Fifth Puerh sample from Pu-erh.sk's Taiwan tea adventure, a raw puerh tuocha of indeterminate age, "Jingua Gongcha Jixing". Looser pack for a tuocha. Super clean storage character, perfume/incense, slight smoke, light bitterness. Very nice.
The third tea from Peter's visit to a Taiwan tea shop is a Dayi Shou Puerh of indeterminate age. Raw Puerh is often not really prized until it has decades of age on it. Ripe Puerh was originally created to mimic the effect of decades of age, by fast aging Puerh material in warm, wet piles. Dayi is a very well known factory Puerh producer. It may not be well known, but a little age on Shou Puerh, and it loses the characteristics that many find distasteful in young ripe puerh.
A second raw puerh found by Peter of pu-erh.sk in a Taiwanese tea house. This one was a Xiaguan Tuo of indeterminate age. Xiaguan is known for tightly compressed "iron cakes" and tuo. The first challenge, thankfully handled by Peter, is breaking them up. The second is being patient enough to let them steam a bit or soak before getting to the brewing proper.
Peter from Pu-Erh.sk recently took a trip to Taiwan. This tea is from an assortment of Raw Puerhs he had at a particular shop. He shared them all, semi blind, as a way of sharing the tea shop experience. The "trick" is to identify the one he definitely wouldn't sell. First up, "Baoyan Mugu Tuocha".