Budget Recommendation: 2026 Tea Encounter Yiwu Guafengzhai

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2026 Tea Encounter Lengshuihe

This 2026 Tea Encounter LengHeShui goes for approx $444.00 for 200g or $2.22/g 

Dry leaves are a spicy warming almost beef jerky Laos odour.

Rinsed leaves have a deep dreary gamey sweet floral.  Again smell like Laos puerh.

First infusion is a sweet smooth gamy moves quickly and that melts into icing sugar sweet wet mouthfeel faint juicy almost front under sweet icing sugar sweet taste.  Elegant and evolving sweetness. Sugar return sweetness is really nice and happy swelling chest and mind qi feels good.

Second infusion has a fruity faint fade gamy barnyard and a viscus texture and evolving strong sweet icing sugar evolution and cool breath.  Happy swelling expansion. Cooled down it is a sugary sweet smooth with faint gamy barnyard and cooling throat aftertaste.  Body tingling and swelling light floating chest feeling.  Spaced out feeling.  Qi feels so good.

Third infusion has an icing sugar sweet sugary onset in a smooth wet slightly viscus broth.  Mild gamy barnyard.  Some melon fruity pokes through the base flavours. Floating light chest feeling. Sweet layered evolution sugar to icing sugar to melon to more creamy icing sugar.  Smooth wet viscus full powdery mouth coating.  Floating bodyfeeling and mind float too.

Fourth has a woody sweet slight dry mouth feel sugar sweet throughout and long sweetness that picks up some juicier melon notes mid profile.  Very delicious creamy layered evolving sweet taste with super relaxing floating feeling. So good!!!

5th is left to cool and starts with a creamy gamy onset… the mouthfeel is powdery and texture is viscous the result is excellent with a cooling throat after taste and long lingering very sweet taste.  Very high from this puerh now and trying to work at my job here… hahaha…. Ok body and mind max floating relax!

6th is a sweet creamy complex smooth like snow on the tongue icing sugar sweet taste.  Powdery mouthfeel with slight viscous and cooling lingering throat lots of tongue emerging sweet taste.  Happy high feeling and body floatong. Cooled down it is more sugary and fluffy and melon and long sweet.  Powdery cloud candy sweetness.

7th is a creamy sweet melon powerfully fluffy cooling throat sticky mild mouthfeel cooling opening throat.  Happy high feeling with body floating effect.

8th is a creamy sugary woody. Powdery full mouthfeel with high stoned feel and chest fluttering with light body. 

9th is left to cool and is a sweet fruity sugar oily very viscus with cool throat and return of long fluffy full sweetness and floating Qi.

10th is an overnight mug steeping and it is very sweet with icing sugar and melon sweet taste some faint rubbery vegital notes and cooling menthol almost medicinal sort of gamy barnyard mild bitterness in there as well.  Spacy peace out high!

Vs 2025 Tea Encounter Guafengzhai LengShuiHe…

I drink these back to back and the dry leaves smell much more sweet and floral very delicious…

Rinsed leaves have a bubble gum candy sweetness.

First infusion is a clear watery melon sugar fruity more subtle and less dense than 2026.  Cooling mid throat powdery coating. Nice evolution of subtle sweet taste but more watery and mild than 2026. Tingling body feel in shoulders and face.  Mild chest fluttering. Wet mouth.

Second infusion is sweet watery wet with lime woody sugar onset.  Soft powdery mouthfeel with chest fluttering and peaceful feeling. Refreshing lime melon is mild with faint woody and sticky powdery mouthfeel.  Lightness expands from the chest with a peaceful feeling.  

The third is left to cool and is a delicious creamy milky sugar deep caramelized sugar and melon. Tastes of French dessert Creme Brûlée mouthwatering wet mouthfeel juicy sweet taste.  Very taste flavourful dessert taste.  Happy peaceful feeling with face and shoulder tingling. 

Fourth is a sweet creamy powdery sugary onset with evolution of sweet taste.  Wet mouthfeel with smooth sweet evolving taste. Mild chest feel and peaceful feeling. Delicious taste.  Cooled down it has a long fluffy melon juicy sugary almost Crème Brûlée taste- custard delicious.  

