2022 San He Lao Zhai
https://www.yunnancraft.com/en/sheng-pu ... -zhai-200g
Seems from this farm
https://www.pageoftea.com/yiwu-pu-erh-tea-farm
Yunnan Craft
Wow, looks like aet has disclosed in his blog information on the specific gardens where he sources tea:
https://www.pageoftea.com/category/tea-gardens
Nice to read while drinking the teas
https://www.pageoftea.com/category/tea-gardens
Nice to read while drinking the teas
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A white and a sheng from same material, same farmer same year - kuzhu shan
https://www.yunnancraft.com/en/sheng-pu ... -shan-200g
https://www.pageoftea.com/ku-zhu-shan
https://www.yunnancraft.com/en/sheng-pu ... -shan-200g
https://www.pageoftea.com/ku-zhu-shan
Lucky for me, for that is hands down the best oolong I have tasted! Sure, it's moderately expensive, but worth it. But he has other teas that are really good as well, at a fraction of the price you'd think something that good would cost. A case in point is this awesome white "daily drinker" below, which I might have gone a bit overboard on ordering ... 200 more pieces of. But I don't feel I'll regret it. Not by taste in any case.klepto wrote: ↑Sat Dec 04, 2021 1:52 pmAilao Shan Dongfang Meiren:
As I opened the bag, the peachy and floral notes were bursting out the bag. This is not the sickeningly sweet bug bitten to hell OB that I've had early in my tea drinking days. This is soft, sweet, with a nice melody of peach, nectarine and bright floral notes. The liquor was thick and quite a comforting tea. I regret not getting more
Not overboard at all considering it is pretty stable stuff that should benefit with ageIroh wrote: ↑Wed Feb 01, 2023 10:58 amLucky for me, for that is hands down the best oolong I have tasted! Sure, it's moderately expensive, but worth it. But he has other teas that are really good as well, at a fraction of the price you'd think something that good would cost. A case in point is this awesome white "daily drinker" below, which I might have gone a bit overboard on ordering ... 200 more pieces of. But I don't feel I'll regret it. Not by taste in any case.klepto wrote: ↑Sat Dec 04, 2021 1:52 pmAilao Shan Dongfang Meiren:
As I opened the bag, the peachy and floral notes were bursting out the bag. This is not the sickeningly sweet bug bitten to hell OB that I've had early in my tea drinking days. This is soft, sweet, with a nice melody of peach, nectarine and bright floral notes. The liquor was thick and quite a comforting tea. I regret not getting more
They recently got some boutique shou that you might like to try. Shou is not my thing- but I heard these are very good - small batch and the water used is carefully selected mountain spring water for the piling. - I would go for the loose versions
https://www.yunnancraft.com/en/shu-puer ... rbor-loose
https://www.yunnancraft.com/en/shu-puer ... vate-batch
I've never taken to shou, when I drink them it's mostly free samples (same for hongcha - must be something about the top end oxidation levels for me), but EoT has the odd liu bao I really enjoyed on some of these hot and humid summer days we're having here right now. I think it's a type of tea that can make one feel very good under the right circumstances, so I am increasingly inclined to actively sample nice and clean heichas now!
I just took note of your YC reports here, I'll go back through them to get an impression, thank you. I enjoy reading a bit about teas where possible whilst compiling a big enough basket of samples to justify the journey to my door step.
White squares definitely recommended. They're also my favourite for travelling, due to their convenient size. Overall, go with lots of samples on your first purchase from YC. Lots! Then buy bigger from the ones you like the very best. For my sake, I have primarily bought PuErh from YC, and since the "once I like best" turned out to be many, I do have rather a storage problem now.
But I also tried out some oolongs, which were a category I really hadn't intended on exploring too much, and YC simply has the best! Get yourself some samples of those, and decide for yourself. (I would recommend my absolute favourite, OL015, but it's sold out.)