Adrian Cherniak-Koeck
Janvier 2024
Avis en anglaisI am a tea-head and Pu'Erh aficionado... this tea is fantastic. Using Gong Fu style, I first preheat the Gaiwan with boiling water before adding 8 grams/100ml of this leaf and covering for 15 seconds, letting the warm steam open the initial leaves and bring out the volatiles. Rock candy, icing sugar and malted toffee notes on the nose. I brew it at 212F/100C on the first wash, not breaking the cha-dan, and discard the wash after 9 seconds. I then cover the tea leaves to let the steam drip the volatiles from the lid onto the tea again, and brew with 195F/92C water for up to 10 infusions. The sweet sugary aftertaste lingers on and on. Driving to work it's like sucking on a candy, with the saliva holding that sweetness. For a light and sweet Pu'Erh, this is the cats meow. Drink On, Teaheads. The Tea Shall Set You Free.
Avis en anglaisSo good and soothing - this is my go-to hangover tea or for stressful mornings and it always makes me feel incredible. The flavour is very smooth and not on the musty side like you get with many puerhs. Will be buying many times!
Avis en anglaisStunned at how amazing this tea is. I drink the blackest of blacks,and mostly Shu puerh as I like my tea STRONG and dark. Full bodied . Lapsang Souchong is my favorite. But I wanted to try a well aged Sheng as I heard they are better than the shu. Ripe... cooked Puerh. When I saw how light and golden this was... I was worried . But this is smooth, NO bitterness. Buttery, soft, delicate and has a honey apricot flavor. I will be buying it again. LOVE it!
Avis en anglaisGreat! Filled with fruit aroma, clean, smooth, astringent but the bitterness disappears in the mouth after one or two seconds.
Avis en anglaisI was suprised by this tea. I was expecting a darker, more "aged" taste, this tea is very clean tasting and still very "green". A lovely thick mouthfeel, a little astringencey in the first infusions which fades quickly. The wet leaves smell faintly smokey with a nice hay aroma coming forward. The taste is very sweet and lingers in the whole mouth for a long time. Also this tea has obviously been processed and cared for very well. The leaves are still all in tact and the ratio of buds to leaves is very high making for a nice rounded flavour.
At this price it's a real bargain for age and quality. If you store this tea correctly it will develop nice fruit flavours I believe.
Avis en anglaisThis raw puerh is fragrant and fresh. It is unlike any puerh I have tried- very woods-floral and the taste is incredible- I get many infusions when I prepare it in my gaiwan.
Avis en anglaisI want to know if this kind of puer tea is organic.I didn't find on the bag.
Traduit de l’anglais · Voir l’originalPas aussi ancien qu'un 20 ans pourrait l'être. Infuse plusieurs fois. Les feuilles sont de bonne qualité. Achetez un échantillon, voyez si vous êtes d'accord, si vous l'aimez, achetez une grande quantité, vieillez-la encore 10 ans et vous devriez avoir un très bon investissement et un excellent thé de qualité.Not as ancient as a 20 year could be. Steeps out many times. The leaves are good quality. Buy a sample, see if you agree, if you like it, buy a bulk of it, age it another 10 years and you should have a pretty good investment and a great quality tea.
Traduit de l’anglais · Voir l’originalCe thé a un goût merveilleux - une bouche lisse et veloutée accompagnée d'un bouquet floral.
Il ne supporte pas beaucoup d'infusions cependant. J'utilise 5g de feuilles avec 100ml d'eau, et j'infuse environ 15 secondes. Après les 5 ou 6 premières infusions, le goût semble diminuer considérablement, et à partir de ce moment, le thé a besoin d'infusions de 1 à 2 min.This tea tastes wonderful - a smooth and velvety mouthfeel accompanied by a floral boquet.
It does not withstand a lot of brews however. I use 5g of leaves with 100ml of water, and steep for around 15 seconds. After the first 5 or 6 brews the taste seems to diminsh markedly, and from that point on the tea needs 1 to 2 min steeps.
Stephen Sanders
Février 2022
Traduit de l’anglais · Voir l’originalUn sheng puerh au goût pur. Bonne longévité et très adapté aux sessions tout en faisant autre chose.A clean tasting sheng puerh. A good longevity and very session-able whilst multitasking.
