SANRAN Puerh Tea Cake, Aged Ripe Pu Erh Tea, Chinese Yunnan Puer Tea Cake, 12.6oz/Pack

Good tea

This is a Full Sized (12.6oz) Aged, RIPE (Cooked), Puh-Erh Tea Cake, from Yunnan Province, in Mainland, CHINA, so it has a Much Shorter (about 5 years, maximum, before it starts to go BAD) Life Span, before it's Expiration Date. Unlike RAW (Not-Cooked) Puh-Erh Tea Cakes, which should be Aged for At Least 10 years, First, before Cracking Open the Cake, up to at least 50 years Aged, getting Better and Better in Taste, Flavor, and Aroma, for each year it's AGED, knowing that there are RAW (Not-Cooked) Puh-Erh Tea Cakes over 100-years Aged, that sell for Thousands of Dollars, and can be aged FOREVER, as far as we know, so I'm letting this RIPE (Cooked) Puh-Erh Tea Cake sit in my Bedroom, and become Acclimated to my House, before I Crack It Open, to Brew and Taste. I shall UPDATE this Review, AFTER I do that, and will let you know my Honest Opinion of this RIPE (Cooked) Puh-Erh Tea Cake, at that time. Until then, I'm giving it the Benefit-of-The-Doubt, and Rating it 5-STAR's, for now. So... STANDBY... for now... !!!

This is a very good puerh for the price. It's earthy, mellow and a bit woodsy. After having tasted a wider variety of puerh teas, this is what I would call a "normal" or "everyday drink" type.Some puerh's have some interesting/unusual flavors such as sweet cigar, brown sugar, maple syrup, wet sock, distant fish. When I smell seafood/fish in a tea, it's generally in the smell of the brewed tea only and not in the flavor. This tea has none of those strange flavors, for better or for worse.My main complaint, which is a small one (considering the price) is there is a large amount of twigs/stems in this tea. Which compared to a higher quality puerh cake, brings the value down a bit. One reviewer noticed that the twigs increase the bitterness, but I didn't notice an iota of bitterness, despite the twigs. It's still a very good value.Generally I brew with boiling water. 30s rinse, 60s steep, 90s steep, 120s steep, etc. I get about 5-6 steepings from this tea before it's mostly water.I also purchased this tea because it claims to be organic. In the Q&A section, someone asks if the tea has USDA Organic Certification. The seller responded very honestly by saying no, but to take their word for it that they have high standards and the plants are grown organically. They even reference some kind of Chinese certification about standards, which I've yet to look it up, but my 'spidey sense' is they are genuine and telling the truth, or at least as much as they know of it.On the word 'organic'. In the USA, there is a growing trend of farmers who grow organically but choose not to seek certification. The certification is extremely expensive and thus they have to sell their product for more money to recoup the cost. Plus, if they have a bad crop year, they are still out the certification expense, which affects their bottom line unfairly. So many farmers are choosing to let their customers decide if they trust them or not when they say, "I grow organically," or "I don't use any pesticides or herbicides and use compost for fertilizer". I'm sure there are some bad apples out there abusing customer's trust, but I haven't met them yet.

Incredible Flavor. Makes a delicious Puer Latte! Very light, almost a champagne but bursting with fruit Notes!

I bought a Pu her cake from a different seller and it was great, you can tell it was aged and fermented for a while but still very fragrant and flavorful. The tea would almost instantly turn into a red-brown color and it worked for what they say it’s supposed to do, then I finished that cake and tried buying a second one but it was sold out ughhhhh! Then I found this one and that description was pretty similar to the other one so I decided to give it a try, but at the 1st cup of tea I noticed it was completely different than the other one, first of all the leafs or whatever it’s called were like sticks but extremely hardened and in a dry sense and once is in the hot water for 3 minutes passed, the leafs turned green, just like any other tea. There was no scent or change of color in the water, absolutely nothing happened. Then I gave it another tries and the same thing, so I decided to give up. Unfortunately it’s going to the trash as it can’t be returned because dumb me, did not check return policy. DO NOT BUY, it’s not pure, or fermented or aged!

This is my first purchase of a Puer tea, after reading Lisa See’s “The tea girl of hummingbird lane.” I think I hit the jackpot with this batch of “ripe” tea. The first flush I felt “trippy,” and wondered how it was cured. However, the next batch was just calming. But the FLAVOR is unbelievable. I’ve never tasted tea like this. My tea is always too weak. This tiny bit of tea made the most flavorful tea I have experienced. I will buy more no doubt, and savor what I do have. Who knew you could ferment tea leaves! Definitely adding it to my list of fermented products I am adding for my health and longevity. Thank you!

Ok. Wish it’s less expensive.

Super smooth earthy and dark. Really clear tea usually does around 10-15 steeps in the traditional style. It also came a day earlier than it was supposed to 5 stars all the way I LOVE it