2018 Cha Nong Hao "Meng Song Village" White Tea Cake from Yunnan Sourcing

2018 Cha Nong Hao "Meng Song Village" White Tea Cake

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White Tea
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Alcohol, Apricot, Autumn Leaf Pile, Biting, Caramel, Carrot, Celery, Cocoa, Earth, Green Beans, Plum, Rum, Sweet, Tangy, Vegetables, Bitter, Coffee, Creamy, Mineral, Plants, Raspberry, Smooth, Sugarcane, Wood, Camphor, Menthol, Nuts, Peat
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195 °F / 90 °C 0 min, 15 sec 6 g 4 oz / 110 ml

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  • “Gongfu Sipdown (1469)! Started my morning today with a simple tea pairing of this white tea and a sweet and crumbly peach infused Wensleydale cheese – one of my favourite nibbling cheeses. Bonus...” Read full tasting note
  • “I have been coming back to and drinking this particular white tea a lot over the last year, more than I would have expected when tasting it initially. It has a distinct character that stuck with me...” Read full tasting note
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Entirely spring 2018 harvested tea from pure assamica bushes growing in Meng Song village. Meng Song village is northwest from the Nan Nuo mountains and is a very famous tea producing area in Menghai County of Xishuangbanna.

This is a fruity and sweet (like sugarcane juice) white tea that will improve wonderfully with age. Thick and viscous, it will go many steeps!

Cha Nong Hao Brand (lit. Tea Farmer Brand 茶农号) is a small project of Ms. Guo, a Yunnan local tea aficionado. She’s been involved in the Pu-erh tea world for many years but is finally doing her own small batch pressings of ripe and raw pu-erh teas that she has sourced through her many travels in the tea mountains of Yunnan!

April 2018 Harvest (pressed in December 2018)

250 Grams per cake (7 cakes per bamboo leaf tong)

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Gongfu Sipdown (1469)!

Started my morning today with a simple tea pairing of this white tea and a sweet and crumbly peach infused Wensleydale cheese – one of my favourite nibbling cheeses. Bonus points, because this session is also a sipdown – I’m on a solid roll this weekend!

The tea is soft & sweet and already has a very nice natural delicate white peach and nectarine taste to it, supported by notes of wildflowers, fresh timothy hay, and just a little bit of Whipped honey. I really like this pairing because Wendsleydale is a bit of a softer flavour already so it doesn’t drown out the tea – the shared peach note is just a natural compliment and I just love that flavour becoming exaggerated and more jammy, but with the silkier honey notes of the tea & creaminess of the cheese also creating this ‘peaches & cream’ adjacent flavour as well.

No complaints here; this is just gentle and fun! Thanks Togo for the share!

Photos: https://www.instagram.com/p/CTKdQdPA0SP/

Song Pairing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxp3uOfWHGM&ab_channel=honeywhip
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I have been coming back to and drinking this particular white tea a lot over the last year, more than I would have expected when tasting it initially. It has a distinct character that stuck with me and which I craved on multiple occasions. I seem to enjoy its aroma more as well. It is somewhat more sweet and reminiscent of crème brûlée, coffee, and black raspberries on top of the notes I mentioned previously. The plum aroma is also fairly prominent.

The overall experience is smoother and less astringent than what I can remember from a year ago, but the taste profile is similar. It just has a bit more sweetness and woody notes. The texture is also more creamy and there is an expansive, crisp aftertaste with a lingering sugarcane flavour.

On a more general note, I am starting to realize that I really like teas from the Meng Song area. Of course, people talk a lot about Naka, and albeit expensive, Naka is great. However, it seems to me that in the surrounding areas, one can find a lot of nicely balanced and pungent tea for a fraction of the price.

Flavors: Apricot, Autumn Leaf Pile, Bitter, Caramel, Carrot, Celery, Coffee, Creamy, Mineral, Plants, Plum, Raspberry, Rum, Smooth, Sugarcane, Vegetables, Wood

Preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 0 min, 15 sec 6 g 4 OZ / 110 ML
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mrmopar
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MengSong has some fine teas.

derk
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Either of you tried anything from Hua Zhu Liang Zi near Mengsong? Read good things somewhere on teh webs. I do have a sample but haven’t tried it yet.

Togo
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The only one I’ve had is EoT’s Baotang (thanks to you derk!), which is located on the slopes of Hua Zhu Liang Zi if I am not mistaken. And I absolutely loved that one, a shame the tea is sold out now.

mrmopar
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Baotang is the one I tried and the 2012 Menghai Dayi MengSong tuo. I liked both of those quite a bit. Tea Urchin had a good Baotang as well. @Derk drink it and let us know how it is.

Martin Bednář
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I consider lucky seeing the diffrence between shu and sheng. The difference between hills still needs lots of trying, writing down notes, remembering, drinking, tossing, and many other verbs.

And this is even more complicated, it’s compressed white tea. Oh well…

derk
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Ah, that’s right, the Baotang is Mengsong/Hua Zhu Liang Zi! Once I’m done sampling some Dayi sheng, I’ll try to move to the 5 or 6 Mengsong teas I have, including the red tea I picked up from Liquid Proust.

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