Thoughts on Puerh.uk Gushus 2020-2005

 Many thanks to Paolo and Una for sending me many of Puerh.uk’s 2020-2025 line up as a gift with purchase or sample to review!  The 2020-2023 picks, some of which were maocha pressed later, and the 2024/2025s were selected fresh, I believe.  This is Puerh.uk first attempts at bringing to market their own line of fresh Gushu Sheng puerh.  Throughout the years of sampling and purchasing from Puerh.uk they always seem to over preform and I end up getting something better than my expectations.  This is a true for this line of puerh as well.

Puerh.uk line has obvious Gushu feel and has a focus on subtle and elegance although I feel like I have not sampled some of their higher priced line.  Overall the price seems fair. I mentioned in previous post on astronomical prices of some of these puerh but that one was actually the tong price.

I look forward to sampling others from this line in the future. 

Peace

Jagasilk Yumewakaba by Fujioka’s Uncle

 Jagasilk Yumewakaba by Fujioka’s Uncle goes for $53.00 CND for 20g or $2.65/g. This is in the reserve line of matcha at Jagasilk.

Powder is an icing sugar sweet with emerging pastry sweet notes and faint floral.

Sweet roasty pastry bukchoi with mineral  evergreen forest depth.  soft mouthfeel.  Faint pastry sweet finish in mouth.

Peaceful slight spacy feeling.

Peace

Jagasilk Okumidori by Professor Wada

 Jagasilk Okumidori by Professor Wada goes for 20g for $48.00 CND or $2.40/g.  It’s from the reserve line and is from the Wazuka region.

Powder is a sweet candy odour very light and sweet almost fruity and nutty.

Spinach and ash with a chalky powdery mouthfeel.  Sweet underneath oily soil wildflowers.  Lingering lesser sweet candy in mouth.

Mild but steadily energetic Qi…. I think … I was drinking this one in the early morning last week outside in the garden and it certainly woke me up nicely!

Peace

Jagasilk Samidori Blend by the Takaki Family

 

Jagasilk Samidori Blend by the Takaki Family goes for 75$ CND for 20g or $3.75. It’s from the reserve line at Jagasilk.  One of my favourite from Jagasilk so far was also a reserve from the Takaki family in Yame the Okumidori Okubo!

Dry powder has a rich roasted odour with layered florals and sweetness.

Roasted nutty sweet with floral wildflower and distant chocolate covered almond. Chalky slippery mouthfeel.  Nice roasted deeper taste profile.

Happy uplifted feeling with calm focusing Qi

Peace

2025 Puerh.uk “Beyond YiWu” Single Extra Tall Ancient

 This 2025 Puerh.uk “Beyond Yiwu” Single Ancient Tree goes for approx $300.00 for 200g cake or $1.50/g.  It is the last of Puerh.uk line of 2020-2025 line of samples for review… they have really been a beautiful experience and a sign of Puerh.uks growth.  There are still a few super expensive ones that I have not tried… I like the Youles the best and the TianMemShans! 

Loose mocha lime dry leaves are very very sweet candy creamy almost berries odour.

Rinsed leaves have a rich berries odour I’m thinking it’s Yesheng/ Wild Tea.

First infusion has rubbery fruity long taste and is immediately apparent that this is Yesheng/ wild tea.  Minutes long berries finish sugar layers and berries taste.  Subtle rubbery mild here. Sugar lingers on breath with stronger chest swelling big qi expanding feeling.

Second infusion has a berries and faint hard to grasp rubbery.  Sugary pop long spice berries finish long breath. Big chest feeling almost jitteryness energy boost again had the Qi and long breath finish of a Yesheng.

Third infusion is left to cool and has a nice very sweet sugar and berries and faint rubbery long breath sugar finish. Uplifting energized high boost.

Fourth infusion has a rubbery sweet woody sugar and berries. Strong chesty feeling and high.  Long breath taste of rubbery sweetness.strong intense energy boost high to the point of jittery.

5th is left to cool and is a sweet sugary berries long rubbery sweet taste big face sweating and chest beating uplifting high feeling.  Big inside strong intense high feeling.

6th is left to cool is a sweet rubbery sugar sweet taste with long sugary woody rubbery minutes long cooling sweet taste and profound mind high feeling almost jittery.  Mind melt and useless feeling.

