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2017 Bao He Xiang "Peach Cake" Raw Pu-erh Tea | Yunnan Sourcing Tea Shop

2017 Bao He Xiang "Peach Cake" Raw Pu-erh Tea

by Bao He Xiang Brand
$13.00 - $349.75
$13.00
$13.00 - $349.75
$13.00

"Peach Cake" is a unique blend from very sought after teas from Menghai and Yi Wu Mountain areas of Xishuangbanna.  Li Wen Hua has painstakingly blended this tea to achieve a strong and full bodied tea that will be enjoyed now and in the future.

About this tea in Li Wen Hua's words (pardon my poor translation)

"Drink a bottle of honey water, water like candied fruit, you can drink tea with peach taste. Peach blue cake, the tea soup, good water, when the flavor, aroma, qi, power are melted in water, it becomes like heavenly nectar.

The pursuit of the peach cake can be expressed in terms of “fibre”. “Fibre” stands for delicateness, “秾” stands for plumpness (brilliant), and the combination of the two brings us into a heavenly realm."

Li Wen Hua is a long time Pu-erh veteran, he's produced 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

Overall rating: 4.909091 / 5 from 11 reviews.

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Review topics: ["taste","sweetness","smell","tea","sheng","infusions","experience","character","soup","cake"].

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The pinnacle of sheng

"The experience of drinking this tea is indescribable, so I won't try to pinpoint it with technical details and flavour profiles - it must be experienced first hand. All I can say to motivate one to purchase a sample is: this is the most complex and rewarding tea I've had so far. The masterful levels of balance cause this tea to be both unbeatably complex and lingering. This tea is truly alive and evolves with every sip, let alone with every steep. Even the aftertaste evolves, like a good whiskey!"

— Joris D. (5/5)

Very nice

"A very nice raw pu erh, I normally prefer ripe pu erhs but this tea is a new favorite. It's lighter in color, more akin to an oolong, and has a light sweetness and slight floral/fruity taste that reminds me more of pear than peach. It does have an astringent taste the first couple of infusions but mellows out in the latter steeps I only purchased a sample, but the cake doesn't seem to be pressed to hard as it was easy to break off full leaves with just my fingers"

— Hannah S. (5/5)

Pleasant sweetness

"Very enjoyable sweetness that makes for a well balanced tea. Very easy to drink."

— Randy S. (5/5)

Superb tea

"This is a phenomenal tea, it has quite a significant Yi Wu flavor profile and it’s really quite sweet and „peachy“. I won’t try describing it too much, this tea is meant to be experienced. The tea is just a delight to drink and I’ll be picking up more cakes in the future for aging."

— Kevin H. (5/5)

Wonderful musk scent

"This tea is not the usual thing I would go for as I like my red/black teas and this is a bit too pale for me but there is something interesting about it for sure. It is a pale tea but still has a strong flavor......Though the right water temp is something you need or the astringent tannin's become apparent.....It is a very refreshing tea especially when allowed to go cold. The tea does have peach like taste with an amazing musky scent, which adds to the pleasure of drinking it. I would love to see how this tea develops with age."

— lucinda c. (5/5)

Young and underdeveloped

"The fitst couple infusions were very pleasing - sweet, full-bodied, quite thick. The peach flavor is there, as advertised, with the addiction of different young sheng's fragrance. It's very complex, has a lot of thing going on. Very quickly, a went through about 20 infusions, and the teasoup was still strong and thick. This tea would be a very good intreoduction for people who are unfamilliar with puer. It's NOT an everyday drinker, but rather a specieal occasions one. However, i personally would prefer to age it for a couple of years. Right now (january 2020) it's still too young and the the flavors are too strong and it almost seems unharmonised."

— tony (4/5)

Just about as good as tea gets

"This tea is magic. I had one of the best experiences I've ever had drinking tea today in a full session with it. Lost on clouds of qi, content to close my eyes and let life wander away. The taste is fantastic. It is perfect, perfect tea. This is why tea exists. Try it right away."

— Harley (5/5)

Lovely

"What an incredible tea. Full bodied and bold yet somehow still delicate. The sweetness was not over the top, but certainly present. I don't have sufficient words for how great this tea is."

— Nathan D. (5/5)

Tried the sample and had to get the cake!

"I'm getting notes that remind of stone fruit with all the layers including a subtle back note of white peach skin when brewed with a low leaf-to-water ratio and quick infusion times. Has deep fruity characteristics with a lingering honey sweetness. The Cha Qi isn't heady but instead "uplifting" and "happy". Shares a similar flavor/fragrance intensity to some single tree Dan Congs I've tried. Overall very happy with this young cake and will be exploring more from this maker."

— Patrick (5/5)

Wow

"At the moment I have another Bao He Xiang sheng cake on the way. After tasting this tea’s club sample I added immediately this one to my wishlist. That is how yummy this young sheng is to my palate. 😍😋"

— RA (5/5)

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