5th has a creamy oily fruity sugary onset nice soft juicy mouthwatering sweet long taste. Mouthwatering taste pops in mouth long juicy viscus sweetness with happy peaceful feeling. Taste is not as deep or long and mouthfeel not as full nor Qi as deep nor as powerful as the 2026. But overall quite similar but less than.

6th is a sweet juicy creamy melon custard mouthwatering taste with full powdery taste.  Cooling throat with return of sweet evolution to sugars in the mouth.  Mild happy expanding or fluffy chest feeling and soft happy feeling mild spacing out feeling qi.

7th is a creamy watery sweet taste with faint almost woody and creamy taste. Long sweet taste somewhat but less custard with cooling breath long taste with faint chest fluttering and open chest with mold peaceful high.

8th is left to cool and is sweet melon soft cool throat long sweet taste happy vibes. Long evolving sweet taste chest flutters and some mild face and shoulders tingling. 

Peace

2026 Tea Encounter TianMenShan Gushu

This 2026 TianMenShan gors for $158.00 for 200g or $0.79/g.

Dry leaves are a sweet pungent piercing floral forest odour.

Rinsed leaves have a smooth vegital creamy icing sugar odour.

First infusion has a spicy watery mild sweet clear pure taste.  Soft mouthfeel with wet mouth a saliva producing effect and melon fruity sweetness develops and pools in the saliva it transforms into sugar on the breath.  Silky texture.

Second is a tropical fruity banana creamy sweetness with a silky textured approach. Evolution of sweetness from tropical fruity to creamy sweet to sugar then to melon.  Some cooling menthol breath.  Wet mouth with creamy custard like mouthfeeling and long evolving sweetness develops taste.  Mild chest fluttering and comfortable bodyfeeling.  Mind peace out floating.

Third infusion has a watery wet tropical fruity onset that turns to a lime/ orange creamy sweetness taste then into sugar and to a melon. Nice long evolving sweetness develops taste here! The mouthfeel is wet chalky and velvety and sticky mild throat opening and coolness. Peaced out feeling with mild face qi and comfortable bodyfeeling.

Fourth infusion has a juicy fruity tropical fruity slight citrus. With thick silky texture and mild mid bitterness with juicy fruity evolution of sweet long taste. Arms tingling and face too.  Peace out relaxing vibes.  Sticky chalky mouthfeel.  Floating peace out Qi.  Saliva producing mid throat feeling.

5th has a juicy creamy/chalky fruity taste there is some sugar and melon finish but it’s less sweet than previous infusions. The mouthfeel is stick almost gripping dry but not quite with a woody faintness.  Peaceful feeling.

6th is left to cool and is a sweet juicy pear sugar melon with sticky sandy mouthfeel and mild bitter slight dry gripping. Peaceful feeling with some faint tingling and chest lightness.

7th has a jucy fruity woody onset with the long evolving sweetness coalescing into more of a single dense note and being balanced with a drier woody mildly bitter note. Peaceful happy peaceful float. 

8th Cooled down is more creamy sugars come out. There is a denser juicer taste developing.  Spacy feeling and sighs.

9th infusion is left to cool and is a sweet sugar almost juicy fruity sweet counterbalanced by a slight dry wood bitter.  Long faint sweetness aftertaste.  Peaceful and slight floating.

10th is a long 40 minutes mug steeping and is a chalky fruity woody ashy with slight throat drying and mild gripping bitter.  Mid throat long mild cooling with lime citrus sour and chest opening light feeling and peaceful relaxing high feeling.   Lots of dense flavours still.

Again, great puerh with lots of stamina for its price…

Peace

2026 Tea Encounter WanGong

 This 2026 Tea Encounter Wangong goes for $283.00 for 200g or $1.42/g….. This was the third day of mind blowing samples from Tea Encounter’s 2026 line…

Dry leaves are a candy icing sugar like fresh forest odour.  Very vibrantly sweet almost cherry as well.mouthwatering…

Rinsed leaves have strong sugar creamy notes.

