Adrian Cherniak-Koeck
January 2024
I am a tea-head and Pu'Erh aficionado... this tea is fantastic. Using Gong Fu style, I first preheat the Gaiwan with boiling water before adding 8 grams/100ml of this leaf and covering for 15 seconds, letting the warm steam open the initial leaves and bring out the volatiles. Rock candy, icing sugar and malted toffee notes on the nose. I brew it at 212F/100C on the first wash, not breaking the cha-dan, and discard the wash after 9 seconds. I then cover the tea leaves to let the steam drip the volatiles from the lid onto the tea again, and brew with 195F/92C water for up to 10 infusions. The sweet sugary aftertaste lingers on and on. Driving to work it's like sucking on a candy, with the saliva holding that sweetness. For a light and sweet Pu'Erh, this is the cats meow. Drink On, Teaheads. The Tea Shall Set You Free.
Darran Riche
December 2021
I really like this tea, my first try of an aged raw pu'erh.
I get a smooth gentle taste of apricot melon and raisins with zero astringency/bitterness. I use a round teaspoon in a 150ml yixing teapot for 3mins, and get 3 tasteful steeps, a little longer for each steep which works well for my taste.
So good and soothing - this is my go-to hangover tea or for stressful mornings and it always makes me feel incredible. The flavour is very smooth and not on the musty side like you get with many puerhs. Will be buying many times!
Stunned at how amazing this tea is. I drink the blackest of blacks,and mostly Shu puerh as I like my tea STRONG and dark. Full bodied . Lapsang Souchong is my favorite. But I wanted to try a well aged Sheng as I heard they are better than the shu. Ripe... cooked Puerh. When I saw how light and golden this was... I was worried . But this is smooth, NO bitterness. Buttery, soft, delicate and has a honey apricot flavor. I will be buying it again. LOVE it!
Great! Filled with fruit aroma, clean, smooth, astringent but the bitterness disappears in the mouth after one or two seconds.
I was suprised by this tea. I was expecting a darker, more "aged" taste, this tea is very clean tasting and still very "green". A lovely thick mouthfeel, a little astringencey in the first infusions which fades quickly. The wet leaves smell faintly smokey with a nice hay aroma coming forward. The taste is very sweet and lingers in the whole mouth for a long time. Also this tea has obviously been processed and cared for very well. The leaves are still all in tact and the ratio of buds to leaves is very high making for a nice rounded flavour.
At this price it's a real bargain for age and quality. If you store this tea correctly it will develop nice fruit flavours I believe.
This raw puerh is fragrant and fresh. It is unlike any puerh I have tried- very woods-floral and the taste is incredible- I get many infusions when I prepare it in my gaiwan.
I want to know if this kind of puer tea is organic.I didn't find on the bag.
Not as ancient as a 20 year could be. Steeps out many times. The leaves are good quality. Buy a sample, see if you agree, if you like it, buy a bulk of it, age it another 10 years and you should have a pretty good investment and a great quality tea.
This tea tastes wonderful - a smooth and velvety mouthfeel accompanied by a floral boquet.
It does not withstand a lot of brews however. I use 5g of leaves with 100ml of water, and steep for around 15 seconds. After the first 5 or 6 brews the taste seems to diminsh markedly, and from that point on the tea needs 1 to 2 min steeps.
Stephen Sanders
February 2022
A clean tasting sheng puerh. A good longevity and very session-able whilst multitasking.
Phillip Matthews
April 2024
This '20 year aged tea' is okay but not what an aged tea should be. It's exactly like a newly made pure, average quality, very green and not at all aged. Maybe when it was made it was over cooked in the wok or machine? Maybe it was stored in air=tight containers that completely prevented ageing? Maybe it's not aged at all and got mixed up with a new puer in a warehouse somewhere. Whatever happened this is not really worthy of being called aged.
Robert Shippy
December 2022
While I can say this is a nice quality tea that brews a clear cup, the flavor is a bit too ethereal for me. I like the petrichor/equine mustiness of a well-aged puerh. I am trying to learn more about Sheng varieties, but so far in my experience the affordable ones are not nearly as robust as the cooked/Shu varieties. I enjoyed this tea, with soft camphor and woody notes. I am interested to see how it ages in a yixing storage jar.
I love the tea, but they recently changed their packaging, at least for the 3.52 Oz. I like that it's recyclable, but there's a window and light degrades tea quality, which a tea company really should know. Hopefully, they're just doing this for pu-erh, but it's disappointing.
Seems very weak tasting on my first infusion. I followed directions and color was still faintly amber (barely)! I’m used so far to a darker, richer Pu’erh tea. I honestly couldn’t give it 5* stars due to the lack of taste and weak body. If it does get better with repeat infusions I’ll be pleasantly surprised. Otherwise I will probably blend this with a stronger Pu’erh so it doesn’t go to waste.
William Fletcher
June 2023
Don't know if I'm doing it wrong but I tried changing the water temp,steep time, amount of tea,washing it twice all I am getting is a bitter soapy water flavour and I can't seem to get any other result same thing happend with the honybush and the moonlight white. this tea leaf business doesn't seem like it'll be a good hobby for me which is a shame since I was going to use it to help me stop smoking maybe ill keep trying but at this point these leafs make my standard tea bag seem like good quality I even got a different kettle to controll water temp still no better results
don't buy it ..it's awful
A. Lexiconn
September 2018
I've tried to brew this 20 yr Aged 'Iceland' Pu'erh many times, many ways: weak, strong, 2nd infusion... No attempt has yielded any interesting aroma or taste whatever. It's clearly the most bland, tasteless tea of ANY type I've ever had. Markedly weaker than any of the pu'er varieties I've tried before.
I simply can't comprehend the 5 star reviews from other buyers here --- they are describing a totally different product than I received. I'll be adding what's left of it to my compost bin.
