I rarely bother with proper tea reviews and I try a great many teas that I don't bother posting about. Mostly it's a matter of not being able to extract sufficient comic relief to balance out the ho-hum nature of a tea. Sometimes even good teas I don't write about as I can't seem to find an interesting angle worthwhile to the reader.
Please note most of these tasting notes are not meant to be used as a buying guide of any sort as most of them I have personally found them somewhat lacking due to the peculiarities of my own palate.
(I'll try to put forth more effort to catalog the rest as I find time...)
Aged Sheng (I'll currently put this anything 2002 and before)
- 50s Hun Yin, 60s Bazhong...
- 50s Vintage Sheng from Samovar
- Some unknown aged tasted in Jejudo
- 20yr 8582 - good tea
- 90s random CNNP brick
- 90s Tongchang Huangji - just drinkable
- 90s XG Frist Grade Tuo - probably a frist fake
- 1996 XG Butterfly Tuo - dry and boring
- 1997 Hengli Chang - bitter tea dragging around in fuzzy slippers
- 1998 Tiepai Yiwu
- 1998 7542 Menghai - good tea
- 1998 7542 Fake - no satisfaction
- 2000 Fuhai Yiwu Yesheng Cha - pretty good tea
- 2000 Yiwu Zhengshan
- 2000 Zhongcha Red Seal - dry stored and nuthin' special
- 2001 Jin Chang Hao Yiwu - pretty good
- 2001 Dingxing (ps) - better after a year of airing out
- 2001 Yiwu 1000 Years Wild Round
- 2001 7542
- 2002 White Whale -bitter and dank
- 1990 Menghai 8972 - dry and dreadful
Young Sheng or Not Quite Aged- 03 Fengqing Zodiac
- 03 Bada
- 03 Dadugang Eibora Mansa - if you like 'em tepid and weak
- 04 Tong Chang Huang Ji Yiwu
- 04 Changtai 401 Brick
- 04 Smoky Youle - pending...
- 05 Menghai Anniversary Beeng 2kg
- 05 Yiwu Bamboo - easy all around
- 05 Changtai Yi Chang Hao Yiwu - not bad for $7
- 05 DeHong Wild Tree Purple Leaf
- 05 XG Ancient Wild Tree
- 06 Mengku Gu Hua -Weak Assed Tea
- 06 CGHT Menghai Yieh Sheng
- 2010 HLH Yiwu Cha Wang's Consort
- Mr. Gao's Yi Bang from Tea Urchin - not bad for an autumnal production
- 2011 Jin Dayi - stomach ripper par excellence
- 2012 YS Yiwu Purple Tea
- 90s Zhongcha Red Label and 90's 7581 brick
- 2000 Mystery Brick From The Past
- 05 CNNP 7581 Brick vs. 07 Menghai Adorned in Red
- 7452 601 vs 901 Red Ribbon Party - better of the Menghai
- 06 Zhai Zi Po Ripe
- 06 De Hong High Plateau
- 06 Lucky 7581 (now moldy)
- 2009 YS Lao Cha Tou - the only shu I want to hoard
- 2011 Haiwan LTZ Gold Brick
- 2012 Menghai Golden Needle White Lotus
- Numi's Organic Puerh From 500 Year Old Trees - so atrocious no words will do justice
- Verdant Tea - new low for compost shu
- 2000 Fake Dayi - why I burn money like this..
- 2009 CNNP Lao Cha Tou - it's on this list, enough said.
- Aged Tung Ting Oolong
- North Korean Azalea Tea- North Korean Tea to Make the Dear Leader Proud
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