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Early Spring "Sun-Dried Buds" Wild Pu-erh Tea Varietal | Yunnan Sourcing Tea Shop

Early Spring "Sun-Dried Buds" Wild Pu-erh Tea Varietal

by Yunnan Sourcing Tea Shop
$7.00 - $82.00
$7.00
$7.00 - $82.00
$7.00
These little white buds come from wild-growing Camellia Assamica Dehongensis varietal. It is a sub-varietal of camellia that grows in the tropical area of Dehong and Lincang in southwestern Yunnan. The buds are picked in early February and then sun-dried. The flavor is fresh and a little fruity somewhat similar to a good white tea but more complex flavors. The brewed liquor is whitish and clear, and there is a hint of fresh pine needles in the aroma!

Vintage:  Mid-Late February
Production area:  Mangshi County of Dehong (Yunnan)
Pure Bud Pluck
Camellia Dehongensis varietal

Overall rating: 4.452381 / 5 from 42 reviews.

AI Generated Review Summary

Early Spring 'Sun-Dried Buds' Wild Pu-erh Tea Varietal from Dehong, Yunnan, offers a fresh and fruity taste with hints of honey and resin. Customers appreciate its floral and piney aroma. The quality of the buds is noted for adding a nice touch to the mix.

Summary topics

  • Taste: 45%
  • Aroma: 21%
  • Bud Quality: 15%

Review topics: ["taste","quality","smell","tea","aroma","sweetness","bitterness","brew","fragrance","body","color","buds","notes","liquor","spice","infusions","astringency","temperatures","dust"].

Review highlights

  • "Smells good and tastes delicious." — Mitchell Y.
  • "I would say "resinous," with the same volatile, aromatic compounds pine resin has, High minerality, very fresh tasting." — Colin P.
  • "It smells fresh and has a subtle sweet note to its body" — Patrick K.

Reviews

Just heavy heavy pine/hops and nothing else

"This just tastes like drinking pine cones. It brews an almost completely transparent tea, no colour whatsoever, and smells and tastes just pungently piney. Really there was nothing else there. If you like heavily hopped beers you may enjoy this as the taste is somewhat similar I think, but otherwise I would avoid, and even if you do want that hoppy, piney-ness, I would consider mixing this with another tea for some body to go with it."

— Isaac (2/5)

Fun to try!

"This tea is fun and different, I haven’t really tried anything like this. Before I read the comments, my thought on the aroma was more of a citrus blossom scent rather than the pine forest everyone mentions, but I can see that as well. Brews up very light and clear in color. I think this definitely benefits from longer brews at high temps to bring out the most flavor. Seems like it could a fun tea to brew and then chill for a hot summer day."

— Patrick B. (4/5)

Intresting

"Piney , sweet , no astringency / bitterness/ smokiness even when overbrewed in 98C water . Would be amazing to see this year’s production be processed into oolong or black tea if possible, also i imagine making a tea resin out of this would be easy and extraordinarily tasty"

— Godo C. (5/5)

In a piney forrest

"Eyeballed 7 grams of This beautiful looking tea into a 110 ml gaiwan , first steep for 20 seconds at 80C , produced a clear liqueur with almost no color and tastes amazing ! Sweet and the flavor of a morning in a forrest full of pines . Would highly recommend as it is also quite cheap!"

— Godo (5/5)

Unique tea with great flavour

"A light tea with Pine flavours and a light sweetness, if you enjoy green teas and white teas this is a must try, Brewed 4 grams at ~70-85c in 125ml gaiwan for 25 seconds"

— Alex (4/5)

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— Lanny O. (5/5)

I don't like this tea

"Unique shape, scent too grassy and piney, way different than described."

— Coco S. (2/5)

An entire forest in a cup of tea

"This is an incredibly unique and delicious tea. A bit floral, fruity, and as many others have mentioned - pine-y. It has the aroma of fresh tree saplings and leaves. If you enjoy "green" flavor profiles, you will be impressed!"

— jon j. (5/5)

Fresh, subtle, sweet

"It smells fresh and has a subtle sweet note to its body"

— Patrick K. (4/5)

Very interesting.

"The nose has a bit of passionfruit to go with the pine resin and straw, but the dominant note is freshly roasted jalapeno pepper skin. It comes across more like a white than a green tea, with minimal vegetal/grassy notes and zero bitterness even when brewed with boiling water. It makes a light-textured brew with a taste that matches the nose, but with the roasted jalapeno toned down and supported by a thick backbone of straw and minerality."

— Sarge (4/5)

Q&A

Does this tea age gracefully like some other white teas, or is this best experienced fresh?
It ages nicely. You can try a 2020 harvest and 2023 side-by-side for comparison.
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