This episode, James & Denny drink a dark, plummy black tea from Yunnan Sourcing.
https://yunnansourcing.com/products/mengku-wild-arbor-assamica-black-tea-spring-2017
Tag: Yunnan Sourcing
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2016 Dayi 7452 Famous Ripe Pu’erh Recipe [Inbetweenisode 157]
This episode, drinks a tea he has been drinking casually recently, the Dayi recipe 7452. Acquired from Yunnan Sourcing.
5.5 Rating.
https://yunnansourcing.com/products/2016-menghai-7452-ripe-pu-erh-tea-cake
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ZETA, 2017 YS Rooster King Ripe Blind Tasting [Episode 248]
The final episode of the blind tasting is a ripe, Scott’s 2017 Rooster King.
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EPSILON, GAMMA. 2017 YS QMS, 2017 YS YB Yunnan Sourcing Raw Pu’erh Blind Tasting [Episode 247]
This episode, Denny and James complete the raw pu’erh portion of the Yunnan Sourcing blind tasting. Tasting has been coordinated by Matt of http://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/ and Yunnan Sourcing https://yunnansourcing.com/ . Big thank you to Matt and Scott!
The tea covered in this episode are Epsilon & Gamma, which are Yunnan Sourcing’s 2017 Qingmeishan & 2017 Yibang cake.
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Western Brands are Very Different from Big Factory Tea
- The data from this original post was originally taken from puer.cn, and isn’t totally complete (it’s probably missing some productions). The information is intended as a proxy to look at some trends. Here’s the dataset of White2Tea, Yunnan Sourcing, Dayi, and Xiaguan. Dayi and Xiaguan we looked at 2004-2006 and 2014-2016. For W2T/YS we just looked at 2014-2016.
It’s no secret that the pu’erh market has changed a lot. Old factories like Dayi and Xiaguan have remained mainstays, but are pretty different entities than they were 30 or 40 years ago. Boutiques and more recently westward facing vendors have popped up. Some have pressed long enough to fall into certain patterns for what they offer, i.e. vendor X sells tea as Wuliang every year. As we’ve examined in what western vendors put into their inventory, boutique western facing vendors don’t necessarily offer a balanced selection of pu’erh. So are these big Chinese vendors offering the same sort of tea as we see places like Yunnan Sourcing or White2Tea are? Not exactly. (more…)
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DELTA, 2017 YS Jingmai Yunnan Sourcing Raw Pu’erh Blind Tasting [Episode 246]
This episode Denny and James do part 2 in their Yunnan Sourcing blind tasting.Tasting has been coordinated by Matt of http://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/ and Yunnan Sourcing https://yunnansourcing.com/ . Big thank you to Matt and Scott!
The tea covered in this episode is Delta, which is Yunnan Sourcing’s 2017 Jingmai cake.
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ALPHA, BETA, Yunnan Sourcing Raw Pu’erh Blind Tasting [Episode 245]
This episode Denny and James start a three episode series on some Yunnan Sourcing teas, tasted blind. Tasting has been coordinated by Matt of http://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/ and Yunnan Sourcing https://yunnansourcing.com/ . Big thank you to Matt and Scott!
The teas covered in this episode are Alpha and Beta.
Alpha is the 2017 YS Mushucha.
Beta is the 2017 YS Hetaodi.
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You Can Buy Young Pu’erh From All Over Yunnan
The custom private label pu’erh has really thrived in the western market – with vendors increasingly sourcing their own pressings directly from Yunnan. This was a new thing for westerners back in 2009 when just Yunnan Sourcing and Essence of Tea pressed tea. Now it is almost a rite of passage for a pu’erh-centric vendor, and we have access to a sleuth of options all over Yunnan. (more…)
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YS High-Mountain Pomelo Flower Dancong [Inbetweenisode 154]
This episode, James and Meet drink another of Meet’s favorite’s Dancong Oolong. The tea is Pomelo Flower Dancong provided by Yunnan Sourcing.
https://yunnansourcing.com/products/high-mountain-pomelo-flower-aroma-dan-cong-oolong-tea-spring-2017
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Don’t Call it Wet! YS Guangdong and Banna Stored Tastings
Yunnan Sourcing has quietly added quite a selection of semi-aged pu’erh stored in more humid conditions, not a bad feat for a vendor mainly known for Kunming dry-stored tea and the YS label. Getting the sample itch, I convinced my local tea friend Garrett (also featured in the MX report) to split a few samples and write up some notes. We picked a handful of teas that looked interesting and added a couple teas I already own that fit into the category. (more…)