Little red cup is all fair trade tea! This is the only fair trade Puerh I've found so far, and it is quite good!
Leaf smell:
Dry: Chocolate, Fish, Graham Crackers
Wet: Brown Sugar, dry erase marker
Tasting notes:
- First brew was light and leaned towards dry erase marker with a bit of chocolatey richness.
- After that brews either tasted quite chocolate with a syrupy background or quite brown sugar esk with a steamed milk background.
- Each brew got a bit sweeter
- I pushed brew 6 kinda hard and got a really sweet brown sugar taste.
Tea high: very balanced. Decent energy, but very smooth. Not relaxing, but in some sense I do feel a bit calmer than when I started my session.
Price notes: I got the 3.75oz canister for $16.75. That comes to 15¢/g. So this session of ~5-6g was 75-90¢. That's a fine price for a very solid puerh.
Overall: This will likely become my go to puerh. It is fair trade, tasty, and a nice price. It doesn't have my favorite flavors of leather and wood, but it more than makes up for that by being fair trade. I can have puerh from worse paid workers here and there as a treat.
