2015 Puerist Yiwu #1 (Man Sa)

 I got this complimentary sample for review from Puerist.  I mentioned before that the Yiwu Numbers cakes from Puerist simply are numbering different secret forest areas they are not a ranking. I have posted on Yiwu #8 in the past.  This 2015 Puerist Yiwu #1 ($87.00 for 200g cake or $0.44/g) is from the Mansa area according to the description on the site.  This is the first of a handful of posts on some of the Puerist samples I received and consumed over the Spring and Summer.  I drank this one right after the 2017 Puerh.uk Mansa to compare…

Dry leaf has muted flowery sweet woody odours on this one.

First infusion had a smooth woody clear watery taste.  There is a soft almost peachy distant ghostly finish.  Soft watery woody fruity muted taste over a soft mossy coating.

The second infusion has a clear peachy spacious taste with a fade out into the aftertaste with a pop of initial woody peachy taste then a fade out with faint cool breath.  The Qi pools in the chest and the mind unwinds.  Dry lips hold icing sugar taste.  

The third is left to cool and gives off a smooth oily peachy taste.  Long elegant motion into a melon fruity returning finish with nice oily texture cool breath and mid-deep throat opening.  Spacy mind unwinding feeling with subtle chest opening. 

4^th has a woody melon creamy sweet onset with a pop of creamy sweetness then a returning wave of melon under the creamy sweetness a bit of woodiness.  Elegant motion of taste here… mainly sweet taste with a bit of dry lips and edges of tongue.  Very spacy relaxing feel.  Strong Gushu feel to this one.

5^th has a woody peachy creamy sweet pop of oily taste then returns with melon creamy sweetness. There are edges of elegant coco that appear in the aftertaste and mid body that add another layer to the taste.  Chest opening with some slow beats and deep sighs.

6^th infusion has a peachy almost ashy woody onset with a fainter melon with a layer of elegant clear coco taste.  Nice Chest opening feeling and strong euphoria in mind.  

7^th has a peachy ashy woody coco almost dirt like taste with some faint melon and coco returning taste.  There is a woody dirt coco nuance that is developing here.  The mouthfeeling is a bit sandy and chalky but mainly a soft mossy coating with dry lips edges.  Open Chest and uplifting euphoria.  

8^th infusion has a slightly bitter woody dirt ashy coco sort of taste to it with a cooling breath and returning melon creamy woody.  There is a mild amount of pucker here.  Strong euphoria mind ease with open chest feeling and body melting feeling qi- feels really good.

9^th has a woody fruity peachy dirt ash woody cooc mild bitter onset with an oily texture and dry lips edges mid- deep open throat.

10^th has a woody dirt coco flat woody bitterness that give the mouth a bit of drying and a bit of bitterness.  It dries the lips a bit.  With a bit of fruity pop initially over the bitter woody and a bit of cooling melon over the dry woody in the finish…

I steep a few more the next day…

11^th is left to cool and has a fruity peachy melon onset with a long creamy melon finish.  Fresh and surprisingly vibrant fruity sweet tastes in a mild mossy tongue coating.

12^th has a woody peachy melon sweetness.  Clear fresh vibrant fruity tastes today this far into the session.  Mossy mouthcoating.  Unwinding mind space. 

13^th has a juicy fresh melon and peachy vibrant sweetness there is a faint ghostly woody body. Clear fruity gushu like feel and taste.  Mossy mild mouthfeeling.  

I mug steep out the rest of the spent leaves and it gives off a juicy minty melon taste that is pretty oily but also a bit drying in the mouth. 

Vs 2017 Puerh.uk Mansa (pictured above) which is also quite juicy and a bit more drying in this long mug infusion… This 2015 Puerist Yiwu #1 is much more gushu in its pure feeling and taste and Qi. The puerh.uk is a bit rough and not as clearly gushu to me.  However the punchiness of the puerh.uk is super enjoyable a balance of punchiness mixed in to give it more variance. This Puerist has a very deep Gushu Qi to it which I quite like- I like the price too!

Peace