Advise for new to Pu-erh
*****Well I haven't actually reviewed it so I decided to review it from my
rather inexperienced perspective (I know a lot about Oolong but not
Pu-erh) using a 70ml teapot and some quantity of tea (filled half the
teapot when wet). The beeng looks rather loosely compressed and it is,
I managed to take quite a few leaves off the surface without too much
trouble with a knife, the leaf grade is the same throughout. The leaves
are very large, look like those loose leaves Kathy mentioned, the
stalk wouldn't fit into my teapot so I removed them before steeping. I
kept the leaves whole, I had to bend them into the teapot a bit with
some water during the rinsing stage.*******
thanks for the review - it was interesting to read. Sounds like a tea
that's worth trying. The wild leaves I've been drinking are whole leaves
that I let sit in the bottom of my tea cup at work (no fancy brewing methods
there! - just hot water poured on top) They fill out to nice strong light
green leaves with strong veins (like the ones in your pictures) with a light
yellow liquor to the tea and will take re-filling the cup all day. The tea
has a nice clean taste with this odd note to it that I can't describe that
makes me keep coming back for more.
Kathy
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