First infusion has a watery sweet sugar onset with melon candy notes linging in the mouth there is a moderately deep cooling throat and chalky mouthfeel. Spacy high feeling.chest flutters.  Long lingering sweet taste. 

Second infusion has a sweet candy sugar pop then that movies to a slight bitter taste creamy and milky almost pastery sweet evolution. Happy uplifting spacy feeling.  Chest flutters and face tingling.  Very nice sweet evolutions of sweetness. With a chalky mouthfeel. Very nice!

Third infusion has a very sweet juicy sugar candy fruity pop mouthwatering with a quick mild bitter mouth salivating with wet chalky creamy mouthfeel. Moderatly deep thrust cooling long evolving sweet taste.  Happy euphoria with face tinging and chest flutters.  Such a nice experience here! Very delicious and full taste experience with high grade Qi!

Fourth infusion is a fruity sugar chalky thick pop with a quick bitterness then long evolving melon fruity sugar pastry sweetness. Chest fluttering face tingling.  

5th is left to cool and has a peachy melon candy sugar pop onset with fast moving bitter and more of a bready pastry finish.  Spacy happy high with face tingling and numbness.  Chest fluttering feeling.

6th has a sweet onset with melon peach sugar some ashy taste mildly bitter. Long sweet sugar pastry taste.  Chalky full feeling in mouth mid throat cooling that lingers in the throat.  Chest fluttering face numb and happy euphoria.

7th is left to cool and is a sweet juicy fruity taste with ashy mild bitter and long sweet finish with mid throat opening and full chalky mouthfeel.  Happy floating euphoria. Soft full tongue coat.  Happy high. Mild chest fluttering with face Qi.

8th infusion is a creamy fruity sweet sugar pop with mild bitterness that is quick mid-profile and it leaves a sugary full chalky taste in the mouth with chest flutters and numb face.  Slight sweet cereal aftertaste. Long sweet evolution of taste.  Nice qi feeling for me!

9th is a sweet fruity sugar with mild quick moving bitter which induces salivation.  Long sweet finish with lingering cool mud throat and long sweet aftertaste.  Very nice even in later infusions. 

10is an overnight mug steeping and it is a sweet oily juicy fruity taste with an ashy oily texture very mild background bitterness and ashy taste. There is still lots of chest fluttering and sugary candy long taste under the initial fruity taste and fast chalky bitterness.  

I like this puerh a lot!

Peace

2026 Tea Encounter HeBian

 2026 Tea Encounter HeBian Goes for $155.00 for 250g or  $0.62/g.  This was the second sample of Tea Encounter’s 2026 line up that I sampled and I also sampled it blind…

The dry leaves are a deep cherry rich forest sweet odour smells like Walong/ ManZhuan with more of a MengHai  area feel sort of in notes richness but not as sweet sort of wild smelling.

Rinsed leaves have a deep rich fruity odour with creamy sweet odours and strawberry cherries…, so mouthwatering!

First infusion has very faint smoke full juicy strawberries fruity taste.  Nice fine tobacco tastes.  Full mouth tongue sticky with big chesty warming Qi.  It has a Manghai feeling but not …. It’s familiar to me but hard for me to place.

2nd has a tobacco sweet taste with mouthwatering sticky mouth.  Strawberries finish.  Big chest feeling with sticky mouth.  Juicy fruity feeling underneath with a big warming chesty feeling.

3rd is left to cool and is a sweet icing sugar with mouthwatering sweetness.  Some woody bark and lingering breath sweetness. Big chest expanding with chest beats lots of ashy chalky melon woody. Lots of energy! 

4th is a melon ashy chalky woody onset with sweet emerging melon underneath wood bark taste. Slight sandy dry roof of mouth. Big Qi swells in the chest with large heart palpitations and big qi energy.

5th is a mildly bitter with sticky slight mouth pucker.  Emerging sweet melon.  There is a spice onset with lingering long bitter now. Big chest Qi where Qi is mainly pooling.  Energetic boost.

