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2015 Bao He Xiang "Menghai Peacock" Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake

2015 Bao He Xiang "Menghai Peacock" Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake

by Bao He Xiang Brand
$16.00 - $169.50
$16.00
$16.00 - $169.50
$16.00

This is a 2015 Spring Harvest blend of Menghai raw pu-erh teas.  Wild arbor mao cha was harvested from several different areas of Menghai (Bu Lang, Ba Da, He Kai, and Pa Sha) and blended together to create a robust, full-bodied and complex tea.  The tea has been aged in Guangzhou since 2015 where it's been cleanly stored.  The tea has more bitterness than the  Nan Nuo and Jing Mai Peacock tea cakes, probably due to it's high percentage of Bu Lang material.  An excellent tea for those who appreciate a high quality blended Menghai Pu-erh tea cake.

Li Wen Hua is a long time Pu-erh veteran, he's been producing pu-erh for Xinghai Tea Factory (1996-2004) and then later worked for the Menghai Tea Factory as a master tea blender from 2004 to 2008.  Several Da Yi brand ripe and raw blends can be credited to Li Wen Hua. In 2011 Li Wen Hua founded the Bao He Xiang 宝和祥 Brand of Pu-erh Tea with a distinct focus on creating high quality blended ripe and raw pu-erhs as well as single mountain blends as well.  Bao He Xiang is a relatively small brand with productions ranging from 250 kilograms to 2000 kilograms in total. 

357 Grams per cake

2015 Spring Harvested Tea

Wrapped in Hand-Made Dai Minority paper.

** Some wrappers may be bug-bitten with little holes in the paper. There may also be some dust between the wrapper and the cake. Rinse tea once or twice briefly before drinking! If you are squeamish please don't order this tea!

Overall rating: 4.6 / 5 from 5 reviews.

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Quite good

"On board with the comments below, definitely all-around menghai taste, relatively soft and rounded, yet strong and complex, exellent throat-cooling hui gan and floaty chi. Maybe lacks a more defined intrigue to keep me hooked, but I'm often not too much into blends anyway, so it's just me !"

— RemJ (4/5)

Smoky and complex

"Smoky and complex"

— Insuk H. (4/5)

It's fantastic

"I love this one. It's got a great smooth mouthfeel with just enough bitterness to keep things interesting. For me it started tobacco/spicy with plenty of umami, and a new floral note came out at around the 4th steep, and stayed there. It's still going strong after the 12th steep. You can tell it's a blend and you can tell there's some age in it too. Ralph's review described it well! Overall a fantastic choice if you prefer darker flavoured puerh. Also a great one to get what Menghai/Bulang are about!"

— Jandro (5/5)

A truly great blend

"This producer brings incredible blending experience to the fore in this tea, which for me was smooth, fresh, and filled with both honey aromas with a bit of pleasant mushroom as well. Highly recommend and great value for the quality, with nice energy as well."

— Jonathan K. (5/5)

it's a blend :)

"just like the product info says, this tea is a blend of 4 areas, and you can taste it. it has a smooth component, then a slightly bitter one that only makes up 25% of it, a very aged tasting one and a fruity one. sure, it's too easy to simply refer with a few descriptors to each of the 4 areas, but it might not be so far streched.. this tea tastes good as expected from a bao he xiang, nothing is too strong or too little to enjoy, it's a perfect blend. the soup is a bit thin though, but not too thin to enjoy it, so the material might not be of very old age, but i wouldn't expect that from an affordable BHX tea anyway. where other shengs would taste awful or strange after 4 years of aging, this one does the same with a remarkable soft and round impression where you can still enjoy the tea in it's in-between phase that has obviously started in this 4 year old sheng. aromas i find in here are "darker", aged, oily, resin, fruity, slightly fresh in the mouth, sugary/bittersweet honey. flowers, mushroom, camphor, stone, chalk."

— Ralph R. (5/5)

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