2015 Little Walk

Even though I own this, I tried a sample from the Puerh TTB+ box to see if an older/different sample was any more mellow. I also switched up my brewing parameters from last time and used lower temperature water with shorter steeps.

Still a lot of bitterness here. And since I’ve tried nice shengs from white2tea this is just kinda meh. I think I’m actually going to toss the remainder of my stash in the “Here’s Hoping” box (yes I currently have two tea boxes).

oh yes this can be drunk daily. this is a good value sheng. at first smell of the dry leaf i wasnt sure if id like it.. but the brew is sweet in that raw type of way, slightly grassy with the pure tour de force of sheng which hangs in the mouth after drinking. i see a possible cake in my future. i can be picky with sheng, and although its not like the 2015 bosch i had yesterday, it still hits the spot. i want another pot.

-nycoma

Shengy and green tasting. Tolerable when brewed light enough. I can see this being a great tea for people who enjoy sheng.

I’ve wanted to try this since I’m developing a fondness for small cakes and can’t help but want to acquire more. Can’t seem to find my tasting notes though, but from what I remember it started out strong with apricot notes. The tea was thick and full bodied, but I never got any bitterness out of this. Easy drinking but full flavored, resteeped a long time. No smoke.

From the Beginner’s Pu’erh TTB.

Had a gongfu session, brewed in ceramic gaiwan (120ml, but I tried to eye the water level). One 5 second rinse. 3 min rest. Another 5 sec rinse (was the first steeping but the soup ended up tasting too light). Steeping times: 15, 15, 18, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 75, 70; 2 min, 2.5, 4, 6, 10.

The dry leaf smells firstly of tobacco, then of apricot. I let the leaf sit in the heated bowl for a moment and it brought out the apricot note. Wet leaf also smells of apricot. Very fruity aroma, even the soup aroma is strong.

The soup is pale yellow and full-bodied. Overall, this sheng is sweet and bitter simultaneously. It never shakes of the bitterness, which is always underneath, but the apricot sweetness increases in the beginning of the session and levels off to a consistency in the middle. The texture starts to show at itself early on – thick and smooth, a little oily? – and remains so. Menthol makes an appearance at infusion 5 and stays until the end. Sometimes it overpowers the apricot, sometimes it sticks to the roof the the mouth or back of the throat. The apricot/menthol aftertaste is long-lasting.

As for qi: Starting with infusion 3, the soup feels like it’s charged with energy. Like it’s almost buzzing. At the penultimate infusion, the energy mellows. I drank the first 9 cups on an empty stomach (I was waiting for brunch to be prepared). My digestive system felt fine. I did feel tea tipsy!

I do agree a cake or tong would be worth every penny.

Clear pale amber brew. Fruity, some light bitterness. Very nice; easy to drink.

Gift from teafriend – thank you!

Using this tea to test my pumidor-to-be mini fridge, making sure it’s not imparting any plasticy smells or aromas to my tea. It’s been in there around three days now, and I took it out and broke off my usual ~7g for 100mL gaiwan. Pleased to say I got no off flavors or anything with this session :)

This tea is so sweet – really no bitterness, with some nice thick liquid. Not a complex one, but simply delicious. Impressed by the leaf quality on even one of W2T’s cheapest offerings. Good stuff.

Well, where to start with this one? I brewed up 5 grams in a 100ml gaiwan at 210/off boil. I gave two quick rinses. This tea was pretty compressed and took a few steeps to open up. It was so light in the beginning that there was nothing to even note. About steep 3 or 4 it started to give a little bit. The wet leaf smelled very floral and fruity with some slight tangy sourness in there. The material looks ok but nothing to write home about as it was a bit chopped looking to me bearing in mind this was a sample from W2T and I didnt personally break it off the cake. I feel that 5 grams was definitely not enough for 100ml, at least for me. It was so light that I wasn’t really experiencing the full offering of these leaves. For me this tea was VERY floral. I didn’t get any smokiness at all and the bitterness wasn’t too bad for a young sheng. The bitterness made its appearance around steep 4 and did stay but I was pushing the tea a bit because of how light it was. That is why I think I need to up the leaf to water ratio a bit. Maybe 7-8 grams to 100ml. I don’t think this first review is going to reflect my true opinion of this tea as I need to revisit it with more leaf ammo for the gaiwan. I didn’t really get any fruitiness but very floral throughout. I gave up around steep 10 or so. The smell is great and the taste in smooth and light. I think this one is going to be very good the next time I brew with more leaf. I am hoping to get some of those fruity flavors that are noticeable on the nose of the wet leaf. Definitely will be a good tea with some more age. I think a purchase of the full cake wouldn’t be a bad investment especially at the price point its at.

Has anyone else had this lately? I acquired 20 grams of this in a swap (thanks curlygc!), and this is tasting a lot different than when I last had it even 3-4 months ago. I am using more leaf and finally got a gaiwan, which I’m using for this session.

It tastes much more medicinal, bitter, mentholy, and green versus the light hay taste. Can sheng change that much in a few months? I’m very much a beginner when it comes to drinking pu-erh.

Got out ten grams to start with. Steeping in the gaiwan. Gave it a rinse to start with.The first brew, at 5 secs, brewed a light yellow color with a grass note.The next brew the tea was stronger with a dying grass note to it used a ten second brew. Next steep it was fifteen second brew and the tea was darker and stronger with a hay flavor that you can taste at the tip of your tongue and the middle of your tongue.