Bitterleaf Reserve – Windfall 2016 Fall Guafengzhai Raw Puer
$149.00
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Description
Similar to our 2016 Mint Condition, this tea presented a great value that we just couldn’t pass up. Using fall Guafengzhai (Chawangshu) material, there was an incredible fragrance and pleasantly sweet profile from the start.
This hasn’t let up, as 10 years later it still has a sugary sweetness in line with high end Yiwu teas, but with a smooth character.
Availability: 13 x 200g cakes
Our Reserve teas consist of our very earliest puer pressings and releases, ranging from a minimum of 10 years up to 20 years in age.
Availability is limited, with only 1 or 2 cakes available in some cases. If you ever lamented letting one of these slip by, then this is your last chance to pick it up (with an extra decade of age on it).
Each of these teas has remained in dry storage conditions in Kunming since day 1. This style of storage yields slower development than more humid regions, however, “dry” is largely used relative to more traditional storage locations (eg: Hong Kong, Guangdong, Malaysia, etc). With humidity in our primary storage ranging from 55-75% (depending on season), it’s not exactly a desert.
For our taste, this storage strikes a good balance between development into a smoother/sweeter tea, safety in terms of mold risks, and retaining the tea’s original character.
Upon receiving these cakes, we recommend letting them adjust after travel and reaching a new environment by “waking them up”. This can be done by storing them in a clay jar (Jianshui clay is often suitable) for 2 weeks or so, and/or introducing stable humidity with the use of a Boveda pack (no more than 72%).
Additional information
| Weight | 200 g |
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1 review for Bitterleaf Reserve – Windfall 2016 Fall Guafengzhai Raw Puer
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DKB (verified owner) –
I had really high hopes for this tea, but I found it disappointing. I’m a huge fan of Yiwu (and especially Chawangshu) teas of all ages, but this one didn’t have the characteristic qualities that make Yiwu teas so nice. The texture was pretty thin, even at the generous ratio I tried, and although I think there were some hints of the usual Yiwu sweetness, it was very difficult to really find it–so much so that I wondered in some of the steeps whether I was actually tasting the tea at all or just imagining it. I’m all for the focus that a good tea demands, but for me this one didn’t really reward that focus. There were still some very nice qualities: the aroma of the leaves was delightfully fruity, and there was a pleasant cooling/drying after-feel…but at this price I felt disappointed.