Fengqing Ancient Tree Raw Pu-erh Cake 2014
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Commercial Description
This is a unique raw pu-erh cake. The fresh leaves are from Fengqing large leaf species in Yunnan. Mengyou raw pu-erh has powerful flavor and soft aftertaste. When sipping it, the fragrance and taste linger on your tongue, bringing the sweetness to your throat...
Ratings & Reviews
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92 Aroma: 9/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 4/5Alex Zorach (1448 reviews) on Aug. 27th, 2014
Another superb tea! And how completely different this tea is from last year's batch! Multifaceted, complex, surprisingly floral in aroma, with a very pleasing flavor, able to be infused many times.
The dry leaf has an explosion of aroma, sweet, springy, suggestive of a tippy, spring harvest green tea, but followed by a more typical aroma of unaged, raw Pu-erh.
Upon brewing though, the tea changes character entirely. The first thing I notice is a sort of unpleasant smell, it honestly smells a little bit like a dirty subway stairwell. Thankfully, this smell dissipates.
Upon sipping I get exquisite floral notes. Wow! Where did those come from? I love the experience of drinking it as the floral and vegetal tones evolve. A suggestion of the aromatic notes I remember from last year's batch: tobacco, hops, and fruit, but different overall. The flavor is exceptionally smooth and mild, when brewed as I like, but there's a rich body.
I was able to brew 3 cups easily, using a first steeping of 3 minutes, which was the low end of TeaVivre's recommendations. Out of curiosity, I tried steeping 10 minutes and, even with a small amount of leaf, that created a cup that was WAAAY too strong for me. It also caused the flavor to give way and I wasn't able to brew more than 2 cups that way. Using gentle infusions I got 4 cups with Western brewing, and possibly could have gotten more. The leaf goes very far.
I enjoyed this cake a lot. Maybe not quite as much as last year's, but it's significantly cheaper, $48 compared to $62. Either way, both cakes were outstanding.
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