2003 CNNP "Yi Wu Old Tree Round Cake" Raw Aged Pu-erh tea cake

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2003 CNNP "Yi Wu Old Tree Round Cake" Raw Aged Pu-erh tea cake
2003 CNNP "Yi Wu Old Tree Round Cake" Raw Aged Pu-erh tea cake 2003 CNNP "Yi Wu Old Tree Round Cake" Raw Aged Pu-erh tea cake 2003 CNNP "Yi Wu Old Tree Round Cake" Raw Aged Pu-erh tea cake
2003 CNNP "Yi Wu Old Tree Round Cake" Raw Aged Pu-erh tea cake 2003 CNNP "Yi Wu Old Tree Round Cake" Raw Aged Pu-erh tea cake

Category: Pu-erh

Country: China

Province: Yunnan

Harvest: spring 2003

Producer: CNNP

Shop: Yunnan Sourcing

Yunnan Sourcing

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Description:

Probably a small tea factory in Yi Wu area pressed this cake under the "zhong cha" label in 2003. Entirely spring 2013 Yi Wu mountain material. Stored in Jing Hong until 2012 when it was purchased by Yunnan Sourcing and brought to Kunming. Nice balanced traditional (wetter) storage. Nicely aged but without any moldy or off smells. Camphor and delicate aromas when brewed. Sweet thick tea soup. An enjoyable tropical stored tea!


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sypalino
08.08.2013 11:10:55

2003 CNNP Yi Wu Old Tree Round Cake

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According to the seller it is a wet stored tea and really, when you open the bag with the sample you can smell strong earthiness fading away. Leaves smell intensely sweetly and earthy after rinsing. The brew is dark brown (like wild honey), pleasant sweet taste, you can feel slight maturity (camphor), earthiness is surprisingly very lightly in the background. Infusions are quite full, the tastiest were 3rd and 4th one, but even then the taste is very good and full bodied. You can feel a cooling effect in the mouth, generally the tea had an easing effect on me. It is an interesting tea that is certainly worth at least trying.

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„tong; 筒 - Literally a barrel or barrel shaped object. A tong in Yunnan tea culture is a bundle of 7 tea cakes wrapped in the outer skin of bamboo which naturally sheds from around the base of the bamboo stem. Each cake weighs 357grams so making a total of 2,499 gm. Said by some to have been calculated in order to remain under a specific legislated weight of 2.5 kg. There were originally said to be 8 cakes in a tong. The 8th being paid as a levy. An earlier unit of weight in China was the liang. A cake of tea weighed 7 liang and 7 cakes in a tong made 49 liang. “

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Source Web: Zhi Zheng Tea Shop. Puer Tea Glossary[online]. Available on WWW: <http://www.zhizhengtea.com/>. [q637] [s78]





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The art of making tea from ancient tea trees is very old. Hand-roasting is not easily mastered. Any slight error will influence the taste of the tea. Smokiness or yan wei is one example but it should be distinguished from a burned flavour which is described as hu wei. The latter, typically arises when tea is not well roasted and is, unfortunately, not uncommon. Yan wei or smokiness is caused by oven drying. “

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