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Pu-erhtea.com is a company almost unheard of on Steepster I think. I had ordered from them once before, mostly ripe puerh and remember liking it. Got this one yesterday and decided not to let it sit for a week. This is an inexpensive cake, only around $25. The description states it is spring tea. I think it is a blend of theirs. I enjoyed this tea. It was smooth from the start with a lot of sweet notes and little or no bitterness. I would even say as to describe it as apricoty sheng. It has yet to become an aged sheng and lose that fruit sweetness. There was a little astringency to this tea and some grassy notes to it. The cake itself was loosely compressed and the tea soup still very yellow. I also found that Awazon shipping was very fast. This order went out EMS and arrived five days from the time it first tracked as accepted in China. I also think their shipping prices are a little cheaper than Yunnan Sourcing for the same EMS shipping. So far I can give an initial recommendation for Awazon or pu-erhtea.com. I bought two recent Dayis from them that they were selling quite cheaply and they both looked real and scanned green with the black light. It seems this company is a good one. The only thing I notice about them is their stock doesn’t change as much as other vendors. Their stock today is largely the same as when I ordered from them two years ago.

I steeped this tea eight times in a 120ml gaiwan with 8.7g leaf and 190 degree water. I gave it a 10 second rinse and a 10 minute rest. I steeped it for 5 sec, 5 sec, 7 sec, 10 sec, 15 sec, 20 sec, 25 sec, and 30 sec. The leaves were not finished. If I wanted to I’m sure I could get a few more steeps out of them.