2013 “Lynx” Myanmar Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake

Flower potpourri, dried yellow stone fruits, dried herbs, vanilla pod and orange concentrate. Shore at low tide. Tanning oil. Stong, lingering mouthfeel with lots of returning sweetness and minerality/saltiness. Slightly sour. Long finish. I've had this two days in a row now, because I like it so much. Beautiful tea.

- This is a second review, to find out how different this tea tastes now that it is a decade old -
Brief (5-10 seconds) steeps in 90 Celsius water.
Liquor is a medium amber in color, almost clear. .
Taste is light and fruity with a floral note in aftertaste, no bitterness, short finish.
Mouthfeel is mildly sticky, with no astringency.
Wet leaves are dark olive green in color with a bronze hue, giving off an aroma of dried stone fruits, a bit flowery.
Flavor intensity starts to mellow down by the 5th infusion, thus best to steep longer from here onwards.
A longer (1 minute) steep in the next infusion gives a deeper color hue to the liquor, a hint of bitterness comes out and a slight astringency detected.
To me the taste difference between 2021 review and now is how there is a more presence of a floral note.
It is still light on the palate and doesn't have a long finish, though I couldn't detect the same almost-cooling sensation down the throat as I did back then.

The liquor of this sheng puerh feels very light in the throat, almost cooling-like.
I tasted a modest presence of bitterness, with no hint of sweet after taste.
But somehow there is a slight fruitiness to it, faintly resembles dried green apple.
The flavour profile doesn't linger much, though.

These border teas are truly an eye opener,
and this puer from Burma shows Yunnan does't hold a monopoly on puer.

it's a moderately prices puer that delivers all the qualities you look for in ancient trees sheng,
and the taste is very nice as well.

if you want a change in flavor from Tea-Side's Thai puers, give this one a try!

[Myanmar (Burma) is a separate country with its tea. This is not an appendage of China. Nature is not divided into a more or less significant terroir, so even the term "border tea", in our opinion, is incorrect to use. Note TEA SIDE]

Bright, aromatic dry fruits, grassy florals. Lifted with clean minerality, almost dry-fruit (starfruit/kiwifruit) acid. Long persistent fragrance, interesting white smoke. Structured sinuous tannin and long clean minerality.