Treasures From 5 Mountains

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Pu'erh Tea
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Flavors
Camphor, Floral, Hay, Vegetal, Wood
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200 °F / 93 °C 0 min, 30 sec 4 g 4 oz / 119 ml

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  • “A subtle tea, and a cerebral one. I’ve been telling a lot of people lately that there are often two poles for culinary interest for me – there’s the delicious and pleasant, and then there’s the...” Read full tasting note
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  • “From my Bana Tea sampler. A really flavorful, complex tea. A bit vegetal, a little camphorous, very mildly astringent. Definitely a great cup. Brewed at 192F.” Read full tasting note
    85
  • “I’m back from being away in the woods camping this weekend with my Sweetie. We did have a good time although I feel like I did a little too much birthday celebrating with food and drinks! It’s good...” Read full tasting note
    74

From Bana Tea Company

Weight: 200 grams
Type: Raw Pu-erh (non-fermented)
Grade: 1
Production area: Lincang, Yunnan Province

When I first tasted this tea during my recent trip to Hong Kong, I was immediately impressed by the multi-layered complexity of flavors this tea has to offer. This tea is a blend of leaves from five different tea mountains in the Lincang area. The raw materials of this cake were selected and blended according to each tea’s strength, mouth-feel, body, aftertaste and an assessment of how each tea complements the others. The result is a harmonious and delicious brew with layers of distinct flavors and aftertaste. This tea is great after dinner with friends. It will likely help generate a good conversation.

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A subtle tea, and a cerebral one.

I’ve been telling a lot of people lately that there are often two poles for culinary interest for me – there’s the delicious and pleasant, and then there’s the interesting. I started in a lot of green tea stuff that I think is entirely delicious and pleasant and wonderful, but it’s also quite static – the pleasures are very similar over time in one tea, and very similar across many such teas.

Not so with puerh. Some puerhs are also delicious, but some are for more fascinating than they are, like, you know, tasty. And Bana Tea – and especially this one – is a poster child for that.

There is nothing yummy to this. It reminds me of certain Strauss symphonies – it starts out slow, cold, and precise, and unfolds into something more complicated cold and fascinating.

It’s dry. It’s a very sculpted, exacting dryness. It’s the feel of late summer in SoCal, where all the grass is dead and the air is empty and a little bit smoky. The dryness kicks off aftertastes, very complicated ones, but not necessarily, you know, sweet. Shadows of dried fruits. Odd quiet earths. Ghosts of long-dead limbs blowing through dead branches in the hot late summer wind.

It layers on the mouth, builds… I wouldn’t call it drama, exactly, but lots of layers of new notes, all dry and earthy and quiet, shifting.

Sculptural, precise, fascinating. I love it, But, as I’ve said before, I’m a tea pervert, and sometimes fresh tasty yummy stuff palls.

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From my Bana Tea sampler. A really flavorful, complex tea. A bit vegetal, a little camphorous, very mildly astringent. Definitely a great cup. Brewed at 192F.

Flavors: Camphor, Floral, Hay, Vegetal, Wood

Preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 0 min, 15 sec 4 g 4 OZ / 120 ML

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I’m back from being away in the woods camping this weekend with my Sweetie. We did have a good time although I feel like I did a little too much birthday celebrating with food and drinks! It’s good to be back home again.

I’ve had this sheng for a long time, it came as part of a sample set I got with Bana a few years ago. I’m amazed that I never reviewed it… anyway this is the last of it and it looks like it’s also sold out on Bana’s site.

This is a very pungent sheng with interesting flavors. It’s fairly overpowering when you steep it for 1 minute or so, but at shorter temperatures it’s not bad. I get a slight smoke with a woodsy element and a bit of bitterness in the finish. I’m no sheng expert but it isn’t my favorite by far. It is kind of bracing and energizing, but I think I prefer something more mellow. Maybe it’s a matter of personal preference.

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 0 min, 30 sec 1 tsp 4 OZ / 118 ML

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