Antwerp's Placebo 2019

Tea type
Pu'erh Tea
Ingredients
Pu Erh Tea
Flavors
Acidic, Bread Dough, Cacao, Camphor, Chocolate, Coconut Husk, Cucumber, Dark Wood, Drying, Flowers, Goji, Metallic, Rye, Smooth, Sour, Spicy, Tobacco, Walnut, Yeast
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  • “The combination of aromas in the dry leaf smells almost exactly like a brand of Swedish snus called Ettan, which has the obvious rich tobacco smell as well as walnuts and chocolate. Those same...” Read full tasting note

From Mandala Tea

So very, very smooth. Delightfully and gently energizing, this young(er) ripe pu’er is a rare treat from the Yunnan Province. Antwerp’s Placebo is gonna make you feel good! 200 grams (7.055 ounces) of true tea joy.

What a find these leaves were! Picked (2017) from trees grown in Menghai County grown in fresh, clean air, they have been expertly processed (2018), yielding super clean and thick flavor with no off-putting post-fermentation funk.

The leaves are beautiful and whole, the tea liquor rich, thick, with just the right balance between your favorite old book smell and the hints of chocolatey bitter and sweetness, with a hint of licorice in the aftertaste. If you are a fan of our Mountains of the Moon, you simply must try this one. We don’t want to wish time away, but this is going to age like a true champion ripe tea. Highly recommended!

Steamed and pressed in December 2019, this is an astoundingly delicious cake of tea! Available in loose leaf version here! We mightily recommend trying both formats so you may experience the difference steaming and pressing makes. Here is the mini-tuocha version (same leaf, 2020 pressing.

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The combination of aromas in the dry leaf smells almost exactly like a brand of Swedish snus called Ettan, which has the obvious rich tobacco smell as well as walnuts and chocolate.

Those same notes come through in the warmed leaf along with a spicy dark rye and a vague flowery quality. Rinsing enhances the spiciness and brings out warm yeast bread dough and mahogany furniture.

The taste is warm but the tea doesn’t warm the body. In the mouth is a clean swirl of tobacco, mahogany, goji and cucumber, very light bitterness; clean and oily. The aftertaste is sour and feeling in the body acidic which leaves me thinking this tea will benefit from time stored. I get that kind of sourness that cucumber can possess and also that of fermented cacao beans. Something also reminds me of coconut husk.

I don’t have enough left of this free sample provided by Mandala to bother storing. If this is still offered by Mandala in a few years, I’d consider buying a cake. A clean, oily shou that tastes like tobacco and mahogany is much welcome, compared to those that are muddy and taste of potting soil.

Flavors: Acidic, Bread Dough, Cacao, Camphor, Chocolate, Coconut Husk, Cucumber, Dark Wood, Drying, Flowers, Goji, Metallic, Rye, Smooth, Sour, Spicy, Tobacco, Walnut, Yeast

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