2003 Wuliang Qiao Mu Shou Puerh Brick Duo

This tea is excellent. I bought it during Tea trekker’s Black Friday sale and am just getting around to trying it. There is very little fermentation flavor to it, maybe a little in the first steep and that’s about it. It had clearly been wet stored at some point because there was the faint taste of wet wood in the first two steeps. It had obviously cleared of it’s storage taste while stored by Tea Trekker. It was sweet with virtually no bitterness from the beginning. It was dark and rich in the early infusions. It turned into a fruity sweetness as the tea got lighter in color. Unfortunately Tea Trekker has run out of this. It was priced right at $55 for a pair of 250g bricks. The tea itself was fairly large leafed. I am not sure if Wuliang is the region, the name of the tea factory, or just what Tea Trekker called it. It hard to pin down the exact nature of the sweet taste but it is good.

I steeped this ten times in a 120ml gaiwan with 10.3g 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, 30 sec, 45 sec, and 1 min. Judging by the color of the brew in the tenth steep I’d say I could get another three or four steeps out of this at least but ten cups is a lot of tea.