Erik EllestadFinal experiment in cross cultural blending: 5g White2Tea Tale Chaser (roasted ripe puerh) and 2g Yunomi Naturalitea Superior Hojicha. Weird, I like the blends that are unevenly divided between the teas more than evenly divided blend.
I really enjoy Tale Chaser, a charcoal roasted ripe puerh from White2Tea, but my wife is not a fan. "Tastes like seaweed," she says, (she says that about all ripe puerh). I can detect no wet pile or off taste and don't exactly find seaweed unappealing. Different strokes...
Scarlet Floret from White2Tea is a Fujian black tea, and a pretty classic example of the style of black tea made in Fujian at that. High scent, like plum or cherry blossom, low astringency, little bitterness.
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.
Camphire from White2Tea is a pine smoked Shou puerh (similar to smoked lapsang black tea). If you like smoked teas, smokey Scotch Whisky, and Mezcal, this is a shou puerh for you.
It's only taken me 5 years to drink through this pound of shou puerh minis. Why am I still buying more tea?
2024 Spring Yunnan Baicha Fuzhuan is another unusual hybrid tea from White2Tea, Yunnan white tea sent to be Hunan to be processed as "jingua heicha" or "fu bricks". You can already see “golden flowers,” (Eurotium cristatum), in the dry tea. Slight fennel-fruity character in the flavor, thick bodied tea. How will it age? Who knows?
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W2T says this Brown Sugar ripe puerh biscuit was from a "long ago club shipment". Is 2019 tea shipped in 2020 really "long ago"? It is well settled into its character.
