2015 Yunnan Sourcing "Yang Luo Han" Ripe from Yunnan Sourcing

2015 Yunnan Sourcing "Yang Luo Han" Ripe

Tea type
Pu'erh Tea
Ingredients
Pu Erh Tea
Flavors
Bread, Dark Chocolate, Fishy, Nuts, Citrus Zest, Coffee, Herbs, Mineral, Dark Bittersweet, Orange Zest, Pepper, Thick, Autumn Leaf Pile, Cherry, Pleasantly Sour, Plum, Red Wine, Sugarcane, Sweet, Bark, Jam, Medicinal, Orange, Popcorn, Smooth, Char, Cheesecake, Coconut, Cream, Fur, Marine, Metallic, Milk, Molasses, Oak, Tart, Umami, Wet Rocks, Anise, Leather, Sour, Spices, Wood, Bitter, Earth, Nutty, Creamy, Pumpkin, Raisins, Cocoa, Fruity
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Average preparation
Boiling 0 min, 30 sec 8 g 4 oz / 129 ml

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  • “5g in 100ml gaiwan. Have had this for a few years and realised I left the half-open sample packet unsealed in semi-porous conditions, so it’s definitely changed a bit since I bought it in...” Read full tasting note
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  • “I really wanted to love this tea but something did not click on our first date. Which is strange, because this puerh does display many positive traits: a fairly complex taste with no funkiness,...” Read full tasting note
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  • “The dry leaf was fishy smelling so I gave it a good 20s rinse and the fish disappeared, woot. The rinsed leaf smelled like bitter dark chocolate, baked bread, autumn leaf and buttered nuts. All...” Read full tasting note
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From Yunnan Sourcing

This is a blend of premium wild arbor and old plantation fermented “ripe” pu-erh tea. We laboriously blended high quality ripe from different fermentation batches to achieve a taste that was both strong and sweet/soft at the same time. “Yang Luo Han” means “Goat or Ram Arhat”. An Arhat is a “perfected being”, one that has achieved Nirvana and is in balance with everything in the universe.

The tea is balanced with a strong/bitter up front taste and a sweet/soft/thick taste as an underlying theme. The leaves are lightly fermented, giving it some of the strength of raw pu-erh tea. Perfect choice for longer term aging, though enjoyable now for the more adventurous!

357 grams per cake, 7 cakes per bamboo leaf tong

Only 500 cakes in total!

This tea has been tested in a certified laboratory and has passed the MRL limits for pesticide residues as established by the EU Food and Safety commission.

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I got a cake of this in July and it’s already more than 2/3 gone! If I’m honest I bought it because I like the goat on the wrapper..but I wasn’t dissapointed!

I think this tea may have changed a bit since I got it because I broke the cake up and put it in a earthware jar to air out.

While there is still a bit of the fermentation flavor, the dark chocolate flavour and creamyness of this tea overpowers it pretty easily (and I hardly notice it anymore). A good candidate for gong fu or grandpa style although I find it doesn’t stay strong enough for very long as grandpa style. A very easy to drink quality shou.

Flavors: Creamy, Dark Bittersweet, Dark Chocolate

Preparation
8 g 4 OZ / 125 ML
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I found this to be a very tasty tea, one of the best house ripes I have tried from Yunnan Sourcing. It is a blend of gushu and plantation material. Despite their saying that this tea is ‘lightly’ fermented, I found it to be quite dark and deep, with just a touch of fermentation funk. It is quite delicious – notes of earthy cocoa, some sweetness, bread dough in later steeps, and only a touch of bitterness. The best flavors did dissipate after the first couple of steeps, but it was still quite good after that. I think this is a great tea and a good candidate for aging.
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sirturtletheknight
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Well said. I have to say I agree that the first 3 or 4 steeps are the best for this one..yet I’m still considering getting a tong of it!

Rich
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Have you tried the Green Miracle? That is another one I really like.

sirturtletheknight
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Yeah I got a sample of it when it was in the YS tea of the month club and then got a cake of it. That’s another candidate for getting a tong..not sure which one would be better since they’re both quite nice and the Yang Luo Han is a bit cheaper. So hard to decide!

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This is a very tasty ripe with a good amount of fermentation taste. It was a clean taste though. I didn’t get any fishy notes. There was some bitterness to this tea and a lot of sweetness. The bitterness steeped out after a few steeps and I was left with a nice sweet puerh. There were a variety of notes I would venture to say cocoa or chocolate, but somewhat bitter. I would say it developed a fruity note in later steeps. This is definitely a ripe puerh I would buy again if I was short on tea, not that there’s any chance of that.

I steeped this tea eight times in a 120ml gaiwan with 10g leaf and boiling 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. If I wasn’t at my caffeine limit I’m sure I could have steeped it four or five more times at least. While this may not be a tea for those with an extreme aversion to fermentation flavor it was really quite good.

Flavors: Bitter, Cocoa, Earth, Fruity, Sweet

Preparation
Boiling 10 g 4 OZ / 120 ML
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tea123
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Judging by the amount you order, there really is no chance of that!

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