2006 Gold Award Ripen Pu-erh Tea Cake Chunhai Tea Factory

This tea is from Michelle who got it from Rich and now I am drinking it here. 17 years old. Older than my oldest niece and cousin. Thank you both!

I prepared it western, 4 granms and roughly 4 minutes steep and it was one of the finest shu puerhs I prepared in this method. It was smooth, clean and dark as expected from shu; quite fermented and quite long mouthfeel. But it wasn’t so heavy for my stomach as many other shu puerhs making it acidic and unsettled.

Maybe it is not really complex in flavor, I will find out once I prepare remaining 7 grams with gongfu method, but I liked it. Also there was no foul odour or taste.

Just afterwards I have decided to descale our kettle. It is better than nothing, but if I used stronger method than citric acid in high concentration, I am afraid it would start to leak. But teas will be hopefully better now. I already thought that some teas are pretty same regardless their origin.

Puerh Tea TTB. This is a fairly tasty ripe tea with a moderate amount of fermentation flavor and very little bitterness. It was dark and rich in the early infusions, sweet in nature. I wonder if Puerhshop still sells this. I’d be tempted to pick one up. There wasn’t any qi to this tea but then again there generally isn’t any to ripe tea. This was a nice tasting tea. There was no fishyness to the fermentation taste, it was clean.

I brewed this twelve times in a 120ml gaiwan with 9.2g leaf and boiling water. I gave it a 10 second rinse. I steeped it for 5 sec, 5 sec, 7 sec, 10 sec, 15 sec, 20 sec, 25 sec, 30 sec, 45 sec, 1 min, 1.5 min, and 2 min. The tea wasn’t finished. If I wanted to I could get a few more steeps out of this.

This is a nice little bargain gem from Puershop. It is a very smooth ripe, no bitterness or fishiness. The flavor is clean and dark, though it is lacking a bit in depth and character. A very safe and tasty tea for a great price. You can’t go wrong with this one.