What Pu'er Are You Drinking

[Victoria]

Here are some common terms for puerh.
Gu Shu ( ancient tree ) , Dan Zhu ( single tree ), Lao Qiao Mu ( old arbor ), Lao Shu ( old tree ) , Da Shu ( big tree ), Qiao Mu ( arbor tree ) , Mu Shu ( mother tree ) , Xiao Shu ( small tree ) , Xiao Qiao Mu ( small arbor ) , Tai Di Cha ( bush / tableland tea )

Nice list, thanks

[debunix]

2007 Mengku organic sheng puerh, a beeng I bought from Wing Hop Fung in 2016. I didn't know much about it, but just now I found this reference on Steepster to the same tea which was also previously offered on Yunnan Sourcing:

From Yunnan Sourcing

Three years in the making, Mengku Shuangjiang tea factory has finally released this pure Ancient Tree cake that is Certified Organic by the Organic Tea Research and Development Center! The perfect raw material from the highest tea mountain in Yunnan has been used to compose this fine cake. Limited to just 10,000 cakes (5000 kilograms).
Product Name: Mengku Organic Pu-erh Cake
Harvest time: Spring 2007
Net Weight: 500 grams
Ingredients: Certified Organic Wild ancient tea
Production Quantity: 10000 cakes
Produced by Mengku Rongshi Tea Factory
Organic Certification: OTRDC-609

It's been delicious, warm and spicy and herbaceous, notes of anise and savory and a hint of bitterness behind the sweet earthiness. Quite nice.

[mrmopu]

Here are some common terms for puerh.
Gu Shu ( ancient tree ) , Dan Zhu ( single tree ), Lao Qiao Mu ( old arbor ), Lao Shu ( old tree ) , Da Shu ( big tree ), Qiao Mu ( arbor tree ) , Mu Shu ( mother tree ) , Xiao Shu ( small tree ) , Xiao Qiao Mu ( small arbor ) , Tai Di Cha ( bush / tableland tea )

Nice list, thanks

Thanks Victoria. I actually pulled from a website but the terms are spot on.

[Janice]

There was a brief discussion about tea clubs recently. On a whim I joined one of the clubs mentioned, the one from the Essence of Tea. I received my first package last week - a tea cake and a bag of 1990s aged liu bao. The tea cake is a young yellow leaf sheng from the Wuliang mountains. The cover letter describes it as pure with pleasant fruit and honey tones. I find that’s a good description but add that I can drink it late in the day or early evening without affecting my sleep.

Here’s a photo. As a newbie I’m not familiar with puerh with such large leaves.

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[Rui]

2013 Xiaguan Love Forever from Teas We Like. Now that is a yummy sheng. At US$120 per tea cake I believe it is also a great value for what it is

[gregcss]

2013 Xiaguan Love Forever from Teas We Like. Now that is a yummy sheng. At US$120 per tea cake I believe it is also a great value for what it is

I like that one too. It has some strength without being bitter. Though I sampled my cake twice or so then put away in a pumidor for a bit. I'll come back to it in the spring or so.

[mrmopu]

2013 Xiaguan Love Forever from Teas We Like. Now that is a yummy sheng. At US$120 per tea cake I believe it is also a great value for what it is

I like that one too. It has some strength without being bitter. Though I sampled my cake twice or so then put away in a pumidor for a bit. I'll come back to it in the spring or so.

Another Virginia user yes! Maybe there is hope someone will end up near me.

[gregcss]

2013 Xiaguan Love Forever from Teas We Like. Now that is a yummy sheng. At US$120 per tea cake I believe it is also a great value for what it is

I like that one too. It has some strength without being bitter. Though I sampled my cake twice or so then put away in a pumidor for a bit. I'll come back to it in the spring or so.

Another Virginia user yes! Maybe there is hope someone will end up near me.

Hi there. Both in VA yet so far away...looks like Maryland, North Carolina, Delaware, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York are less distance from me in northern VA than to you in Blacksburg.

[mrmopu]

I like that one too. It has some strength without being bitter. Though I sampled my cake twice or so then put away in a pumidor for a bit. I'll come back to it in the spring or so.

Another Virginia user yes! Maybe there is hope someone will end up near me.

Hi there. Both in VA yet so far away...looks like Maryland, North Carolina, Delaware, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York are less distance from me in northern VA than to you in Blacksburg.

I keep hoping....

[lUKAV28]

Farmer Leaf’s spring 2019 jingmai miyun. Light but tasty young tree sheng pu erh.

[Ken]

Farmer Leaf’s spring 2019 jingmai miyun. Light but tasty young tree sheng pu erh.

I posted some of my impressions on the 2016 version on teachat back then. I still haven't had any other sheng that went through such drastic changes in just a couple months, simply amazing.

Sipping some 2018 YS Ku Zhu Shan here ... thick with decent mouthfeel and loong, sweet aftertaste. The flavours remind me a lot of the 2015 and 2016 Chawang Mengsong with a dominant note of turkish honey aka lokum and all the sweetness you could ask for but compared to the Chawangpu which literally knocked me out a couple times the YS doesn't effect me too much - if at all.

PS: haven't posted anything in a good while but it's nice to see some of the old teachat fellas alive and sipping here. Cheers!

[lUKAV28]

Farmer Leaf’s spring 2019 jingmai miyun. Light but tasty young tree sheng pu erh.

I posted some of my impressions on the 2016 version on teachat back then. I still haven't had any other sheng that went through such drastic changes in just a couple months, simply amazing.

Yeah, I went with the small cake just to try some of his teas and this is the one I am planning to restock. Nice daily drinker and reasonably priced. I really like his 2019 sheng too, very clean, sun dried autumn black tea not so much.

[Rui]

Today was the turn of Teas We Like 2003 Hong Kong Henry “Conscientious Prescription” 7542. Another well stored sheng which makes me want to talk to my friend to share the cost of another cake.

[polezaivsani]

Have had a blast with a little piece of sweet sheng cake called Huazhu danzhu from last year's sping harvest. Got it blindly when getting some teaware from pu-erh.sk. And it was it again picked by chance to try out how the cup would fare. I got a bit suspicious how the fragrance from the bag resembled fresh mint, but the cup had to be initiated anyway. So i went on, just to be completely startled when i opened the pot after the first wash - that is the most sweet aroma i've ever tried to date (not that means much ).

It's not the kind of mellow lingering sweet in the back of your mouth i could've expected from something coming from Yiwu, but an intense, captivating sweetness, maybe ripe plums or some sweet berries grabbing my nostrils with the first breath. Drinking the soup it turns into thick fruity (mango maybe, or something else exotic), distinct and unrelenting. So much so that (at least this session) it was still potent and ready for more steeps by the time i would've guessed it to dwindle away.

Totally unexpected experience, start to finish. Couldn't thought for a better tea time. Question to you, though - does this sound like anything familiar to you? Let me know, as i won't mind to get more of it Chin, chin!

[Rui]

Today I am sipping a yummy sheng from White2Tea Little Ducks. These tiny 8 gram cakes fit exactly my needs of tea daily consumption at work where I have no facilities to steep Gong Fu style.

The seller's desciption of this tea says it all: "The tea is youthful and strong. When brewed lightly it is floral and sweet, when brewed with a heavy hand it is syrupy sweet and has a bite."