Another photoshoot a few weeks in the making, this tea is an unusual form of 普洱生茶 (Pǔ'ěr shēng chá or Pu'er raw tea). The leaves come from the renowned village 勐海昔归 (Měnghǎi Xīguī or Xigui, Menghai, Yunnan) near Lingcang, famous for some of the best old-growth tea leaves available with a unique terroir. It is then further processed (packaged and aged) in 昆明市云南省 (Yúnnán Shěng Kūnmíng Shì or Kunming, Yunnan).

This kind of tea is called "cylinder compressed" and is made by pounding the initially-processed tea, while still slightly damp, into bamboo containers before being put out to be dried and aged.

This particular one comes from 2020 and was removed from its bamboo shell and wrapped in crepe paper and some kind of leaf (large bamboo leaf? banana leaf? lotus leaf? I'm not sure which) for sale.

I should point out that as a very young raw tea this is absolutely *not* a beginner's tea. It is very finicky and fussy to brew and making mistakes with it can leave you with an undrinkable and bitter brew that strips the lining from your mouth and throat, or can leave you with a very mildly-flavoured cup of water.

Do it right, however, and you get a tea of genuine character.

I'll probably grab a few more cylinders of this young stuff and store it patiently for at least another six years and I'll likely have a perfect raw pu'er.

As usual, the alt text has more information and Mastodon users will have to click through to see all of the photographs.

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I took delivery of several new teas this week, this being the first photo essay of the set. Each one is a very different kind of tea and in upcoming weeks I will be making new photo essays.

Since today was nice weather I did my more usual pretentious style of layout, complete with the incense brazier (burning agar wood incense), the bamboo slip scroll of the 茶经 (Chá Jīng or The Classic of Tea) all to frame the real star of the essay.

And that star is 陈皮普洱 (Chénpí Pǔ'ěr or Tangerine Peel Pu'er). It's literally a hollowed-out tangerine peel—specifically 小青柑 (xiǎo qīng gān or little green tangerine), a kind that is green even when ripe—that has had (cooked) pu'er tea stuffed inside of it and then dried out. It's a famous kind of tea here and I've had it before, but never bought it for myself and made it in my own home.

Until today.

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My little tea bowl filled with pu'er tea. 🍵
This has been lingering in my exported pictures folder for a while.
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友开始给我数倒计时让我惊惶，要做的事情确实也不少，但是现在，喝茶！
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I finally made another video after way too long
Unboxing 2022 Puerh Beginner Package from Liquid Proust
https://youtu.be/bwj3x4QFchg
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