2003 Yiwu. About this Raw Puerh, White2Tea says, "...I hope it will be helpful as a way to orient your compass for what good, cleanly aged (Raw Puerh) tea is...If you tried this tea blind and were unimpressed, that is perhaps the best possible scenario for your financial future..."
Coincidentally White2Tea also included a couple aged raw puerh in a recent tea club. This one, 2002 LC Brick, is the more unverifiable of the two, material might be from the Lincang area and may have been produced around 2002. Clean storage taste, mellow tea energy, low bitterness. Not great durability/length, but quite reasonable for its (alleged) age.
Moonbloom Dancong from White2Tea. After losing my favorite light porcelain gaiwan for Dancong to klutziness, experimenting with flash steeps in a Jiri Duchek Kohiki pot.
Since I don't drink anymore and am not supposed to eat grapefruit, I get my recommended daily allowance of pleasant bitterness from tea. Astro Red Yunnan black tea from White2Tea is a particularly rich source.
Moon Bloom Dancong from White2Tea is medium heavy oxidation and roast oolong tea made from the Yelaixiang varietal. Elements of incense and tropical fruit intertwine with slight pleasant bitterness in later, longer steeps.
I can't say I think White2Tea's "Red Duckshit" is amazing Dancong, better than an everyday tea, but not exceptional. It is a little shy to express its character in the first steeps, then doesn't last for many more. It is maybe a little old, which might account for some of the shyness.
Dragon cup for the last year of the Chinese New Year festival, filled with Astro Red from White2Tea. May your year be prosperous and filled with good fortune!
Garden Grove shows the orange flower scent that Fujian Black teas some times show. I always think this character is what English tea blenders were aiming at when they scented their teas with bergamot oil.
Since I unexpectedly drank oolong tea on Saturday, opting for Black tea on Sunday. Garden Grove is a lighter oxidation Fujian black tea from White2Tea. They say it is a "wild growing varietal", whatever that means. In any case a lighter taste, citrus/fruity, slight charcoal scent in the empty cup. Enjoyable taste and zippy energy.
I was thinking White2Tea's "Red Duck Shit" (guess the ducks have been eating beets...) would be similar to Milan Red, but it is not. Rather than being a black tea made from Dancong material, it is a slightly heavily oxidized Dancong Oolong. And a tasty example, at that.