Erik EllestadAfter being soaked on this morning's dog walk, Hojicha seemed like a good choice. ("Naturalitea #09 Superior Hojicha" via Yunomi Tea via Liquid Proust.
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).
Theodore CheekLiquid Proust, it's Liquid Proust that's on my mind, Mastodon.
I was gifted this rather amazing tea, apparently sourced by liquidproust.com, an Anaerobic Roasted Ruby Oolong, this one made to really bring out the GABA in the tea. In short, it's delightful. I'm only 5 steeps in and I'm happily medicating my way through day job stress.
Also how about that business name, though. Nice.
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2010 Xiaguan Nan Zhao is another random raw puerh sample from Liquid Proust. Xiaguan is a classic puerh factory, well known for their "iron cakes" and similarly densely packed tuo (mushroom top shaped cakes). 2010 Nan Zhao is not that densely packed. Smokey character, complex flavor, bitterness creeping at the edges. If you're a sensitive type, not a tea to drink on an empty stomach. The internal leaves in the cake are very small, shards. Keeping steeps short. Tea drunk by noon.
2015 Wanggong Baohongyinji raw puerh is another random Sheng sample via Liquid Proust, probably from a raw puerh sampler box. BaoHongYinJi is a Taiwan based boutique puerh producer and this is a very balanced young/middle aged puerh. Very loosely compressed, you can tease it apart without a pick. Beautiful leaves. Complex flavor, pleasant returning sweetness, long lingering aftertaste.
This 2005 Yang Qing Hao Yiwu Huang Pian is definitely on the forest floor and autumn leaf puddle side of tea flavor. It is a bit astringent/drying in the middle and later steeps. Nice aftertaste and great energy, tho. I must have gotten it in a sampler I ordered from Andrew at Liquid Proust.
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Xiaguan 2003 Cang'er raw puerh. I would call this a pretty typical upper middle Xiaguan aged raw puerh. Rock-like compression, light smoke, umami, and forest floor; well integrated flavors. Via Liquid Proust, I don't remember any details they might have provided about storage, but seems dry-ish considering age.
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Got this this 2015 Hojo Ma An Shan from liquidproust a few years back. Hojo is a Japanese tea company that sources teas from various places, including Yunnan, China. The Ma An Shan is an unusual raw Puerh, almost tastes like an oolong, fruity and very sweet, but with a raw Puerh backbone. One of those, "a tea that seems a little different every time I try it and I wish I had more than this one sample," kind of things...
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Vesper Chan selected 2015 Meng-Song Arbor Red Yunnan Black Tea (via Liquid Proust). I like this a lot, but it's charms are more subtle than obvious. Scent of dried fruit when steeping tea, soft flavor, quiet warming energy, many steeps.
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2015 Vesper Chan Selected Meng-Song Arbor Red Tea via Liquid Proust. Vesper Chan runs "The Best Tea House" in Hong Kong and was an early and influential booster of young raw puerh. This is a very nice sun dried Yunnan Red (or Shai Hong) that a small US puerh importer who calls his business "Liquid Proust" had on their website a while back.
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