I also bought some loose wild pu-erh leaves from Yunnan Sourcing which I
found are lovely. They have a light taste with no bitterness and you can
get a lot of cups out of them without much reduction in the taste of leaves.

I had some similar looking wild pu-erh leaves from another seller, but they
weren't nearly as tasty so you can't go on looks alone, but these have
become one of my favourite "everyday" teas.

Like yourself I am exploring Pu-erh teas at the moment. I had some aged
(around 8 years) tea the other day but it wasn't very nice. Tasted like
wood chips! (not from the same seller), while a younger (but still a few
years old I gather based on its looks and dark brew) Pu-erh tea bought from
a Chinese supermarket for a few dollars turned out to be much nicer and not
as strongly "woody" in taste.



> I've only just started discovering Pu-erh, I've got a few tuos from
> Jing and some beengs from Yunnan Sourcing, a few 2005 7542's which I
> didnt like, they probably need to mellow, and a 2004 Mengku Wu Chi Dao
> which I did like.
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