Reviews
Hello my old friend
"This tea is like meeting an old friend. Not to exciting, nothing fancy. But on the other hand it has solid qualitys. Sweet and mellow -well aged (wet) taste. The kind of cha qi which feels like a warm blanket is wrapped around you. I like to drink it grandpa style and thermos brew it when it's losing steam. Solid daily drinker which won't dissappoint."
— Daniel (5/5)
Not my Cup of tea,
"Not my Cup of tea, tastes a bit like mothballs smell, if you are into this go for it."
— Sebastian G. (3/5)
Spicy and woody
"This tea shows what producers of shou Puer are trying to achieve, but so rarely does. Dark, rich taste of mahogany wood, wet stone, and loads of herbs and spices. Aroma is storage heavy at first, but in no way in a bad way. Reminded me of the smell of lacquered paper umbrellas in my local Chinese shop. Well balanced, with a long lasting huigan. Not a beginner tea, but oh so rewarding. Can do lots of infusions - well over the 12 I did. Love it."
— Thomas N. (5/5)
Use a lot more leafs then you are used to
"This is a strange one, it has the aspects that the other reviewers are talking about, but in my honest opinion that is only when it is really pushed. If you make this in the normal gung fu way with even moderately high leaf ratios you will probably be disappointed. When made like that the tea will not be bad tasting but just lacking in strength, thickness, structure and aftertaste. On the other hand if you make it with atleast 7 gram per 100ml and pretty much double your normal steeping times then it turns into a decent old raw. There is no bite or astringency, you will not find that even when steeping for minutes, but it will have a strong woodsy taste with a bai leaf and brown sugar finish. Do not get this one if you dont wanna experiment with brewing times and leaf ratios, otherwise the tea will be quite lacking. Regards, Bram"
— Bram G. (3/5)
The strongest influence of wet storage character of all Guangdong Aged Raw Sampler set
"This tea has a strong aged wet-storage aroma (which reminds me of old wet wood and mushroom soup) which combines magnificently with aroma of tea leaves themselves (smooth and mellow). This combination is wonderful and I can strongly recommend it to wet storage, "chen xiang" and long-term storage fans. The taste of this tea is very smooth with absoutely no astrigency or bitterness. The cha qi is powerful enouph, so 3g for a person can be a good dosage. This raw rises a blood pressure perceptibly, like most of the ripe pu erh, and can be recommended as an alternative for ripe pu erhs. The drawback of this tea is that (in my home conditions) it loses his amazing strong wet storage aroma fast enough and the smell of a brewed tea becomes too weak. So I think it would be better to keep a cake in a sealed bag and never change the bag because You'll lose a lot of aroma with it. Also, it could be bad idea to buy many cakes at once. If You're a fan of dry storage or young raws with grassy and flovery aromas, this tea is definitely not for You. But it's musthave for wet storage lovers!"
— Dmitry V. (5/5)
Beauty in tea
"I need to keep on this aged thing. This tea had to be incredible young because it's on another level aged. The complex flavors changed through the steeps. It had an incredible mouthfeel that was big and earthy, sometimes mushrooms flavors, and approaching black tea in strength if steeped a little long. I couldn't walk away until these leaves were as done as done could be."
— Nathan D. (5/5)
Clean and very interesting
"This is the oldest (as in aged the longest) tea I have tried to date, although I just got some older ones recently. It is very interesting for me in the sense that it seems like a delightful mixture of notes that defferent aspects of it resemble various teas like shou, aged white, sheng, oriental beauty and dianhong. The smell is initially similar to a lot of ripe pu-erh, but very clean. It is sweet, earthy and nutty with notes like camphor, peat and prunes. It is very complex and later throughout the session becomes more woody and medicinal. There are aromas of spruce, oak, forest floor and chlorine. The liquor is super clean and its colour is located between dark orange and red. The taste is also clean and inoffensive, but definitely enjoyable even though it may lack some pungency. It starts off sweet, spicy and nutty with light bitterness. I can taste coffee and hazelnuts in particular. The second half of the session (steeps 7 to 10) is a bit more herbaceous, while the very end (steeps 11 to 13) is fruity with notes of apple, apricut and walnuts. These last few infusions remind me of aged shou mei a fair bit. Even better than the taste itself is probably the aftertaste, which is very long. It doesn’t really have much extra complexity over the taste though. The body is full and the mouthfeel is slimy, buttery, mouth-watering and a touch dry in the finish. I didn’t really notice any cha qi, apart from some coffeine effects in the chest around infusion 10. Overall, I got 13 infusions of about 100ml and one final simmer of 200ml. Getting 1.5l of tea from 6g of leaf seems like a lot to me, especially given that this is not likely to be made from old trees."
— Tomáš G. (5/5)
Great Quality!
"Got a sample of this and was greatly impressed! Extremely smooth but with a complex full flavor that washes over your whole mouth."
— Blake H. (5/5)
Interesting experience
"It was my first experience with sheng of this age and interesting one at that. Started with 10s infusion and my last one was about 20 minutes so it lasted me all morning to early afternoon. First infusions were mellow and mashroomy with occasional rice starch in texture slowly changing into sweet and fruity in later infusumions. About half way through it was all about dark juicy and sweet plums going to oxidized plum flesh towards the end. It never had any bitterness or astringency in taste and texture or aroma haven’t been very complex but it was really easy and enjoyable session all way through."
— Marcin K. (5/5)
