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2018 Yunnan Sourcing "Serendipity" Ripe Pu-erh Tea Cake

2018 Yunnan Sourcing "Serendipity" Ripe Pu-erh Tea Cake

by Yunnan Sourcing Brand Pu-erh
$11.25 - $67.75
$11.25
$11.25 - $67.75
$11.25

This tea is the result of a rather haphazard blend of ripe teas that I threw together one morning in April 2018.  The result was surprisingly excellent and I tried several other ratios of the teas, but in the end the first one I blended was the best.  

Lucy is featured prominently surrounded with explosions of spattered colors (illustrated by Timothy Sparling) on the wrapper of this cake.  My relationship with Lucy has been one which has provided an endless reservoir of serendipitous experiences that have transformed my approach to life.  Dogs live life in the moment, they never cease to be amazed by the endless variety of the world.  She is an explorer and will always choose the path she has never taken, over the one she knows.  Her thirst for experience and unbridled joy for living is something we can all learn from.  The Chinese have a saying "狗来富", which means literally "Dogs bring prosperity", but can be understood as "Dogs bring joy".

This tea is full-bodied, complex and imparts warm nurturing cha qi.

250 grams per cake (7 cakes per bamboo leaf tong)

Wrapper Design by Timothy Sparling

 

This tea has been tested in a certified laboratory for 191 pesticides, and is within the EU MRL limits set for those 191 pesticide residues. For a full list of the 191 pesticides we tested for and more information about MRL testing and the EU Food and Safety commission click on this link.

Overall rating: 5.0 / 5 from 3 reviews.

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Smooth!

"Wonderful everyday tea....smooth, silky, no bad odor or taste. Slight earthy taste of shou, but not overwhelming. Good for many steeps. Glad I bought two!"

— Monica D. (5/5)

Complex and tasty

"I like this tea quite a bit. Good complexity with the blend bringing an interesting session. This is really what I’d expect in just an everyday shou for me. The cake has a mellow aroma - hardwood and molasses, no funk now while there was maybe a touch at arrival. Taste is very multi-dimensional with ginseng and dark chocolate with more bitterness early on. Personally, I love some bitterness in shou and I’d say this is a fairly midline bitterness, nowhere near the Hai Lang Hao LaoMan’E ripe. Middle steeps are more or less chocolate while later ones are more like that antique shop taste of aged shou. This has a nice warming energy to it and steeps for a good time as well. All in all, I’m happy with this. If you liked the 2017 Crimson Rooster, grab this."

— heichaholiday (5/5)

Like a caramel, chocolate and cherry dessert

"Smooth, no wetpile taste, a little camphor/menthol, with some cha qi. Good for ~10 steeps. Initial steeps are very caramelly and chocolatey sweet and non-dry cherries. Starts strong! Middle and later steeps are less sweet and with some sourness, still with cherry."

— emil (5/5)

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