2021 Puerh.uk Absolute King Lao Ban Zhang” Selected Trees

This was either a free sample with purchase of sample for review.  Puerh.uk “Absolute King” Lao BanZhang Selected Trees goes for $1080.00 for 200g cake or $5.40/g…. It’s one for sampling at that price.

Dry leaves have a sweet cherries and berries rich candy deep sweet odour.

Rinsed leaf has a muted forest sweetness.

First infusion has a clear watery onset with a deep emerging cherry which comes in a slow wave. Slow delicate but deliberate evolution in the throat and mouth.  First watery foresty almost ashy not really bitter then faint light forest dough deeper cherry light tastes. Chest flutters mind ease.

Second is a soft mild mossy feeling of forest with small bump of sticky not really gripping.  Faint distant berries sweet under dry bark woody.  Some interesting complex vegetables.  Flush face and mild out of body feeling.

Third infusion has a wet watery almost sweet wood bark taste.  Slight deep throat cooling mild moderate gripping mouth.  Cherries are mild and in a gob of saliva. Etherial feeling with some grip and mild flavours. 

4th infusion is wet woody bark with faint under sweetness mild/ moderate sticky dry gripping mouth.  Flush face.  Relaxing mild high.

5th is left to cool and is a bit sweeter like a subtle juicy sweet with breath of faint hard to grasp fading candy. Peaceful high with chest flutters.

6th is left to cool and is a faint sweet juicy.  Stronger chest Qi builds up big heart beats.  Uplifting.

7th is a long mug steeping… it is a creamy juicy with peach notes coming out in the aftertaste.  Strong chesty feeling but mind is peaceful calming high.  

Peace

2024 Puerh.uk “Gold Mark Beyond BanZhang” Ancient

This 2024 Puerh.uk Gold Mark Beyond BanZhang goes for approx $215.00 for 200g cake or $1.10/g. I sampled this one yesterday. It was a free gift for review- thank you.

 Dry leaves have a sweet sugar forest with deeper lingering candy odour.  The long candy smell is mouthwatering.

Rinsed leaf has strong mouthwatering candy. 

First infusion has a brassy forest onset with oily full sweetness candy that pops with cooling throat and vibrant Forest candy finish.  Mouthwatering effect beautiful evolution.  Minutes later vibrant candy with sticky stimulating mouthfeel.

Second infusion has a sweet forest vibrant almost buttery forest candy pop! Strong heart pumping and euphoria energy uprising and simultaneously deeper relaxing.  Sticky mouthfeel with long sweetness.

3rd has a watery sweet first candy pop and sticky almost gripping mouthfeel with long candy finish.  Chest beats and euphoria waves.  

4th is a silky creamy sweet candy pop with a sticky almost but not gripping mouthfeel that produces a lot candy aftertaste effect. Alerting euphoria.

5th infusion is a creamy candy forest pop with full mouthfeel and mild gripping with return of sweet candy. Face flushing. 

6th infusion has a woody getting bitter taste with a sweetness that is behind these tastes. Chest beats and less intense energy euphoria now.

7th is a watery woody not that sweet anymore still significant chest chest beats and face flush and mild euphoria now… time for the long mug steeping….

8th is long mugging… and is a bitter woody sweet sugar almost candy with moderate gripping mouthfeel. Strong chest beating.  

This one nicely invigorated me, it’s what I needed.

Peace

2021 Puerh.uk YouLe ManKong Ancient

I did an evaluation sampling of this free sample from Puerh.uk yesterday.  This 2021 Puerh.uk YouLe ManKong Ancient Small Leaf goes for approx $300.00 for 200g cake or $1.50/g.

Dry leaves have an almond nutty sweetness with sweet penetrating sugar odour, distant wildflowers. 

Rinsed leaves have a sweet grain cereal odour.

First infusion has a creamy milky sweetness distant nutty with an oily viscus texture.  Cooling mouth lingering with strawberry milk sweet aftertaste.

Second infusion has a sweet nutty milky taste very oily and viscus texture. Longer lingering sweet taste sort of milky strawberry.  Flavour and slight sticky sandy mouthfeel more on the tongue they thrust with faint opening.

Third infusion is an oily very viscus sort of milky with faint strawberries taste. Mouth flavours linger with sandy tongue coating.  Mild peaceful feeling I. The mind with mild mind clearity.

4th is left to cool and is quite sweet with a sugar candy strawberries.  Wet oily mouth coating with slight sticky sandy layers. Mild cooling strawberries on breath. Mild comfortable Qi.

5th is watery sweet sugar and strawberries mild taste with wet mouthfeel and sandy tongue. Mild Qi comfortable feeling.

