Does anyone remember the buzz on this cake from way back in the day? The 90's Ding Xing. I managed to pick some up back in 2011 from a Taobao vendor recommended by another tea blogger. This tea has always been a favorite of mine, partly because it's one of the very few 90's puerh on my shelves, and partly because I honestly love the wrapper design. Simple characters (I've always wondered what they say) in purple ink, and that moon and star at the top -- makes me happy. I tasted it again today and was even happier to find the aroma strong and full of cherries and wood. Yes, cherries. Although it's not unusual to find berry notes in an aged puerh (mostly raspberry and blackberry) I've had only one other tea that was so clearly a cherry note, an aged oolong that smelled and tasted just like chocolate covered cherries (oh how I miss that one). This Ding Xing is more cherries and dark wood (no chocolate, sadly) and still going strong. The passing of the years has finally smoothed out the roughness on the tongue I used to get with this one. It was some happy nostalgia to bring this one to the table again.
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Bev,
ReplyDeleteTotally Nostalgic! We all bought this one, right?
It has been recently discussed... and is still available for purchase.
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Ha! I guess this sort of dates us, eh? Thanks for passing on the link to the sale page from The Chinese Tea Shop. I didn't even think to check and see if it was still available. Where was Shah talking about it? I always love to read his very thorough notes :)
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