Collecting "falling out of love with pu'er" stories from Blogspot
In the end, everyone has her/his own preferences 
i've been enjoying puer for ~13 years and I still find it (together with yancha) the most interesting type of tea.
The advice to be wary of hype is a good one, one needs to be honest with oneself and decide if they actually like the tea or if they're in it beacause of FOMO and discussion on social media.
i've been enjoying puer for ~13 years and I still find it (together with yancha) the most interesting type of tea.The advice to be wary of hype is a good one, one needs to be honest with oneself and decide if they actually like the tea or if they're in it beacause of FOMO and discussion on social media.
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Mei leaf? How bad can his stuff be? Wish someone could just spell it out.TeaTotaling wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 5:07 pmI think klepto might have only got his LQ/RoC pot from TWL. Sounds like his Puerh may have come from D-Boy Donny Mei's magical Gushu tree, which could explain the circumstances.
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I don't think his stuff is terrible. I thought it was better than the "top shelf" YS Shengs I've had. The price is certainly on the high end, which is to be expected, so one might get a better bang for their buck elsewhere. Now maybe @klepto was expecting his Puerh to send him on a psychedelic trip, like Don tends to promote, but instead was left with a queasy stomach. Which could be why he fell out of love with Puerh. It seems DJ Don triggers people, and they take it out shaming his tea, I dunno.LeoFox wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 5:10 pmMei leaf? How bad can his stuff be? Wish someone could just spell it out.TeaTotaling wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 5:07 pmI think klepto might have only got his LQ/RoC pot from TWL. Sounds like his Puerh may have come from D-Boy Donny Mei's magical Gushu tree, which could explain the circumstances.
On this somewhat tired subject of how good or bad Mei Leaf's teas are, I tried about a half dozen versions some years back, from not long after the brand shift from China Life to Mei Leaf, and some before that. It's possible his teas are much different since then, and much better. But then they were all ok, just not ok in relation to the selling price or the descriptions.
I'd be a little skeptical in accepting an opinion that his teas are better than the best sold by Yunnan Sourcing. To start, Yunnan Sourcing sells a lot of tea. If someone tried a dozen or more of their higher end in-house versions that would be a pretty good sample, but for trying half that luck of the draw and preference for individual aspects really would skew results.
Then from there Yunnan Sourcing promotes a lot of what they sell for more (the $80-100 cakes, versus Impression versions) as arbor or more naturally grown, single source tea, and Mei Leaf is probably selling more blends. It wouldn't work to compare two different kinds of tea like that. There are good reasons for why people are preferring more narrow origin sourced sheng these days, but there are also limitations in that approach. Just as with Lipton, or any other blend, mixing inputs lets you offset flaws and maximize final overall balance. The same general quality level of tea material input can provide better results when blended. Personal preference could easily favor or tend to not regard a more limited aspect range as preferable, the narrow-source theme.
In general whenever people pass on very sweeping, conclusive, objectively framed conclusions about most tea themes (all of what a vendor sells, all of what a source area produces, etc.) I would be wary of accepting that as well-grounded input. Including these comments, of course.
Patterns definitely come up but some people embracing narratives too much tends to skew what they experience. I'm probably somewhat biased against Mei Leaf due to the videos, and clearly wrong information in product descriptions (the "everything is gushu" and drug-like effect themes), beyond having so-so prior experience with those teas.
I'd be a little skeptical in accepting an opinion that his teas are better than the best sold by Yunnan Sourcing. To start, Yunnan Sourcing sells a lot of tea. If someone tried a dozen or more of their higher end in-house versions that would be a pretty good sample, but for trying half that luck of the draw and preference for individual aspects really would skew results.
Then from there Yunnan Sourcing promotes a lot of what they sell for more (the $80-100 cakes, versus Impression versions) as arbor or more naturally grown, single source tea, and Mei Leaf is probably selling more blends. It wouldn't work to compare two different kinds of tea like that. There are good reasons for why people are preferring more narrow origin sourced sheng these days, but there are also limitations in that approach. Just as with Lipton, or any other blend, mixing inputs lets you offset flaws and maximize final overall balance. The same general quality level of tea material input can provide better results when blended. Personal preference could easily favor or tend to not regard a more limited aspect range as preferable, the narrow-source theme.
In general whenever people pass on very sweeping, conclusive, objectively framed conclusions about most tea themes (all of what a vendor sells, all of what a source area produces, etc.) I would be wary of accepting that as well-grounded input. Including these comments, of course.
Patterns definitely come up but some people embracing narratives too much tends to skew what they experience. I'm probably somewhat biased against Mei Leaf due to the videos, and clearly wrong information in product descriptions (the "everything is gushu" and drug-like effect themes), beyond having so-so prior experience with those teas.