Thats definitely one of my favorites from Yang. It’s a very relaxing tea.
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2012 ‘Mother Tree’ Purple Tea Cake from The Tea Guru in UK
https://greenteaguru.co.uk/product/2012 ... -tea-cake/
Very fine almost black leaves comprise the cake, in fact they are so thinthat they look like fine sticks when dry. This cake has been dry stored and shows no signs of wet storage. I am enjoying the third steep already but I am a sucker for purple leaf pu'er teas.
https://greenteaguru.co.uk/product/2012 ... -tea-cake/
Very fine almost black leaves comprise the cake, in fact they are so thinthat they look like fine sticks when dry. This cake has been dry stored and shows no signs of wet storage. I am enjoying the third steep already but I am a sucker for purple leaf pu'er teas.
I always enjoy quality teas with clean storage like this one.
Had two really strong and satisfying 80s sheng puerh while exploring and admiring a late 50s Bamboo pot and a late 70s Flat Belly Pot. The tea had a very long lasting huigan and still packs a punch after so many years.
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Hi Rui. (I'm ex-kuanglong from teachat). Nice to see you and some other teachatters posting here. I'm glad you like your Mengku
. I finished another pot of 2016 YS Big Snow Mountain Wild Arbor last night. Despite being from the same area it tastes pretty different from the '1974' or any Mengku Shuangjiang in my stash but has some nice energy, a northern profile with a touch of florals and dark honey, decent mouthfeel and it's surprisingly sweet after a couple months in storage. I bought two tongs of this stuff for a friend, great bang for the buck IMO.Just started the day with a pot of 2013 Xiaguan T8653. This one and some older 8653s are some of my hardcore bread and butter standbys. Nothing fancy by any means but sooo satisfying. (About a year ago Canton Tea sold their remaining stash for about 12€/bing and I bought it all without thinking twice 
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Damned tea hoarder! And people say I am bad........Ken wrote: ↑Tue Oct 23, 2018 3:01 amJust started the day with a pot of 2013 Xiaguan T8653. This one and some older 8653s are some of my hardcore bread and butter standbys. Nothing fancy by any means but sooo satisfying. (About a year ago Canton Tea sold their remaining stash for about 12€/bing and I bought it all without thinking twice
TWL 01 zhongcha yellow mark. very relaxing and comforting tea.
2010 Liming Zao Chun tuo
Some of my favorite tuo chas, not at last because I bought a bunch of them from different sources with widely different storage: cryostatic Kunming, dry HK and some with traditional GD storage on the more humid side.
When I first got the latter ones they had a strong note of turpentine or window putty but over the months in a quarantine box those notes settled back and now, about two years later the main theme is some sort of fruity chinese medicine with a touch of camphor, nicely balanced and slightly sweet with sufficient backbone for further aging. I get more than 10-12 interesting steeps out of that material, distinctively more than out of any XG tuo with comparable storage, not bad at all.
Some of my favorite tuo chas, not at last because I bought a bunch of them from different sources with widely different storage: cryostatic Kunming, dry HK and some with traditional GD storage on the more humid side.
When I first got the latter ones they had a strong note of turpentine or window putty but over the months in a quarantine box those notes settled back and now, about two years later the main theme is some sort of fruity chinese medicine with a touch of camphor, nicely balanced and slightly sweet with sufficient backbone for further aging. I get more than 10-12 interesting steeps out of that material, distinctively more than out of any XG tuo with comparable storage, not bad at all.