7th I got back to flash steepings the next day… they are sweet with ashy woody berries sugar slight rubbery.  Long sweet rubbery aftertaste with cooling throat.

8th is a long thermos…

2025 Puerh.uk Yibi Single Tree

These were some tasting notes from last year when this puerh was particularly fresh… this evaluation sampling was done just after my last post published in 2025… this 2025 Puerh.uk YiBi Single Tree seems like it is no longer listed…

Dry leaves have a very candy like odour very sweet with subtle coco and icing sugar and forest… yummy 

First infusion has a bitter vibrant pop of fruity pungency. Lots of Forrest pungency and cool fresh breath.  Tingling and sticky mouthfeel.  Deep throaty saliva fruity.  Happy high feeling with as light and tingling.

Second infusion is a slippery sweet onset with pungent woody with some harder to grasp sweet banana but a full sticky stronger mouthfeel.  Chest lightness and limbs light with a happy feeling. Mouthfeel has a gripping sticky feeling that coats the mouth a down into the throat.

Third infusion is left to cool and is a pungent cooling forest with underlying lesser sweetness.  Full chalky sticky almost sandy mouthfeel.  Open chest and light limbs feeling and a mild happy mind.

Fourth infusion is left to cool and is a juicy fruity sugar onset with a cooling pungent forest woody taste that takes over with a sticky sandy full mouthfeeling. Chest and limbs feeling. Space out happy.

5th is a wet sticky not that sweet but with a pungent and foresty cooling taste.  Spacy and happy with light limbs and chest feeling.

6th is left to cool and is a pungent cooling forest taste with lesser back ground sweetness.  Sweet fruity aftertaste lingers on the breath. Mouthfeel is sticky sandy and full.

7th is a sweet flat fruity taste with a pungent cooling throat light limbs and happy mind.  Sticky sandy mouthfeeling.

8th is a long mug infusion and is pungent forest with a sweet sugary layer underneath. Mild happy feeling.

Peace

2021 Puerh.uk BangDong Xue Shan Single Ancient Tree

 This 2021 Puerh.uk BangDong Single Ancient Tree goes for approx $325.00 for 200g cake $1.62/g.  I’m a fan of BangDong and was really looking forward to this one so I saved the best for last…… 

Dry leaves have a sweet peachy almost orange and honey odour.  Yummy!

Rinsed leaves have a forest sweet orange candy.

First infusion has a clear creamy smooth sweet taste with an icing sugar taste.  Soft slow and slightly oily approach.  Body feeling swelling abomin light feeling with spacy Qi..

Second is a smooth clear candy sweet syrupy slight orange taste. Spacy Qi feeling with body tingling floating feeling with strong chesty heart beats.  

Third infusion is left to cool and is an icing sugar sweet smooth slightly oily viscous.  Sweet lingers in the mouth. Big bodyfeeling and qi feeling here. With big chest feeling body tingling and floating and expanding abdominal feeling.  Jaw loose face Qi is strong.  Lots of interesting body feeling really nice!

Fourth is a smooth sweet icing sugar with slight oily texture and slight cooling deep throat opening. Happy high spacy feeling with abdominal light swelling feeling like a floating abdomen.  Chesty Qi with heart beats.  Tingling face and jaw… lots of strong bodyfeeling.

Fifth is a stronger mouthfeel with deep throat opening nice cool deep thrust and icing sugar with faint peach oranges that are harder to grasp. Spacy strong high with lots of interesting bodyfeeling.  Big chest and abdomen Qi feeling.

6th has a woody bark fruity mild taste with a slight oily texture and sticky mouthfeel.  Spacy big qi sensations rule with bodyfeeling in face, chest and abdomen with light limbs feeling. Subtle woody spice taste lingers in the mouth.

7th pure light woody not that sweet broth.  Still some decently big Qi in there.

8th is a long mug steeping is bitter woody slight oily not much sweet taste just some in the finish like mild icing sugar.  Full sticky mouthfeel.  Cooling breath with deep throat open and lingering very faint icing sugar.

Tighter compression allows me to push it to an overnight mug steeping…it is an oily smooth tasting with icing sugar sweetness onset faint orange taste fades into a deep mild cooling throat opening with lingering sweet breath. 

Really nice BangDong! 

Peace