by Lee Milne
October 2017
I was suprised by this tea. I was expecting a darker, more "aged" taste, this tea is very clean tasting and still very "green". A lovely thick mouthfeel, a little astringencey in the first infusions which fades quickly. The wet leaves smell faintly smokey with a nice hay aroma coming forward. The taste is very sweet and lingers in the whole mouth for a long time. Also this tea has obviously been processed and cared for very well. The leaves are still all in tact and the ratio of buds to leaves is very high making for a nice rounded flavour.
At this price it's a real bargain for age and quality. If you store this tea correctly it will develop nice fruit flavours I believe.
by I Love Tea
August 2017
This raw puerh is fragrant and fresh. It is unlike any puerh I have tried- very woods-floral and the taste is incredible- I get many infusions when I prepare it in my gaiwan.
by Jianxiaoyang
August 2017
I want to know if this kind of puer tea is organic.I didn't find on the bag.
by Brian Queenan
April 2022
This tea tastes wonderful - a smooth and velvety mouthfeel accompanied by a floral boquet.
It does not withstand a lot of brews however. I use 5g of leaves with 100ml of water, and steep for around 15 seconds. After the first 5 or 6 brews the taste seems to diminsh markedly, and from that point on the tea needs 1 to 2 min steeps.
by Stephen Sanders
February 2022
A clean tasting sheng puerh. A good longevity and very session-able whilst multitasking.
by Robert Shippy
December 2022
While I can say this is a nice quality tea that brews a clear cup, the flavor is a bit too ethereal for me. I like the petrichor/equine mustiness of a well-aged puerh. I am trying to learn more about Sheng varieties, but so far in my experience the affordable ones are not nearly as robust as the cooked/Shu varieties. I enjoyed this tea, with soft camphor and woody notes. I am interested to see how it ages in a yixing storage jar.
I love the tea, but they recently changed their packaging, at least for the 3.52 Oz. I like that it's recyclable, but there's a window and light degrades tea quality, which a tea company really should know. Hopefully, they're just doing this for pu-erh, but it's disappointing.
Seems very weak tasting on my first infusion. I followed directions and color was still faintly amber (barely)! I’m used so far to a darker, richer Pu’erh tea. I honestly couldn’t give it 5* stars due to the lack of taste and weak body. If it does get better with repeat infusions I’ll be pleasantly surprised. Otherwise I will probably blend this with a stronger Pu’erh so it doesn’t go to waste.
by William Fletcher
June 2023
Don't know if I'm doing it wrong but I tried changing the water temp,steep time, amount of tea,washing it twice all I am getting is a bitter soapy water flavour and I can't seem to get any other result same thing happend with the honybush and the moonlight white. this tea leaf business doesn't seem like it'll be a good hobby for me which is a shame since I was going to use it to help me stop smoking maybe ill keep trying but at this point these leafs make my standard tea bag seem like good quality I even got a different kettle to controll water temp still no better results
don't buy it ..it's awful
by A. Lexiconn
September 2018
I've tried to brew this 20 yr Aged 'Iceland' Pu'erh many times, many ways: weak, strong, 2nd infusion... No attempt has yielded any interesting aroma or taste whatever. It's clearly the most bland, tasteless tea of ANY type I've ever had. Markedly weaker than any of the pu'er varieties I've tried before.
I simply can't comprehend the 5 star reviews from other buyers here --- they are describing a totally different product than I received. I'll be adding what's left of it to my compost bin.
