Introduction to Puerist… Who?

Who?

Puerist…

Why is there almost nothing about this Western puerh vendor on the internet?  Google “Puerist” and see what comes up.  No reviews, no social media, no marketing, no nothing…. So mysterious… So unlike the way puerh vendors operate in the West.  Yet so intriguing…

I somehow found Puerist a few years ago but was unsure if it was legit because of the lack of info out there.  At the time a 2018 Puerist Wa Long GuoYouLin(State Forest) caught my interest… more on that one later.  The only thing that is stated definitively in the public internet about Puerist and his puerh teas beside his Etsy shop and puerh consulting company was a pretty positive lone public comment by Shah8.  Even Mark Turner’s Instagram is not really marketing his puerh.  So I was simply left wondering.  Until recently, when commenter twt_reddit out of the blue recommended trying theabove 2018 Purist Wa Long GuoYouLin.So of course I had to try it.

I picked up a few blindly and we will see how that is going to go down later… but it opened a bit of a door and communication with the quirky but super pleasant owner, Mark Turner.   He ended up sending me a bunch of free samples that I intend to post here on the blog so we can all get to know a little more about Purist.  Sounds alright?

It turns out Mark is an interesting and ultra-knowledgeable guy.  He has some great simple English info at the bottom of his Etsy site about puerh tea that I’ve never seen so simply stated before.  His blog also has very simply stated and super informative information on puerh tea.  He is specialized in offering puerh from the Nannou area but offers many other single mountain sheng from other areas as well.  He has been around the puerh scene for a long time and even offered early advice and consulting to Eugene and Belle of TeaUrchin in 2011 when they were just starting out.  

Basically, he really really knows his puerh but strangly almost no Western puerh drinkers know him or Puerist.  But like most English vendors he is pretty quirky too!  He was really quite hesitant in sending me purchased blind cakes and was even more hesitant in me publishing my tastings… but here were are and its going to happen… 

Peace