Raw Puerh Friday. Not sure why I don't buy a cake of Farmer Leaf's "daily drinker" Jingmai Miyun every year.

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2019 Spring Jingmai Shengtai raw puerh Maocha from Farmer Leaf. Super clean, soft flavor and pleasant mellow energy. Long, long mint-camphor aftertaste.

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Thursday raw puerh, 2018 Spring Jingmai Miyun from Farmerleaf tea. Their "daily drinker" puerh blend is a soft, low bitterness blend with pleasant body based energy. Very good value raw puerh!

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2017 Spreading Joy Raw Puerh from Xizihao Daughter Tea.

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I was inspecting the basement tea supplies to check that the garage denizens hadn't done too much damage this winter, when I noticed they had nipped the edges of this teas' very nice wrapper. I don't remember the exact decision making process that led me to purchase from this vendor. This is 2006 Hong Tai Chang 0803 Thailand raw puerh style tea. From near Chiang Mai, alleged very old trees at 1300 meters, the early impressions are of light smoke and wood. It finishes with incense and perfume and a very long lasting mint-camphor aftertaste. Not a light puerh, definitely on the burly side, both in energy and flavor. Feels like a good deal for the price, whatever led me to buy it.

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2017 "Laowushan" raw puerh from Xizihao Daughter is surprisingly mellow for its relatively young age. And despite its mellow flavor, leaves a lengthy impression in the empty cup and in my mind. Calming, body centered energy completes the picture.

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2020 Baby Dragon Raw Puerh from Crimson Lotus teas. A reasonably priced easy drinking puerh blend. Early steeps are fruity and soft. As you push the length of steeps, a bitter green backbone becomes apparent in the aftertaste.

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2016 Mengku Naked Dragonball from White2Tea. Since I've been drinking raw puerh teas that are about the same age, but stored in "wetter/hotter" places like Taiwan and Guangzhou, it is interesting to try this tea. The soft vibrant character of the tea is out front with just a hint of storage character lurking in the background. It does have good length of flavor, on the palate and in the cup, and a pleasant energy.

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I was looking around last night for something interesting to drink and noticed this "Jing Mai 2004" (raw puerh) from Farmer Leaf. I don't know any details about this tea beyond that it seems to have been included with another order as a bonus (I think maybe after one of my orders disappeared in transit). Farmer Leaf's first incarnation didn't exist until 2011, so it can't really be a 'Farmer Leaf" tea. However, William's in-laws were in the tea business in Jing Mai prior to 2011, so perhaps a find in the family warehouse. Fairly strong storage character, mild bitterness, and soft tea flavor would be how I would describe the flavor. Energy is chest centered, clean, and relaxing.

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Xizihao Daughter "Oddly Confused" 2016 Raw Puerh Tea. Xizihao Daughter is a Taiwan based tea supplier who (mostly) specializes in puerh. Artistic labels, unusual names, mysterious origins, fairly expensive teas, quasi luxury trappings. (Sound familiar?) I picked up a sampler of some of their young-middle aged puerh. "Oddly Confused" is good now and I can kind of see where it is going. I bet it will be really good in a few years once it completely settles in to it's flavors, but it isn't there yet.

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2016 "Beneath an Emerald Sea" raw puerh blend from Crimson Lotus teas. Received via tea trade. Small leaves and pieces, keeping the steeps short. Floral and herbaceous, very low bitterness. Some aged character showing up in the early steeps. Clean energy. Another enjoyable young puerh from this producer.

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Low Rider 2019 Raw Puerh from Crimson Lotus received via tea trade. Easy drinking low bitterness, lower astringency, young puerh. Darker flavors, good length of flavor in the mind and empty cup.

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"Silver Foil" Nanuo spring 2016 raw puerh dragon ball from Jalam Teas. Jalam Teas was an enterprise started by traveler, journalist, and adventurer Jeff Fuchs to release teas from farmers he has met on his various journeys in China. Sadly, (especially given the high quality of tea they were releasing,) the Jalam Tea enterprise fell apart a few years ago, so this is now a tea from a ghost company.

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A nice comforting cup of puerh for a rainy morning. I like to drink with the weather, so today I'm having a geosmin heavy, Hong Kong traditionally stored, raw puerh from Yeeon Tea.

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2013 Gushù Bādá from Puerh.SK. Young to middle age raw puerh, fairly clean storage character. Don't know much else about the tea, was included as a sample with another order. (Glad I replaced our water filter before brewing!)

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Finishing off the aged raw puerh MyTeaPal club sampler with the last of the 2013 Mangfei Dashu, Yongde, Lincang, raw puerh. Stored loose in Chengdu, Sichuan, for around 10 years. I think, ultimately, this might have been my favorite of the four.

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A bit disappointed that the 2009 MyTeaPal Club Bulang Arbor, which has been stored in Chengdu since 2015, doesn't taste/smell like Chengdu chile oil. (It's actually a very good middle aged raw puerh.)

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Interesting to see the response to the somewhat strong wet storage character of the 2011 Cao Gen raw puerh, (Bulang tea, Guangdong storage,) among the MyTeaPal club subscribers. I liked it and it reminded me I should revisit some of the teas in my collection with wet storage character. Most had another response.

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2010-15 Yiwu Dashu raw puerh blend from MyTeaPal Club. Good scent and body, mild flavor. A bit of astringency, I assume from the younger leaves in the blend. Enjoyable, but a touch green.

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Mangfei Dashu Lincang 2013 raw puerh from the MyTeaPal Club. Soft flavor and good length of scent impressions. The harshness of young puerh has mellowed. An enjoyable cup.

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