Gallery:
Pictures including "almost" everything ( har to fit everything ) on my last Tea-Encounter order
16X ZSL Autumn Yibang Ma Li Shu 8X ZSL Autumn Ding Jia Zhai 8X ZSL Autumn Man Zhuan 18X ZSL Autumn Mang Zhi 12X ZSL Autumn Yibang Mi Bu
9 X 2019 Tea Encounter Gua Feng Zhai - 357g
1 x 2019 Tea Encounter Laos Gushu 3 X Tea Encounter 2020 Bang Dong - 250g
5 X 2008 Fangmingyuan Bama - 400g 6 X 2008 Fangmingyuan Nannuo - 357g
1 X 2013 Fangmingyuan Nannuo - 357g 1 X 2010 Fangmingyuan 0812 - 5 years anniversary - 500g
1 X 2003 Yuanjiutang Ban Zhang - 350g 1 X ZSL 2017 Mang Zhi - 400g 1 X ZSL 2017 Zheng Jia Liang Zi - 400g 1 X ZSL 2019 Wa Long - 400g 1 X ZSL 2018 Mang Zhi - 400g 1 X ZSL 2017 Zhang Jia Wan - 400g
1 X 2020 Tongqinghe Yiwu White Tea Cake - 200g ( new & experimental? free cake, not yet for sale !! , thank you Tiago !!! i know i've been pushing for some white tea on T-E, a dream come true )
1 X 2020 Tongqinghe ( stong sha qing, one to drink now, same as 2020 Bang Dong ) - 357g ( another experimental? cake, not yet for sale... really intrigued and probably aimed to fix my aversion to young sheng, nice one Tiago
)1 X Sample: ZSL 2018 Yi Shan Mo 1 X Sample: 2019 Chawangshu Little Tree
Total: 96 cakes + 2 samples.
It's becoming an addiction, started really small with "just" a mere 7 cakes order and once i tasted 'em... my second order was already pretty large ( can't remember... around 40 cakes, maybe a few more ) and then time passed, kept tasting more & more... and here we are... my third order... the largest one.
That 2008 Bama cake is tricky, smooth first impression then i grows on you session after session, surrounding you until you surrender... until you give up and only want more.
Already had 9 cakes of that 2013 Fangmingyuan Nannuo... but it's so good it felt like a crime not grabbing at least another one, same for that 0812 although for different reasons ( good tea, slightly above your average daily drinker, always worth having some stored ).
Those ZSL autumn productions are just a steal !!
The "normal" Gua Feng Zhai version is another amazing quality/price cake, genuine GFZ material at this price & quality is hard to come by... not sure if any other western-facing vendor offers anything similar. The 2020 version uses exactly the same maocha as the 2019 cakes since 2020 maocha wasn't exactly impressive.
It's going to take a good while to store all this considering i barely had space before ... once i'm back home will be playing TeaTris with puerh cakes ( also got a serious "we need to talk" message along these pictures so guessing i won't have a heartwarming welcome in the end ) .
