2016 Wild Pu-erh Tea “Lord of the Forest” 1000-year-old trees Myanmar

A truly amazing tea. Probably the best sheng I’ve ever had. My tea experience isn’t that big, but this sheng is something else. It’s like a compote of flavors — prune, rosehip, apple, dried apricot — that also gives you a certain state of mind. The only thing I’ve realized for myself is that this tea is not for company. It’s for deep solitude.

I like its Cha qi. It's probably the only reason for repurchasing. The flavor is nice but it's way too blend for my liking. I've experimented brewing it in different tea-making-vessels from a porcelain gaiwan to different kinds of clay teapots, still i need to put much more tea leaves to get that flavor up. Overall I don't think this is a bad tea, I just like my pu-erh a little bolder.

I brewed 5 grams / 100 ml water, at 95 degrees Celsius, starting with 5 second steeps.

Very interesting and unusual tea, relatively mild and it has a certain freshness about it, despite it's age. Different from an usual sheng, reminds me partly of a white tea.

Notes that I found: a lot of fruitiness (plums, green apples, baked apple peel), some sweet woodiness (reminds me of fresh bamboo shoots), orange peel, and slight minerality

Texture wise, it has a certain creamy thickness that reminds me of corn milk, which also resonates with the sweetness that can be found in the flavor profile.

Definitely worth buying. Its an awesome tea!
Words can't describe it.

This is very unique & pleasant with more syrupy and red fruit forward first steeps that progress into something a little more thick and jammy with undertones of dried chamomile flowers, prunes, parsley & distinct notes of pipe tobacco in the finish. Normally I would likely be turned off by a tea that has such a distinct chamomile note, as it’s not a type of tea I typically enjoy – however I think the really dynamic melange of sweeter fruity notes and that interesting tobacco note are both more than enough to make up for the one flavour I’m picking out of this session that isn’t landing with me.

All in all, I think I got a very solid eight or nine steeps before the flavour decline into spent leaf – most of them stacked two steeps at a time since I was using a pitcher/cup set much bigger than the pot I brewed in. One of the perks to working from home is deskside gongfu sessions, and this was a very splendid one!