2025 Puerh.uk TianMenShan Extra Tall Ancient

 

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Dry leaves have a sweet peach and penetrating candy odour…

First infusion has sweet sugar and candy watery taste with a soft chalky mouthfeel. Cooled down it has a spice pungent onset with a stronger sugar icing sugar sweet return that stays for quite a while.

Second infusion has a sweet and spice pungent onset very delicious and pure.  Sweet layers that finish in a strong sweet icing sugar with layered pungent and forest taste and sticky mouthfeel.

Third infusion has a floral sweet pungent buttery sugary sweet taste.  Oily sticky texture.  Soft feeling in the body and mind.

Fourth infusion has a slight bittersweetness pungent forest woody fruity icing sugars. Sticky mouthfeel.  More present mouthfeel with sticky roof tongue and sides.  Mild peaceful feeling.

5th is left to cool and is a bitter sweet fruity pungent forest onset that evolves into very sweet icing sugary with banana and fruity layers.  Mild Spacy mind relaxing.  Mild heavy jaw feeling and face heavy feeling.  Chest slight heavy as well.

6th has a bitter sweet onset with pungent forest but mainly layered sweet tastes and even some woody.  Qi builds up and biggest in the chest with stronger beats now and stronger deeper sighs of relaxing and more face Qi is evident.

7th is left to cool and is a bitter mainly sweet fruity that transforms to icing sugary layers woody.  Qi in chest and face and jaw deeper relaxing mild and deep.

8th is an overnight mug infusion and it is a sweet ashy oily with long sweet fruity almost papaya and sugar.  Oily viscus sweet smooth thick and sweet with deeper relaxing feeling and some face sensations.

Peace

2025 Puerh.uk BoHeTang Laos Exrta Tall Ancient Trees

 

This 2025 Puerh.uk BoHetang Laos Extra Tall Ancient Trees goes for $380.00 for 200g cake or $1.90/g.  ( edit to correct pice Sept 26/2025).  It was my favorite of the sampling with its cozy feeling Qi and delicious taste…

Dry leaves have a sweet floral slight barnyard gamey creamy candy purfume.  Smells very delicious to me…

First infusion has a watery sweet and slight barnyard forestry taste with very wet mouthfeel and saliva producing effects.  Candy faint breath.

Second infusion is a forestry faint barnyard sweet taste forest with very wet mouthfeel and slight sticky sandy on the roof of mouth. Face sweating and warming feeling.  Spacy feeling.

Third infusion has a spice barnyard sweet taste with stronger warming face and body. Cooled down it is a sweet banana creamy sweet tropical soft slippery feeling.  Warming and deeply relaxing almost slightly or mildly hypnotic.

Fourth has a creamy tropical sweet slippery creamy almost banana with warming face and body qi very chill feeling sort of forest bland taste left in the mouth.  Warming coming feeling and relaxing chill out vibes.

5th infusion is a forestry blandly sweet with a cozy warming relaxing by the fire feeling.  Chest warming face warming.  Spaced out feeling.

6th has a slight sweet creamy banana almost tropical bland with Space out cozy warming feeling.

7th is cooled down and is a wet not that sweet forestry with warming cozy spacy feeling.

8th is an overnight mug infusion… and has nuances of barnyard and deeper forestry pungent layers.  Smooth Austere and mysterious in its depth.  A strong bring sweetness emerges which pops a while later and stays long in the mouth.  Candy peachy fruity sugar.  It stays in the oily saliva for minutes later… so yummy!

Peace

2025 Puerh.uk ManZhuan WaLong

This was the first sample of Puerh.uk 2025 puerh I tried and it was maybe my favourite or second favorite of the lot.  This 2025 Puerh.uk ManZhuan WaLong Pure Ancient Trees goes for approx $300.00 for 200g cake or $1.50/g.

This is the first sample I tried in Puerh.uk 2025 productions.

Dry leaves smell of pure ethereal candy … very sweet….

Rinsed leaves are a sweet fresh tropical candy sweet forest!

First infusion has a watery smooth sweet subtle candy wash and fade out on the breath.   chest swelling peaceful high with mild energy rising… visual acuity improved… mood uplift… cooled down is more forestry almost barnyard pungent.

Second infusion is left to cool it is a smooth pungent barnyard with a wet tongue coating and uplifting energy chest swelling and happy uplifting with mind sharp and visual acuity laser.  There is a wonderful conflicting feeling of there being strong energy boost and chesty expansion with a sharp focusing peace with no astringency nor bitterness.

Third infusion has a wet mouth onset with soft flavours slight woody slight pungent slight sweet with a mouthwatering effect and powerful Qi mind and bodyfeeling! Big deep energy boost with laser focused eyes and mind chest expanding face tingling. Wow this is really really good ManZhuan WaLong!

Fourth is left to cool and is a pungent barnyard sweet taste with a wet and slight sticky chalky mouthfeel.  Big chest swelling and energy boosting and eyes mind sharpening with face tingles! So good.  Big energy expansion feeling but yet the mind remains razor- laser sharp.

