Erik EllestadGreat 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.
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).
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.
White2Tea's 2024 Jamrock Steady is, "Another one of these white2tea years in the making experiments. Aged raw Puer maocha from the mid 2010's pressed alongside light ferment small batch shou Puer than is 2-4 years old in a blend meant to mimic tea with decades of age." Easy drinking, calming energy; Jamrock Steady is an interesting experiment in puerh blending.
The final tea of the Pu-Erh.SK raw puerh educational tasting flight was Xiaguan Tuocha 2005. Xiaguan is well known for its Iron Cakes and it's mushroom top shaped tuocha cakes. It's not uncommon to find older Xiaguan cakes, but it is somewhat uncommon to find cleanly stored examples. This is a well stored example.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tea no 5 from a recent Pu-Erh.SK educational tasting flight was a Gedeng 2024 autumn raw puerh. Soft power.