Phillip Matthews
Avril 2024
Traduit de l’anglais · Voir l’originalCe "thé vieilli 20 ans" est correct mais pas ce qu'un thé vieilli devrait être. C'est exactement comme un Pu-erh fraîchement fait, de qualité moyenne, très vert et pas du tout vieilli. Peut-être que lorsqu'il a été fabriqué, il a été trop cuit au wok ou à la machine? Peut-être qu'il a été conservé dans des conteneurs hermétiques qui ont complètement empêché le vieillissement? Peut-être qu'il n'est pas du tout vieilli et a été mélangé avec un nouveau Pu-erh dans un entrepôt quelque part. Quoi qu'il en soit, ce n'est vraiment pas digne d'être appelé vieilli.This '20 year aged tea' is okay but not what an aged tea should be. It's exactly like a newly made pure, average quality, very green and not at all aged. Maybe when it was made it was over cooked in the wok or machine? Maybe it was stored in air=tight containers that completely prevented ageing? Maybe it's not aged at all and got mixed up with a new puer in a warehouse somewhere. Whatever happened this is not really worthy of being called aged.
Robert Shippy
Décembre 2022
Traduit de l’anglais · Voir l’originalBien que je puisse dire que c'est un thé de bonne qualité qui prépare une tasse claire, la saveur est un peu trop éthérée pour moi. J'aime la odeur de terre mouillée/de chevaux d'un puerh bien vieilli. J'essaie d'en savoir plus sur les variétés Sheng, mais jusqu'à présent, selon mon expérience, les versions abordables ne sont pas du tout aussi robustes que les variétés cuites/Shu. J'ai apprécié ce thé, avec ses notes douces de camphre et de bois. J'ai hâte de voir comment il vieillit dans un bocal de stockage yixing.While I can say this is a nice quality tea that brews a clear cup, the flavor is a bit too ethereal for me. I like the petrichor/equine mustiness of a well-aged puerh. I am trying to learn more about Sheng varieties, but so far in my experience the affordable ones are not nearly as robust as the cooked/Shu varieties. I enjoyed this tea, with soft camphor and woody notes. I am interested to see how it ages in a yixing storage jar.
Avis en anglaisI love the tea, but they recently changed their packaging, at least for the 3.52 Oz. I like that it's recyclable, but there's a window and light degrades tea quality, which a tea company really should know. Hopefully, they're just doing this for pu-erh, but it's disappointing.
Avis en anglaisSeems very weak tasting on my first infusion. I followed directions and color was still faintly amber (barely)! I’m used so far to a darker, richer Pu’erh tea. I honestly couldn’t give it 5* stars due to the lack of taste and weak body. If it does get better with repeat infusions I’ll be pleasantly surprised. Otherwise I will probably blend this with a stronger Pu’erh so it doesn’t go to waste.
William Fletcher
Juin 2023
Traduit de l’anglais · Voir l’originalJe ne sais pas si je m'y prends mal mais j'ai essayé de changer la température de l'eau, le temps d'infusion, la quantité de thé, le rincer deux fois, tout ce que j'obtiens c'est une saveur d'eau savonneuse amère et je ne semble pas pouvoir obtenir un autre résultat. La même chose s'est produite avec l'honeybush et le moonlight white. Cette activité de feuilles de thé ne semble pas être un bon passe-temps pour moi, ce qui est dommage puisque je pensais l'utiliser pour m'aider à arrêter de fumer. Peut-être que je vais continuer à essayer, mais à ce stade, ces feuilles rendent mon thé en sachet standard comme étant de bonne qualité. J'ai même acheté une bouilloire différente pour contrôler la température de l'eau, toujours pas de meilleurs résultatsDon't know if I'm doing it wrong but I tried changing the water temp,steep time, amount of tea,washing it twice all I am getting is a bitter soapy water flavour and I can't seem to get any other result same thing happend with the honybush and the moonlight white. this tea leaf business doesn't seem like it'll be a good hobby for me which is a shame since I was going to use it to help me stop smoking maybe ill keep trying but at this point these leafs make my standard tea bag seem like good quality I even got a different kettle to controll water temp still no better results
Avis en anglaisdon't buy it ..it's awful
A. Lexiconn
Septembre 2018
Avis en anglaisI've tried to brew this 20 yr Aged 'Iceland' Pu'erh many times, many ways: weak, strong, 2nd infusion... No attempt has yielded any interesting aroma or taste whatever. It's clearly the most bland, tasteless tea of ANY type I've ever had. Markedly weaker than any of the pu'er varieties I've tried before.
I simply can't comprehend the 5 star reviews from other buyers here --- they are describing a totally different product than I received. I'll be adding what's left of it to my compost bin.
