Shine Magical wrote: ↑Wed Jan 16, 2019 12:56 pmSeems like it would pair well with some pan fried pork dumplings
What Pu'er Are You Drinking
2015 Milk, Cream & Alcohol from white2tea. Hasn’t really changed much from when I first received it; still a very young tasting sheng. Slightly bitter with the semi sweet apricot notes I come to expect and a syrupy thickness in the soup I really enjoy. Of all the daily drinker type teas this is one of my favorites yet for some reason I never purchased a cake.
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CWarren - Talk about perfect timng...I was just looking at 2015 Milk, Cream & Alcohol on W2T's site! Thanks for the tasting notes..this sounds right up my alley 
I have not ordered from them before...is the shipping expensive to the US?
I have not ordered from them before...is the shipping expensive to the US?It’s a $9.99 flat fee so larger orders are always better. They occasionally have free shipping promotions too.
Looks like I am going to have to place an order. Your lovely notes and photos really helped inspire me.Glad I could be of some small help. Enjoy the tea. They have so many offerings to choose from including daily drinkers on up to some premium stuff. I’ve yet to find one disappointing.
2012 Autumn Naka from ChaWang Shop. This has aged well surprisingly given how tightly compressed it is. I love packing a lot of leaf when steeping this one and giving it longer infusion times to really accent the bamboo. There’s a sweet toffee like scent and flavor note mixed with the bamboo that hides just under the heavy bitterness. Seriously thick amber soup too which I’m a huge fan of. There is a nice medicinal nature to this both in thickness, flavor and the serious Qi that puts you into a tea dazed happy place. 
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Thank you. This particular tea isn’t available but there are plenty of places that sell a good Naka including white2tea. Yunnan Sourcing sells one similar to this packed in bamboo. Hope you enjoy the Milk, Cream & Alcohol.
You would have nothing much to lose if you are OK with throwing away tea you did not like or are able to swap it. However if you forced yourself to drink a whole cake of tea you did not like just because you blindly bought a cake of it, I would call that a losing situation. I did not like the MCA, but then I only sampled it once when I got it as a free sample, maybe I should try it again.
Revisiting this cake in a large qingshuini F1 persimmon pot (750ml?). The tea is much less pleasant brewed grandpa-style and I'm getting notes of camphor that I didn't detect when brewing the tea in a smaller pot with multiple infusions. I think this tea will be much better down the line, but the experience in a large pot is a shadow of what it was the last time I tried this tea!
A tea shop opened near me recently and I finally had a chance to pop in last night and decided pick up a few samples. Not an enormous selection of what I tend to drink, but for Vienna that there is a shop in the city center that even has Pu at all is a miracle since we mostly have tourist cafes with awful coffee and dry cake. most of their current stock comes from Yunnan Sourcing, who I don't order from so much anymore but its nice to get to still be able to try out some of their house shu offerings. They had a wider selection of sheng which I'm usually not so into, but also had a few different oolongs and have gong fu trays, so I'll certainly be back there.
Today trying out the 2008 Nan Jian 903 shu which I got a 25g bag of. Seems pretty balanced- nice and earthy without being overpowering, just enough sweetness, tiniest hint of camphor in the nose early on, some nice dark bread flavors, and no detectable storage notes. Middle brews gave a really deep but clean ruby color. Even as the color is getting lighter the flavor is still nice and present, and I lost count of infusions which is usually a good sign. Made this in my gaiwan though and I can tell it really needs a pot and thicker walls to keep the heat up to really get everything out of it- the chunks broke up quite easily out of the bag, but didn't quite seem to fully open up in the giawan.
Today trying out the 2008 Nan Jian 903 shu which I got a 25g bag of. Seems pretty balanced- nice and earthy without being overpowering, just enough sweetness, tiniest hint of camphor in the nose early on, some nice dark bread flavors, and no detectable storage notes. Middle brews gave a really deep but clean ruby color. Even as the color is getting lighter the flavor is still nice and present, and I lost count of infusions which is usually a good sign. Made this in my gaiwan though and I can tell it really needs a pot and thicker walls to keep the heat up to really get everything out of it- the chunks broke up quite easily out of the bag, but didn't quite seem to fully open up in the giawan.
Psyck - I have a lot of tea drinking friends....so if the cake doesn't work out...I can give it away or barter. The cake was so cheap that I did not have much to loose. I would never blindly drink through a disliked cake....I have limited tea consumption due to health reasons..so my tea drinking is precious to me
I would be happy to send you a sample (when I get the cake) if you want to re-try it.
I would be happy to send you a sample (when I get the cake) if you want to re-try it.
