Raw puerh dragon ball
Raw puerh in a crackleware bowl
Spent raw puerh
Great Blue Heron is pine smoked raw puerh, (semi-aged maocha blend). Interestingly, I get more character of the base tea and less pure smoke from the smoked raw puerh than I did from Camphire (ripe puerh) yesterday.
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Raw puerh dragon ball
Dragon ball wrapper
Raw puerh in a crackleware bowl
Spent raw puerh leaves
2020 "Icelandic Dragon Ball (800 Single Trees)" is another random dragon ball, likely from liquid proust. This is some pretty serious raw puerh from a famous area (but a lot of broken pieces in the dragon ball).
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Random dragon ball
Dragon ball wrapper
Tea in a crackleware bowl
Spent tea leaves
Random dragon ball, (probably) via Liquid Proust. Translation of Chinese characters on wrapper by Google. "2020, Sea Lotus Pond (800 Single Trees), Xishuangbanna, Yunnan)". Mellow, slightly astringent character. Light bitterness.
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Raw Puerh in a ruyao gaiwan
Tea number 9 in this Pu-Erh.SK raw puerh tasting flight is a 2011 "Big Green Tree". The proprietor has done some research and found this particular batch of "BGT" was a special commission of particularly high quality material.
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Raw puerh in a ruyao gaiwan
Tea Number 8 from the recent Pu-Erh.SK raw puerh educational sample set was Xiashu Huazhu 2015. Another compelling mid-age, dry storage, soft power raw puerh.
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Raw puerh in a ruyao gaiwan
Tea number seven in this educational puerh tasting from Pu-Erh.SK was Yiwu Gaoshan 2015. Some fine hot leaf water, well on its way to being exceptional hot leaf water. If you don't like this, you probably don't like raw puerh.
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Raw puerh in a crackleware bowl
Tea No 6 from the Pu-Erh.SK educational tasting flight is Pang San Zhou 2020, another Thailand raw puerh tea, and a rather nice one at that. Slight pleasant bitterness, calming energy.
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Raw puerh in a ruyao gaiwan
Tea no 5 from a recent Pu-Erh.SK educational tasting flight was a Gedeng 2024 autumn raw puerh. Soft power.
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Tea in a crackleware bowl
Tea number 4 from the Pu-Erh.SK raw puerh tasting flight is one of their Thailand raw puerhs, Grand Reserva 2022. Another sample that must have come from a particularly compressed part of the cake, rock hard.
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Raw Puerh in a crackleware bowl
Raw puerh No 3 from a recent Pu-Rth.SK sample set is "Yiwu Zhang Jia Wang 2024 autumn". One of my favorite teas in the batch!
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Raw puerh in a crackleware bowl
Turns out tea number one from this pu-erh.sk tasting flight is a "Mansong 2024 autumn" raw puerh. Umami, sea breeze, spring grove.
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Dry raw puerh
Raw puerh in a crackleware bowl
Dog at the beach
Raw puerh in a ruyao gaiwan
Resetting with some fresh raw puerh before restarting the pu-erh.sk tasting flight with the names and origins of the teas. 2025 Yiwu Zhang Jia Wang from Pu-Erh.sk.
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Dry raw puerh
Raw puerh tea in a crackleware bowl
Let her lie
Raw puerh in a ruyao gaiwan
Number 7 in this Pu-Erh.SK sample flight is a very nice raw puerh with a little apparent age. A bit more assertive than some of the other teas in the set. A rounded filling flavor, perfume/incense character, and lengthy after impressions.
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Starting to think that the structure of this Pu-Erh.SK tasting might be that the even numbered teas are more "industrial" and the odd numbered teas are smaller batch.
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Dry puerh tea
Tea in a ruyao gaiwan
Tea in a crackleware bowl
Tea No 3 from a recent Pu-Erh.SK raw puerh tasting flight. Mellow flavor, no off storage taste, pleasant returning sweetness. Look forward to finding out what this one is, very nice!
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Dry raw puerh leaves
Raw Puerh in a bowl
Spent raw puerh leaves
Dogs and cats napping together, oh my!
Very loosely compressed, you can tease it apart without a pick. Beautiful leaves. Complex flavor, pleasant returning sweetness, long lingering aftertaste.
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Raw puerh dragon ball
Uh, oops
Raw puerh in a bowl
Who me?
(Left out on the table, knocked off by cat, someone apparently thought it was some sort of chew toy. Didn't seem to affect the flavor.)
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An empty box
Raw puerh in wood fired stoneware
It's taken a few weeks, but I've finished off my Xizihao Daughter raw puerh samples. Ending on my favorite of the bunch, 2017 Spreading Joy. Not sure what's next, maybe just green teas.
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Raw puerh in wood fired stoneware
In any case, making good progress through my Xizihao Daughter raw puerh samples, tried 'em all, only 4 doses left.
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Dry raw puerh
Where the sun today?
Raw puerh in brown bowls
Spent raw puerh leaves
2022 "Elegance of the Century" raw puerh from Xizihao Daughter Tea. If you're going to call a tea "Elegance of the Century", it better be good. While I'm not always a huge fan of very young sheng, this is a very good young sheng from Xizihao Daughter.
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Sheng cha in wood fired teaware
A few years ago I started a mixed bag for odds and ends from various enjoyable sheng puerh samples and cakes when they get below a full dose.
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Raw puerh cake
Raw puerh in wood fired pottery
Spent raw puerh leaves
Unbelievable
2018 Carefree from Xizihao Daughter Tea is a very nice young sheng, medium compression. Flavor rather quiet, clean, only subtle bitterness and slight astringency, even pushed. Energy similarly calming, no harsh edges.
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A piece from a Huang pian cake
Huang pian raw puerh
Spent Huang pian leaves
On the other hand, Huang Pian leaves tend to have different flavor characteristics from the leaves that are chosen to be used for actual raw puerh. They also are distinct in how they can be brewed and how they age.
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Dry raw puerh leaves
Tea in opaque wood fired teaware
Let sleeping dogs
Spent raw puerh leaves
The 2020 black wrapper version I am trying today is a very nice young puerh but currently at a quiet phase in its flavor evolution. Beautiful after taste and wonderful energy.
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A chunk of a raw puerh cake
The mystery of opaque teaware
Spent raw puerh leaves
Experts mull whether US at 'crisis' point
(The piece I got in the sample is ridiculously dense, includes a bit of the notch on the back of the cake.)
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Dry raw puerh leaves
The mystery of opaque teaware
Spent raw puerh leaves
They do have very nice tea wrappers. I can tell you I enjoy their 2018 Spreading Joy raw puerh more than their 2018 Drunk raw puerh.
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Tea chest
Dry raw puerh leaves
Wood fired pottery from Jiri Duchek
Spent raw puerh leaves
Drinking a treasure chest of Xizihao Daughter Tea samples for the next week or so. This is 2018 Drunk Raw Puerh. Zip, Zap, Zoom!
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aged #shengcha from the white2storage
Ha! I actually thought this was a ripe puerh with a similar red label (camphornaught) before I looked closely. Well, in any case, it is a pleasant young raw puerh. Fruity. Glad I didn't throw it in a thermos, tho!
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