6th is a sweet ashy woody bitter with warming qi mild face rush and big energy feeling.  Full long moderate bitterness with mouth puckering.  Chest Qi!

7th has a bitter woody onset with melon sweet taste under moderate strong long bitter taste.  Energy boost!  

8th is left to cool and is spice and sweet melon taste with full sticky taste with melon underneath.

9th is an overnight mug steeping and it is metallic and ashy with an oily juicy melon and flat background menthol.  Deeper richer notes with sweet light fruity melon and deeper menthol metalic ashy… complex feeling as if Yiwu was Menghai!  … big chest beats and out of body with body floating bodyfeeling.  

Turns out this puerh is from Laos and soon as I checked the website I thought “Of course!”  I liked this tea quite a bit especially for its price!

Edit: I did drink the remainder of the sample and it’s a really nice feeling puerh…. I’m still thinking of this tea…

Peace

2026 Tea Encounter Daheishan

This 2026 Tea Encounter DaHeiShan goes for $458.00 for 200g or $2.29/g…. This was the first of Tea Encounts 2026 line up that I sampled… I actually sampled this one blindly without looking at the label and it sort of blew my mind!

 Dry leaves have a sweet foresty almost candy but a deeper liquorice sweet odour.

Rinsed leaves have a foresty mineral wildflowers deeper melon odour.

First infusion has a watery melon mineral complex but subtle taste. Forest almost lime, strawberries… subtle but very delicious with a sticky mouthfeel.  Complex and refreshing with deep cooling throat.  Deep mind lifting qi with spacy out feel.  Shoulders heavy qi with face numb...

Second infusion is left to cool and is a sweet melon honey which is viscus and moutjwztering with deep wilderglowet and candy melon complex deep pure tastes sticky mouthfeel and deep cooling throat. Profound high spacy feeling floating mond but simultaneously energetic and uplifting. Face and shoulders and chest Qi! GuaFengZhi Qi patterns?

Third is a sweet pop with quick mild subtle bitterness with a spice taste and wild floral deep throst opening and cooling with sweet melon aftertaste.  Slight sticky full feeling but saliva producing effect.  Chest face and shoulders Qi bodyfeeling. Head spacy but rejuvenating uplifting energy. Chest beats.

4th has a spicy warm spice onset with sweet almost pastry taste cooling opening deep thrust with long cooling and melon. The warming spice taste holds through the whole profile. Big qi feeling and uplifting energies. Big clear thoughts and energy zoom!

5th is a sweet spicy very mildly quick moving bitter with a wet tongue and also a priding with deep throst cooling and longer fade out sweet melon aftertaste. Spicy warm taste stays throughout.  Sticky almost sandy mild tongue now. Rejuvenated feeling big chest beats bring big qi energy. Aftertaste is lime taste minutes later. 

6th has a bitter warming spice with more gripping mouth now.  Still some saliva producing with sticky pucker. Big chest Qi more energetic now with big heart beasts and less space out floating… it has evolved into a stronger tea!

7th is left to cool and is a bitter sweet moderate mouth puckering sticky feeling with melon finish.  Big energy Qi boost!  Good stamina. Bigger feeling than GuaFengZhai…

8th is left to cool down for hours and is a sweet wildflower almost chicory broth.  Cooling breath and sticky full mouthfeel. Still strong Qi in there.

9th is a long overnight mug steeping and it is sweet melon with icing sugar edges.  Full sticky mouthfeel but not pucker nor bitter.  Big chest Qi still with happy uplifting and face and shoulders Qi.

Peace

Tea Encounter’s 2026 Line Up

 Out of all my tea drinking and evaluating in a year I am most excited about these fresh 2026 puerh!

I have been sampling fresh puerh from Tea Encounter since their inception and it’s always on of my highlights of the year! This year more so because I was left contemplating if this is their best offering of teas yet… and I believe it is…

Please join me for my annual dive into Tea Encounters 2026 puerh line up!

Peace