This tea is beautiful – the dry leave are just amazing to look at – the wet leaves are just so pretty. I don’t think I should be drinking this one tonight. I was drinking another moonlight tea yesterday that was just spectacular. I think this is paling in the shadow of the other one rather than showing how good it really is. If I had tried this one first I would be raving about it, but IMHO it’s not as good as the other.
OMGsrsly recently wrote about this with words like savory and umami. While I’m not disagreeing with that – those aren’t the words I would choose. The problem is that I’m not quite sure what the right words are. Sheng, sweet, green. hay, lets start with those. Given a cup of this blind – there is no doubt it’s pu’erh – but it’s really mild and that mustiness goes away in later steeps. It is sweet, but later in the sip. It’s not astringent, or bitter, but these is a little sharpness to it.
I like it, I would happily drink more of it – but if I had to choose, the other one all the way.
Thank you so much OMGsrsly for sharing both these amazing teas with me. (I might need you to pick up more of these for me in the future….)
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No problem, really. I mean, I have a whole cake I can share. :D The amount of leaf I use ends up filling my gaiwan or pot after a couple steeps. Haha. That might be why I got different flavours.
I used the whole 5g sample of this one in my glass teapot, have been drinking it all night – getting sweeter as it goes – I’m going to put the leave in the fridge to cold steep…
I’m still drinking mine from last night. If I get up I make Mandala Silver Buds (in the kitchen) and if I’m sitting, I make this one (on my desk). Haha. They taste very different and I think I prefer silver buds out of these two, but the Moonlight over both.
This one just keeps getting better and sweeter… I like it more now than I did when I wrote that – it’s really getting grapey really fun.
Yeah, I’m noticing that as well. I wasn’t expecting as many steeps as I’ve gotten, and I’m quite happy.
Sounds like a good one.
I was actually given a cup of this blind and thought it was white tea! Not sure which steep number but it was so sweet.
I would honestly consider it more of a white than a sheng puerh. I’ve read that these teas are more for drinking than for aging.
Yep I agree – some companies call them pu’erh but I think of them as white tea (or aged white).
No problem, really. I mean, I have a whole cake I can share. :D The amount of leaf I use ends up filling my gaiwan or pot after a couple steeps. Haha. That might be why I got different flavours.
I used the whole 5g sample of this one in my glass teapot, have been drinking it all night – getting sweeter as it goes – I’m going to put the leave in the fridge to cold steep…
I’m still drinking mine from last night. If I get up I make Mandala Silver Buds (in the kitchen) and if I’m sitting, I make this one (on my desk). Haha. They taste very different and I think I prefer silver buds out of these two, but the Moonlight over both.
This one just keeps getting better and sweeter… I like it more now than I did when I wrote that – it’s really getting grapey really fun.
Yeah, I’m noticing that as well. I wasn’t expecting as many steeps as I’ve gotten, and I’m quite happy.
Sounds like a good one.
I was actually given a cup of this blind and thought it was white tea! Not sure which steep number but it was so sweet.
I would honestly consider it more of a white than a sheng puerh. I’ve read that these teas are more for drinking than for aging.
Yep I agree – some companies call them pu’erh but I think of them as white tea (or aged white).