Tea Knowledge & Friendship
Great! Please share here how you like the tea! I still haven't ordered any of their new tea from this year, as the long shipping time is wearing me out.
Cracked open my very first puerh cake: 2018 Eot Wuliang Wild, smelled the lid of my porcelain gaiwan, Wow crazy creamy fruit smell and the tea itself tasted like a creamsicle but after a few round that taste showed up at the front and sometimes at the back. It was coming and going in waves. I bought 2 cakes blind based on my favorite taste profile and damn if I didn't pick a winner. I sounded like Don from Mei Leaf there but it really did taste like that. @pantry Btw.. vintage cups scare me.. I'd end up bleaching the hell out of them before use
I soaped and boiled themklepto wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 4:19 pmCracked open my very first puerh cake: 2018 Eot Wuliang Wild, smelled the lid of my porcelain gaiwan, Wow crazy creamy fruit smell and the tea itself tasted like a creamsicle but after a few round that taste showed up at the front and sometimes at the back. It was coming and going in waves. I bought 2 cakes blind based on my favorite taste profile and damn if I didn't pick a winner. I sounded like Don from Mei Leaf there but it really did taste like that. pantry Btw.. vintage cups scare me.. I'd end up bleaching the hell out of them before use
...unfortunately bought quite a few. I’m hoping that all organic matters are long dead.Enjoy your Pu’er journey!pantry wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 6:31 pmI soaped and boiled themklepto wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 4:19 pmCracked open my very first puerh cake: 2018 Eot Wuliang Wild, smelled the lid of my porcelain gaiwan, Wow crazy creamy fruit smell and the tea itself tasted like a creamsicle but after a few round that taste showed up at the front and sometimes at the back. It was coming and going in waves. I bought 2 cakes blind based on my favorite taste profile and damn if I didn't pick a winner. I sounded like Don from Mei Leaf there but it really did taste like that. pantry Btw.. vintage cups scare me.. I'd end up bleaching the hell out of them before use
Congrats on your first cake! Excited for you. I’m glad you gave puerh another chance and got into it
@pantry
There's hope! Mine was shipped mid March. I have more packages, some shipped before these cups, that are still in Shanghai!DailyTX wrote: ↑Thu Jul 02, 2020 12:31 ampantry
That’s very hopeful, I am still waiting for my vintage cups ordered towards the end of March. And the package was reshipped in early April for some reason. If shipping was faster, I think I would order more stuff from them
. Thanks to retail therapy, I ordered more than what I needed 
@pantrypantry wrote: ↑Thu Jul 02, 2020 1:01 amThere's hope! Mine was shipped mid March. I have more packages, some shipped before these cups, that are still in Shanghai!
Btw, I'm happy to sell off some of these vintage cups
This Ban Zhange pu'er is fine but I definitely prefer their top of the range although these are quite expensive. I do have their LBZ for 2010 and it is really out of this world:
Thanks for the input Rui. I have a cake of the 2012 Gold but haven't cracked into it yet (also acquired for far less).Rui wrote: ↑Thu Jul 02, 2020 4:23 am
This Ban Zhange pu'er is fine but I definitely prefer their top of the range although these are quite expensive. I do have their LBZ for 2010 and it is really out of this world:
https://kingteamall.com/collections/201 ... -sheng-cha
Although I paid less then one third of the current price.
Yeah, that's Xiaguan alright... Funny that it's the same product! I was able to get mine quite a bit cheaper back when I bought it and probably won't be picking up any more (although Wistaria's price is really fair considering the age!), but thanks for sharing the infovuanguyen wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 12:12 amBalthazar I think the sample I got from Wistaria is the same as your tea...the Tibetian flame. I received a reply email from Wistaria tea house saying that the tea was made by a company "下關茶廠 ,Yun-nan Province, China". They also attached the following 3 pictures. They are selling it for 1500 NTD each if you want to buy. It looks a little bit new for a tea made in 2000 though
I had a chance to sample the tea a third time. It tasted to me now like a wild tea... like the one offered by Denong tea house (https://www.denongtea.com/collections/d ... ripe-puerh).