5th is left to cool and is a wet mouth with pungent cooling forest woody lesser sweet taste but chalky sticky feeling and big deep energy boost. Big chesty feeling and energy uplifting.

6th has a woody bland forest taste.  Still some uplifting but less bland woody mouthfinish and sticky mild mouthfeel.  

7th is an overnight mug infusion… it is mild sweet oily with a bit on the edges of sticky mild bitter woody forest pucker.  Mild lingering sweet fruity taste. Chest expanding and energetic uplift with mild almost apricot sugar that lingers on the saliva minutes later.

Peace

2025 Puerh.uk Line Up Release!

 Okay last year Puerh.uk started to release their very own fresh puerh!  It really offered me a very nuanced Gushu puerh experience with each production really offering a very high quality product… I enjoyed some of the free samples sent for review more than others as a matter of preference but taken together they took me through quite a journey… the Puerh.uk 2024 puerh is all really comfortable in the body and mind and most of it is more on the, dare I say, ethereal end of the spectrum instead of having very grounded in the classic tastes and feels of a particular production area.  I loved the journey last year.

This year Puerh.uk sent me another batch of free samples for review of their recently released 2025 line up.  I’ve just tried two so far but they seem ever better than last years.  It’s always awesome when Puerh vendors I frequent strive for better year after year and it seems like that’s happening with Puerh.uk.

Join me in the next posts as I engulf the ethereal and beyond!

Peace

Hoshino White Tea Powdered “Matcha Platinum”

This is a unique production from Hoshino in Yame it goes for $45 for 20g tin at Cultivate Tea they call it “Matcha Platinum”.  It’s one I’ve heard about before yet never tried so I was really excited about this matcha made from a white tea varietal.

Powder has a roasted sweet almonds and slight floral background overall sweet smell. 

Sweet with nut shell bitterness that moves fast to a chalky sweet finish.  More chalky sweet tastes.

Nice focus high Qi mind.

Peace

Yame Matcha in the Springtime: Harmonizing Tea Drinking to Season

The last few years I have been doing better at drinking teas that harmonize my energy to the seasonal changes.  I have been drinking Yame matcha in the springtime…. These are the two that I enjoyed this year…

Hoshino Tea Yame “Hoshi No Tsuyu” Matcha

Sweet vegital,almost creamy, sweet broccoli sweetness onset.  Creamy dreamy vegital sweetness finish.

Fluffy light mouthfeel with a creamy sweet onset that develops and sweet green tea vegital slight roasted with sweet broccoli green tea long finish. 

https://cultivatetea.com/collections/matcha/products/matcha-hoshi-no-tsuyu

Hoshino Yame “Houju”

This is the absolute highest grade from Yame.upon opening the lid the fresh odour of flowers, green tea and a sweet high notes roasted smell fills the air…

Sweet fluffy with a very light sweet vegetal sticky mouthfeel onset.  Light lingering sweet almost floral and milky aftertaste almost berries sweet finish.  Spacy and relaxing body Qi feeling.

Peace

https://cultivatetea.com/collections/matcha/products/matcha-houju

2025 Zhong Si Long Xiang Chun Lin

I got a Zheng Si Long cake of Xiang Chun Lin from a few years back and really like this yearly production from them… this 2025 Zheng Si Long Xiang Chun Lin goes for $120.00 for 200g cake or $0.60/g.

Dry leaves smell very delicious of a very sweet and very pungent floral honey odour.

Rinsed leaves are a strong piercing cooling pungent minty floral honey sweet melon….

First infusion is left to cool and is a sweet but not too sweet and floral but not to floral honey.  Mouthwatering delicious honey coating return with creamy sweet and fresh cut flowers mild taste.

Second infusion is a pungent spice with flat woody and wildflower floral tastes there is sweetness but less so- Most of the sweet taste is in the return and on the breath.  The texture is an oily but has a sharpness like a powder ly chalky mouthfeel to it.  Long faint candy minutes later on the breath.  Some chest bubbling feeling.

Third infusion has a vegetal mild bitter onset with a floral breath finish and hard to grasp return of sweet taste. The mouthfeel is a sandy sticky feeling with. Spaced out mind feeling.  Face tingling.  Mild heavy head feeling. Most of the body feel in face and skull.

4th has a pungent wildflower onset with a creamy buttercup flower sweet returning on the breath.  Cooled down is sweet buttery with vegetal mild bitterness and pungent wildflowers. Chest fluttering head and face mild heavy sensations.

5th infusion has a mild sweetness wildflower chalky dry roof of mouth feeling chest and head heavy sensations. Mild relaxing lazy. Not much sweet taste.

6th has a watery wildflower taste bland woody mild bitter not that sweet mild cool breath.  Dry roof mouthfeel.  Mild heart flutters, lazy feeling relax, 

7th is left to cool and is a watery bitter woody with mild creamy return. Dry roof of mouthfeeling.  Spacy uselessness. Heavy face and head.

8th is a long mug steeping and it is mildly bitter woody stone taste. Not really any sweet taste. Lazy feeling qi with mild bodyfeel of heavy head and face.  

Peace