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!
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!
2 responses to “2019 Tea Encounter Baiyingshan Raw Pu’erh [Episode 349]”
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?
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