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“second review… My first review on this Puerh was just after I joined Steepster 5 months ago. Seems like ages in tea months! I’ve been a ‘tea person’ such a short time. I scored this tea pretty...” Read full tasting note
“Awhile back I ordered some teas from Adagio, including several sample size teas, this being one of them. I’ve been drinking a lot of Puerh lately, which doesn’t make me any kind of expert, mind...” Read full tasting note
“2nd unflavored cooked Pu Erh properly prepared. I’m amazed at the lack of scent the raw leaves have, it’s even lighter than Pu Erh Dante… which makes me hope I’ll like this even more. Parameters...” Read full tasting note
“Let me start by saying this; Very interesting…. Dry Smell: Like fresh horse poop. Wet: when water was first added it smelled like rancid fish, after it finished steeping it smelled similar to musty...” Read full tasting note
Black tea from the Yunnan region of China. Pu Erh tea, perhaps the most esoteric of Chinese varieties, has a pronounced earthy aroma and taste. It is very popular in China due to its notoriety as a slimming diet tea. Recent studies seem to support this claim, but attribute this property to all teas. If you are partial to Pu Erh teas, try delighting your palate with the rich taste of this superior grade tea.
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Velvety texture and earthy, this one has some nice herbal complexity to it. The flavor profile is similar to coffee from Sumatra with a lingering and somewhat juicy finish. The aroma recalls afternoons spent exploring the storage rooms in the barns back on the farm. There an odd dusty component as well.
Welp, here we go again. Time for another hurricane in about four days supposedly. We have plenty of water stored up and I have purchased a cast iron hibachi so I can still make tea even if the power goes out, so with the addition of milk, bread, and toilet paper, I would say we are as ready as we can get.
Yesterday our kids came to celebrate my husband’s birthday and the birthday of my daughter-in-law, our own ChelseaRae. This requires a lot of tea, and that tea is usually puerh for our gatherings. Shu pu, specifically.
My eldest daughter, Superanna, had been to Chicago recently and went to an Adagio store. How did I not realize they had brick and mortar stores? She brought back three teas for me and this is the only one I have tried because these leaves just keep giving.
Reviews are all over the place. Some say the dry leaves have no aroma. Mine are quite aromatic. Some say this is very fishy. There is a hint of fish but overwhelmingly I smell compost (I like that) and horse. The main comment yesterday was “just the right amount of horse.” Maybe we are weird.
We really, really like this. First steep was close to three minutes but after that, I just let the leaves kiss the water because it was instantly DARK DARK DARK. And so good. It has great body, an oily heft, and so wet you gulp it down. Steep after steep was consumed and I have made another steep today. It is fresh and clean tasting and I have been drinking solo and with my meals. Really good stuff and a nice daily drinker to look forward to.
We are readying ourselves for Florence up here in Richmond too. You and your family stay safe, ashmanra!
Looks like we are in the bulls eye too.
Stay safe!
Thank you! We are as well prepared as we can be, I suppose! Hubby is essential personnel so middle daughter and I will be riding it out at home with the chickens and the dog. The turtles probably won’t even notice. Stay safe, everyone! Teatotaler and mrmopar, let us hear from you after the storm so we know you are okay!
Will do, ashmanra! :::Hugs::: Please give us an update too! God bless and protect!
I didn’t know there were actual adagio stores either. Hope everyone stays safe out there!
Well…reminds me of silage, you know, the old hay/cornstalks/whatever is left after harvest that is stored by the farmer in a silo, left all winter to ferment and to feed the cows when there’s nothing green to eat? That stuff. Fermented half-rotten cornstalks in a barn warmed by 30 head of cattle and their various bodily excretions and fulmigations.
Not that this is necessarily a bad thing, mind you. Kinda.
A friend of mine (a big foodie and an excellent cook) will only buy imported butter because she says all butter made in the US tastes like silage. After she said this, I did a taste test myself and though I’m not sure I’ve encountered silage before in my life, she’s right about the taste difference.
Aw man that sucks! At least fermented tea is expected to taste a little…like rotten vegetation. Btw, by the end of that cup i decided i liked the warm barn flavor. Not loved, but liked.
Holy fish! This doesn’t smell like much of anything dry, but upon brewing it smells very fishy. But then you sip it, and there is a bit of an aquatic note, but it isn’t nearly as fishy as it smells unless you are taking a huge whiff while sipping. It is less nuanced than many others I have tried. Good, but not great.
Pu Erh teas in general can be pretty daunting. I bought this tea as part of a set from Adaigo and knew that it was going one of the harder ones to understand/get. I brewed the tea in a few different methods, but tossing out the instructions on the bag gave the most success. This tea needs to be rinsed the first time through, it’s only on the 2nd and 3rd infusion that the flavors comes out. What a color! It was almost completely black, like coffee. This is a very earthy, hay like, musky, garden like tea.
It was my least liked tea in the Adaigo pack but is more of a function of how it is a different type tea compared to the other ones. I look forward to trying others and learning to brew it in a more gentle manner.
absolutely awful. this tea smelled like dirt and fish when dry; when brewed the smell was lessened but still there. I am not afraid of smoky and earthy flavors, as I enjoy lapsang souchong and scotch whisky, but I just could not enjoy this tea
My first taste was “as is” and I didn’t find it objectionable, but not to my liking. So this time I followed (sort of) the recommendations others had made. I poured some boiling water through the tea basked, then steeped it. Ok, it still isn’t to my liking, but almost. I might consider trying another small sample pack sometime, but there are many other teas to try first.
