Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Fangmingyuan: Hobbes Old Finds/ My Old Friends


Many years ago now our beloved puerh drinking chap, Hobbes of the famed The Half-Dipper blog, introduced us to a small outfit he visited while in Beijing, Fangmingyuan.  Actually, it was an old recommendation of Marshall'N.  Hobbes not only gave Fang Ming Yuan puerh the “thumbs up” but conveniently point us right to the Taobao vendor.  For those who read the Half-Dipper back then, Hobbes’ specialty was signaling out the good and cheap puerh.  Fangmingyuan, I believe fits this profile (see here, here, here, and here).

Back in 2011 I bought a bunch of this stuff through that direct contact.  The 2009 Fangmingyuan JingMai- I drank completely though that pleasant cake!  The 2008 Fangmingyuan Bama, is one of my favorite cakes.  My tea drinking pall in Victoria contacted me years back and told me that this one sells for many hundreds of dollars more than we modestly paid for it.  I have very little of this one left and have tried unsuccessfully to find something similar and cheap.

Then there is this 2008 Fangmingyuan Nannou which I just reviewed about a year ago although I have drank through a few of these cakes.  In that post I lamented, that the webstore was closed and I couldn’t re-order such acquired tastes… or could I?

Last week a packaged arrived at my door step from no other than my favorite sample pushing chap, Tiago (aka Curigane) of Tea Encounter.  The day before, I saw them go up on his site.   So before I even opened it, I knew what my destiny held in store for me…

Please join me in reviewing these Fangmingyuan in the next week here on this very blog.

Peace

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