6th is left to cool and is a watery oily wet with mild strawberries sugar sweet.  Mild feeling, mild taste, thick oily wet mouthfeel.

7th is put into a long mug steeping and comes out wet, woody, slightly oily sweet.  Mild easy comfortable puerh.

The leftover of the mug steeping the next day is very oily viscus with light sweet taste.

Peace

2022 Gold Mark TianMenShan Tall Ancient Trees

I just sampled this one this afternoon it’s my first evaluation puerh sample in many months…

This 2022 puerh.uk Gold Mark TianMenShan goes for approx for$215.00 for 200g cake $1.07/g …. It’s a really nice TianMenShan for the price …

The dry leaves smell of very sweet candy and forest sort of pine forest odour.  Lots of layers of sweetness.

First infusion has a very clear light soft taste. Pungent first then long sweet mild taste.  With spicy almost peppermint camphor cooling is so faint. Refreshing with sticky mouth coating and cool deep gentle throat opening.

Second is a wet camphor lightly sweet evolving. There is this mild low lying minty pungent forest that evolves in the throat.  Mild peaceful floating.  Head swelling.

Third has a cool mild watery sweet pungent with sticky full mouthfeel.  Sweet deep mild throat evolution.  Peaceful gloating feeling.

Fourth has a mild watery forest sticky mouthfeel deep throat opening with camphor.  Chest opening feeling.  Slow forest sweet candy opening in the throat long candy breath. Chest bubbling and energy emitting.

Fifth has a sticky full mouthfeel with deep thrust opening with candy.  Candy taste is mild distinct and long on the breath.  Big chest beats with chesty bodyfeeling and peaceful space out. Stronger deep building euphoria.

6th has a woody forest bark taste with sticky full mouthfeel that deep throat opening with woody forest mild lesser sweetness.

7th has a watery woody taste that has a long deep candy sweet finish.  Almost like bubble gum taste.  Long bubblegum breath finish.  Big chest bodyfeeling a mind uplifting euphoria.  

8th is a long mug steeping… and it has a very sweet candy very pear taste.  Oily watery mouthfeel with deep oily throat long evolving candy.  Big swelling chest and euphoric peace.

This is a very very nice Tianmenshan!

Peace

2025 Puerh.uk XiNiuTang Single Ancient

 This Puerh.uk XiNiuTang Single Tree is one of those astronomically priced things that are more for sampling than whole cake purchase…. But I got this sample free for review… it was the last sample I had before I dropped of posting so I’d like to post it now…

Dry leaves are super candy sweet with a penetrating sweet candy forest odour.

Rinsed leaves

First infusion has a soft candy chalky fluffy taste that is a bit roasted notes and mainly creamy chalky creamy taste and texture very smooth and sweet with subtle forest notes.

Second is left to cool and is a sweet banana pure fluffy chalky smooth sweet creamy smooth fade out taste. Face has mild numbness and happy feeling.

Third infusion is a soft sweet melon creamy smooth soft chalky fluffy mouthfeel.  Face qi and relaxing feeling.

Fourth infusion is left to cool and has a very sweet oily creamy candy taste really smooth with a taste that fades away.  

5th infusion has a creamy melon sweet pure taste with fade out creamy sweet melon. Happy relaxing and mild face qi.

6th infusion has fruity slight woody creamy sweet fade out with some chest and face qi with a relaxing ease.

7th is a long mug infusion and is a sweet sugary and fruity very bright sweet taste.  With a mild bitterness throughout.  Happy feeling qi.

Peace

Jagasilk Yabukita Okuda by the Fujioka Family

 Yabukita Okuda by the Fujioka Family goes for $53.00 CND for 20g tin or $2.65/g.  It is currently not available for purchase.

This is my first time having matcha from the Wada region.  I’ll need to try more from this region to get a feel for it but so far I find it very enjoyable with this one…

Dry powder is deep with savory notes and more subtle sweetness.

Savory oily nutty vegital.  More savory and flavour and thick chalky almost fizzy mouthfeel.  Sweetness is behind the salty/savoury.  Salty taste of sea air or seaweed.  Fresh cut grass, tree branch or weedy floral.  Nice layered tastes.

The complexity of taste and mouthfeel is interesting and the flavours last long in the mouth thanks to the solid mouthfeel.

Uplifting feeling.

Peace

Jagasilk Samidori by the Fujioka Family

Jagasilk Samidori by the Fujioka Family goes for $79.00 CND or $3.95/g.

The dry powder has a leafy grassy strong vegetal odour with slight nutty and distant floral. 

The taste is stronger up front vegetal taste with olive oils with a distant nutty lesser sweet taste. The finish becomes slightly bitter and mildly astringent. Mild happy feeling.

Peace