This is a 2026 loose leaf raw puer from Farmer Leaf.

Brewing setup: 3.5g of leaves grandpa style in a large mug brewed with boiling water

Dry leaf aroma: very fragrant, sweet hay and dried fruit

Tasting notes: earlier steeps had sweet fruity notes with vegetal, green foresty undertones, along with low bitterness and astringency. In later steeps, the bitterness and astringency faded away completely, and the focus was more on moss and river rock minerality, with a background of fruity sweetness and a cooling sensation.

Tea high: very mellow and relaxing

I have reviewed this tea before in the gaiwan, but today was feeling lazy to I wanted to see how it tasted grandpa style. Turns out, it’s also delicious like this. Overall this is a great tea, albeit a little pricy. But I think that extra cost really shows in the way the tea drinks. Compared to the more economical Miyun cake I have from them, this tea has larger leaves, a slightly cleaner flavor profile, and more complexity that comes from the older tea trees used for this.