2024 Mae Nam Kun Shu Pu-erh Cha Tou

This shu is nothing like the 2013 Mae Nam Khun cake. The only thing they have in common is the quality of the material. Here, as always, we have honest 200–300-year-old Thai trees.

The material for this tea was collected and accumulated in Thailand over several years before being sent to the Bafang factory in Menghai in 2024 as loose-leaf sheng puerh for fermentation.

Organoleptics

The main melody of the aroma: dark chocolate, milk, sea salt.

If you have a good nose and low-mineral water, then from the second infusion, when the heads loosen up a bit, you will also be able to catch the pastry tones of a freshly baked bun.

By the way, for your first session with this tea, I recommend brewing the tea in a gaiwan, despite your extensive collection of Yixing pots. No matter what kind of puerh it is... otherwise, you won't know all the facets of your tea. Although, I fully admit that not everyone needs this.

In the taste, dark chocolate takes center stage. In my subjective view, the chocolate bitterness here is not just appropriate, but absolutely beautiful; without it, it would be boring, like wine without tannins.

Besides chocolate, you can easily find both milk and pastry-candy tones here, but they are slightly less prominent in the taste than in the aroma.

The heads, if desired, brew well into a thick chocolate “petroleum.”

Resinous notes emerge in the second half of the taste and in the aftertaste. The texture is thick and oily. I really love it when a shou has a solid, multi-faceted body.

The tea is easy to drink, smooth, and doesn't dry the mouth at all. It has a very voluminous taste with excellent balance. The steeping resistance is remarkable, which again speaks to the old-tree material.

Cha Qi

There isn't much caffeine in the tea, as sometimes happens, and that's very good. But it's there, and the tea invigorates quite well, while adding something else from its elements that gives a light sedative effect.

All in all, these tea heads are good for both daily tea drinking and thoughtful tea meditation.

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