This season, we’re sending 2 raw puerh and 1 special oolong. We’re very lucky to find two raw puerh for our tea club. Both are newly harvested puerh from Yiwu, Yunnan.
The 2020 Yiwu Raw Puerh is a very energizing tea. It has some bitterness since it’s a very young raw puerh. But the bitterness is very slightly upfront and then it becomes more soft on the pallet. It brings up notes of mung beans and stone fruit, with a very clean sweet finish at the end. This tea is so interesting as a young raw puerh, and we believe it will develop more characters as it ages over them.
The other puerh is a 2020 Wild Yiwu Raw Puerh. This puerh is from the same year and same region as the previous one, but because it is “wild” tea, they are so different in character. “Wild” here means the tea plant has not been cultivated or domesticated by humans and used extensively, and it retains at the most primitive state. Compared to these two puerh, 2020 Yiwu Raw Puerh is like strolling through a botanical garden and 2020 Wild Yiwu Raw Puerh is like walking to wood in nature. This puerh is very bold as a young raw puerh, and it feels very focused and relaxed at the same time.
The third tea we put in the box is Formosa Oolong Special Reserve. This is a wonderfully aged tea from the early 2000's. Rich and mellow, the tea tastes strongly of sour plums, wildflower honey, and cloves. This aged tea is warming and gentle, and it is perfect to have during the colder months as we are getting into the Fall.