I opened this cake a few weeks ago. I had purchased this tea from the Guangzhou Haiwan distributor 6 years ago and wanted to check on the progress of storing and aging this tea in Singapore.
Haiwan tea factory had produced a special range of tea in 2009 and I was lucky to bought some of these tea while I was in Guangzhou. I am a fan of this tea factory and I especially enjoy their ripe tea production.
'Yue Chen Yue Xiang' is simply a Chinese phrase meaning - the longer you store the more fragrant it becomes. This phrase is commonly used in many pu erh tea labels and many tea factories have their own versions of 'Yue Chen Yue Xiang'. Do not walk into a tea shop asking for pu erh tea with this phrase and you might end up a number of pu erh tea cakes with such phrases on their wrappers.
This ripe tea brews up a very strong session of tea. 7g in a 140ml teapot got me 8 strong jet black syrupy ripe pu erh tea. Some of Haiwan's ripe tea brews up strong and I would advise drinkers to cut back a little when they have a Haiwan ripe tea session. This tea has nice earthy and wood notes. Smooth and faintly sweet. A nice tea session for an afternoon break.
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