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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