tea Co is a London-based tea company trading in high grade, whole leaf Chinese tea. We have exclusive access to some of the best jasmine, white, green, oolong, black and authentic puerh teas available. In our first year, we scooped Six Golds at the 2009 Guild of Fine Food Great Taste Awards. Our Jasmine Pearls won the top three star gold award, endorsing it as the best available in the UK.

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81/100 for the pleasant smoothness but the lack of standout qualities. A great tea for the money, more brothy than sour, almost like the middle steeps of a buttery Bao Zhong , this tea could age into something rich and sweet given some time.

Still on the green side both visually and flavor wise in October 2017, my recent delivery of this tea brews a rounded, pleasant tea. Leaf grade/size is variable but nothing giant or too damaged. Some care was taken when making these cakes and I can imagine Canton feels that anything with their company name on it has to be Good. Overall a good tea, not nearly as sour as their current Wu Jia single origin, this is a sweet, thick Sheng that would age up into something rich and powerful. Hyper affordable, this and their house Shu are both the best quality:cost ratio teas I’ve bought. Neither is stunning, both are wonderful. This would be a good ‘show someone the less challenging sides of Sheng’ tea and is affordable enough to be a gift cake. This also might be one of those Shengs that could be the basis for a vegetable soup broth.

Celadon Teapot – 240ml – 8g – 15-second rinse, rest for a minute or two.

15s/210’ – Vanilla, strong apricot, sweet, thick, wet hay (in the good sense), heartwood, Dried longan, savory notes, clean brothyness. Pours a bit cloudy. Leaves smell of sour melon, sweetgrass, buffalo grass, nectar, Apricot.
10s/210’-mint, sweet wood, sweetgrass, smelling some of the current storage on it in a good way, not soil but wet forest floor, sour flavors coming out more. Still thick, slightly less sweet, but coating. Has a sour that appears after you swallow. A bit astringent in here, maybe just young, maybe too hot H20.
25s/205 -

Flavors: Apricot, Broth, Green Wood, Hay, Nectar, Pleasantly Sour, Sweet, Warm Grass, Thick, Vanilla

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 0 min, 15 sec 8 g 240 OZ / 7097 ML

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