This episode, Denny and I drink an aromatic approachable young sheng from Tea Encounter. This is part of Tea Encounter’s inaugural set of productions. Congrats to Tiago!
2019 Tea Encounter Baiyingshan Raw Pu’erh [Episode 349]
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2 responses to “2019 Tea Encounter Baiyingshan Raw Pu’erh [Episode 349]”
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I picked up some of this tea and found it a bit peculiar. Not bad at all, just strange. I’ve been drinking puerh for a while and this one has thrown me for a loop. The taste is a bit beany like green tea and the spent leaves look very shiny and rubbery….in a way I haven’t really seen in any tea. Could be that this was processed in a more “drink it now” green/oolong way or could be that I haven’t had wild Lincang tea before. Did this one surprise you at all?
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Just wanted to reply to my own message to see if I’m on the right track. While being perplexed by this tea, I wondered if this could be “purple tea” or Camellia dehongensis. In my experience “yesheng” is usually referring to old teas/gushu rather than a difference species of tree, but I see that it can go both ways. Am I on to something?
MattCha has a post on this and it seemed to ring true:
http://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2017/09/wild-puerh-tea-is-not-really-puerh-tea.html
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