2011 Yunnan Menghai Dayi Smooth as Jade Ripe Puer Tea

This is a very tasty ripe puerh with very little fermentation flavor. There was very little bitterness to this tea, it was very smooth. There were a variety of sweet notes that I totally failed to pin down by specifics. There were also some barely perceptible sour notes in a couple of the steeps. These did not persist. Overall this was a very good ripe puerh. It developed a fruity flavor in the end. Not sure if I would say there were any chocolate notes but then again I wasn’t really paying attention. I just enjoyed this tea. It is after all a Dayi. They have a reputation for good ripe tea. This one seemed genuine in every way.

I steeped this eight times in a 180ml teapot with 10g leaf and boiling water. I gave it a 10 second rinse and a 10 minute rest. I steeped it for 5 sec, 5 sec, 7 sec, 10 sec, 15 sec, 20 sec, 25 sec, and 30 sec. The leaves were far from finished. I’m sure I could have gotten four or five more good steeps out of the tea but I was at my caffeine limit.