“This tea got me into trouble. As I was sipping away, writing my review, I started looking at tea ware. Once the 3 hour tea session was done, I dented my paypal account with a yixing pot. Be warned!...” Read full tasting note
“This is delicious, OMGsrsly. I drank this all day, using short steeps of 5-15 sec and I never once became bored. I also had a mini heart attack when I visually interpreted the delightful tea...” Read full tasting note
“I’m going to combine two reviews. In March 2015 I bought a cake of this tea and tasted it twice soon after delivery. I loved it. It had a light honeysuckle flavor, with underlying depth. ...” Read full tasting note
“I drank some 2011 white buds from Norbu yesterday so I pulled these out to compare with today. I find this to have a stronger taste, but not in the good way. There is a wild element to this tea...” Read full tasting note
Yet another top-shelf tea procured by us during our April 2012 tea buying trip in China. This is our 3rd production of a silver needle tea. The 2008 and the 2011 editions of this are aging so well and this one will follow in their footsteps for sure as a little brother. We chose this material and had only 20 kgs pressed at a small pu’er workshop in SW China. This is our first 100 gram raw pressing.
This tea is very tasty and both new and old raw pu’er drinkers will find their senses satisfied in a way that only Yong de area grown teas can accomplish. While many will brew this with boiling water, others will be happier with this in its smoother form at temps between 175 and 190. Try it both ways! Experiment.
This tea is entirely hand-processed from the picking of the sun-dried buds to the pressing with old stone molds.
A must-try tea of 2012, year of the dragon!
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