This episode, I drink an interesting ripe blend from Yunnan Sourcing, the 2019 Bawang. The tea has a strong base, good body, and some solid bitterness. I very much enjoy it and think it may improve with time. https://yunnansourcing.com/
Rating: 6.6
This episode, I drink an interesting ripe blend from Yunnan Sourcing, the 2019 Bawang. The tea has a strong base, good body, and some solid bitterness. I very much enjoy it and think it may improve with time. https://yunnansourcing.com/
Rating: 6.6
Denny and I drink a higher-end ripe from W2T. The tea is complex and layered. Well above average ripe pu’erh. https://white2tea.com/
In my first couple years of drinking pu’erh I sampled heavily. Many vendors and many different teas. While I originally did not go into it with a goal of trying specifically young pu’erh, this ended up making a pretty strong majority of pu’erh that I sampled. This is due to a few factors. One is that there’s a predictable vendor drop with the harvest, sometime in late Spring/early summer or in mid-Autumn. This generates demand and buzz amongst the tea community. The second is that young pu’erh makes up the vast majority of raw pu’erh being sold to the west. If you put together a list of the five most popular western pu’erh-centric vendors and listed all of the teas they’ve released in the past year and randomly picked 10, you’d likely end up with ~8 or so being young pu’erh. You actually need to be pretty intentional about not picking young pu’erh if you want to try a different category of raw pu’erh..
(more…)This episode, Denny and I drink a premium Yancha from WuyiOrigin. The tea is complex, dynamic, and very tasty. https://www.wuyiorigin.com/
I drink a ripe from Yunnan Sourcing’s 2019 line here. The tea has been my morning brew for a week or so and is partly creamy and woody and well-balanced.
Rating: 5.9
This episode I drink a tea I originally featured about 5 years ago on the show, the 2009 Yongde Daxueshan. Now that tea is 11 years old and it is an interesting revisit to test both the tea and my storage.
Rating: 6.5
2020 Progress Report: https://teadb.org/2020-tea-progress-report/
Original Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwrAhUfg4gk&feature=emb_title
This episode we drink a very old ripe pu’erh stored in Taiwan. Thanks to Wooju for providing the tea!
This episode, I bring on another ripe I’ve been storing for several years. Unlike the previous two Dayi episodes, this tea has larger leaf grade (size 8) and features a very different profile. I really enjoy this tea.
Rating: 7.3
This episode, we drink a fresh, sweet, robust raw pu’erh from Tea-Encounter. The tea is from the Bangdong area within Lincang.
This episode, Denny and I drink a relatively fresh Silver Needle tea from WuyiOrigin. Slightly atypical, but very enjoyable.