2019 Yunnan Sourcing "He Kai Village" Ripe Pu-erh Tea Cake

Name: 2019 Yunnan Sourcing "He Kai Village" Ripe Pu-erh Tea Cake
Brand: Yunnan Sourcing Brand Pu-erh
Price: 88.0 USD
Availability: InStock

by Yunnan Sourcing Brand Pu-erh

$12.25 - $88.00

$12.25

$12.25 - $88.00

$12.25

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Spring 2018 He Kai village material wet piled in summer 2018! This is an incredibly rich tea with mineral and floral notes with a long lasting sweetness!

We are also offering three other Menghai area ripe teas with a similar wrapper (Meng Song, Ba Da, and Bu Lang Mountain).

250 Grams per Cake (7 cakes per bamboo leaf tong)

Wrapper Designed by Anastasija Kulda

Pressed June 1st 2019

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: 4.714286 / 5 from 7 reviews.

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What a treat. . .

"Thick and creamy. Feels like a mouthful of warm chocolate pudding. Soul-warming. . ."

— Ze *. (5/5)

Very unique

"I've never had a ripe quite like this one. It's got a very nice bitterness, but not too much of that strong camphor taste. It is very creamy and chocolatey, but balanced out and not boring. Wet pile taste is more or less gone at this point (or at least not strong enough to impact the taste significantly). I'd like to pick up another cake at some point once I finish the one I've got."

— Matt A. (5/5)

To be honest not impressed

"To be honest not impressed in therms of taste , but still great quality and I can steep it many times."

— Markijan G. (3/5)

Sings

"Dark woody, choclate-y with lots of interesting notes on the finish. Really lovely"

— Mark S. (5/5)

Sweet and Creamy with Cocoa Bitterness

"Very sweet and creamy—particularly on the nose—but with a fairly distinct cocoa note that provides just enough bitterness to keep things interesting. Too many of the ripes I've been tasting lately have been very sweet and creamy but with no bitterness. This gets sickly after a while, I find. This He Kai ripe, however, has a note I particularly like in ripe and find myself searching for. It's a cocoa bitterness, as I said, that is almost herbal. It simply provides an interesting counterpoint to the sweetness. If you think of ripe as a spectrum between black and red, with black being herbal and bitter and red being sweet and fruity, this lies somewhere in the middle. Also worth noting that it brews up nice and rich and has a pleasant energy to it."

— Patrick H. (5/5)

My ripe of the year

"I tasted this one blind in the sense that I wasn't aware of its price point vs the other piggy Menghai ripes. In my opinion this tea is well worth its price. The sample that I received had a pungent wet-piling fragrance, so I let it air for a day or 4. This is a stunner tea, it has the freshly baked full grain bread fragrance and flavour with complex sweetness that is broader than just malt sugar. The sweetness has a distinct floral aspect to it. The body is thick and creamy, with enough astringency to give the tea a nice bite. Nice strong cha qi. So in summary: this tea is experiencing freshly-baked full grain bread on a spring morning in a flower garden."

— Hans K. (5/5)