This is a raw puer tea from Farmerleaf. It is maocha instead of a cake because apparently they had a small harvest this year.

Brewing setup: 7g of tea in a 125ml gaiwan, brewed at 95C

Dry leaf aroma: super fragrant, smells like a cool wet forest in the Pacific Northwest with apricot notes.

Wet leaf aroma: vegetal, cool forest, apricots, freshly shredded tree bark.

Tasting notes: some intensity in the earlier steeps, PNW fern forest, fresh tree bark, minerality, mint, apricot, floral notes, good huigan.

Mouthfeel: intense on the early steeps, then leading to refreshing, cooling, and juicy feelings on later steeps.

Tea high: happy, energetic, heady.

This is a delicious and complex tea. Even though it was a bit pricy at $38/80g, I’m happy I got it. Looking forward to trying the other teas from them in my order.