Okay so it’s not even Black Friday yet but some of the best
(or most popular) of the puerh cakes are gone!
The Essence of Tea has a tradition of re-releasing an
affordable aged/semiaged cake a few weeks before Black Friday. Past years they did this with the 2003
Hongkong Henry and last year with this Autumn Bang Wei. This year they did it again with the sale of
a newly discovered case of 2001 Mengsa Old Tree which has developed a frenzied
buzz for a puerh that is aged and punches way above its weight. The case sold out in light speed. I suspect The Essence of Tea will so (begrudgingly)
post a sale on their Instagram anytime now.
I gave you guys the heads up that if I buy anything Black
Friday it would likely be one of these cakes (2020 Tea Encounter Wan Gong GuoYouLin
or 2020 Tea Encounter GuaFengZhai Chaping Gushu). The sale went up a few days ago and I went to
sleep and when I woke these two were sold out!
I managed to pick up a cake of 2020 Tea Encounter GuaFengZhai Gushu
which was my favorite Tea Encounter brand puerh to date and a good price on a
nice Gua Feng Zhai puerh. It will be my
only Black Friday purchase this year.
White2tea just dropped their sale a day and a half earlier
than normal with two “limited edition” sheng.
The Tunji material was not up to Paul’s standard so he dropped the predicable
Snoozefest and a new blend called 2020 white2tea Supteaheads which is a blend
of aged materials. Interestingly, he did
not mention how many cakes he had for sale of each which is breaking tradition
a bit so we don’t really know how limited these cakes really are but I’m sure
they will sell out soon either way. White2tea’s
Black Friday promotion is rather subdued and tame this year with only 2 sheng
releases. I wonder why?
Yunnan Sourcing has been hitting us with multiple sales
emails for weeks now. Chrimson Lotus
sale is also up now too.
Most of the good higher end stuff being offered by Western
puerh venodrs has now sold out. Look at
this ranked list of 2019/2020 Yiwu GuoYouLin Gushu puerh I composed in the
summer. 5 of the 8 are now sold
out. If I was looking for some 2020/2019
higher end Yiwu gushu type puerh from a Western puerh vendor you could check
out TheEssence of Tea Yao Zhu Di productions of 2019 and 2020 (have not tried) which are pretty
enjoyable for their price. So is the 2020Tea Encounter GuoYouLin Wa Long. Both
of these productions are less per gram than the others on the list as well with
a sale.. they are even lower priced…
Ahhhh… Black Friday…. What’s not to like?
Peace
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