2005 Xinghai "Silver Peacock" Ripe Pu-erh Tea Cake from Yunnan Sourcing

2005 Xinghai "Silver Peacock" Ripe Pu-erh Tea Cake

Tea type
Pu'erh (shou) Blend
Ingredients
Pu Erh Tea
Flavors
Autumn Leaf Pile, Creamy, Leather, Sweet, Woodsy
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Average preparation
Boiling 0 min, 15 sec 5 g 8 oz / 236 ml

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A classic Xinghai ripe tea produced from the late 90’s until.  Xinghai tea factory is the 2nd producer of ripe tea in Menghai town (after Menghai tea factory), and has an excellent “wo dui” fermentation process.  This cake is called “Menghai Old Tree” and is also “Silver Peacock” recipe.

 Our 2005 Silver Peacock was aged in Guangdong.  It’s a “Guangdong dry-stored” tea that has already lost it’s “wo dui” (fermented) taste.  The tea brews up a deep, dark but clear burgundy-brown tea soup.  The tea is super sweet and smooth with a dried cherry after-taste.  Goes many many rounds and is nearly impossible to over-brew.

Some wrappers may be bug-bitten with little holes in the paper. There may also be some dust between the wrapper and the cake. Rinse tea once or twice briefly before drinking! If you are squeamish please don’t order this tea!

357 Grams per cake

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70
Recommended
103 tasting notes

I received this 2005 shou as a part of a storage comparison tea set from YS. It is a potent tea, both in aroma and flavor. I steeped 5g leaf in 8oz boiling alpine spring water for 10s (after a 10s rinse), repeating for 9 infusions, the final going 30s. Each infusion was dark brown in color, sweet, creamy, smooth and pleasant in taste, with an aroma of sawdust, leather, and leaf litter, with a hint of tea leaf. No fishiness or objectionable flavors, no bitterness or astringency. But certainly no notes of cherry in flavor or aroma, as reported by the vendor and by several other tasters, either. It was a good, basic ripe puer but without anything particularly notable, either good or bad. So I rate it at a solid 70. As of Jan 2025 it is still in stock and for sale as full cakes or smaller samples.

Flavors: Autumn Leaf Pile, Creamy, Leather, Sweet, Woodsy

Preparation
Boiling 0 min, 15 sec 5 g 8 OZ / 236 ML
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