Puer is like a drug, so be prepared to let it rule your tea life if you go down that road. Nothing compares to a deep, soupy, black ripe puer.
That said, if you like floral oolongs you should look into Anxi Tieguanyins. They're fantastically floral with a really complex aroma and lovely light colour!
EDIT: Realized I forgot to recommend KuuraCorp. If you're looking to get into puer they press wonderful raw and ripe puer tea cakes, and they're explicitly anti-capitalist (as far as corporations can be). Great org. Their justification for existence is the following:
KUURA is primarily the passion project of one individual, created as a natural progression of excessive consumption of puer tea. All 'businessess' exist for a reason, usually to create profits. For sure, this company exists as a way to earn a livelihood, but the primary directive is to find and secure teas that we personally want to drink. The selling and sharing is because, like everyone else, we are held hostage by capitalism, and the constant need to pay rent, eat food, and go about our life. We long for a day where we can just share and drink tea in free association, and not have to sell it. For now, we too must be bastards and try to sell you products, to keep the machine going. Sorry about that.
Damn dawg, a 2005 is nice. Looks delicious. I'm generally more of a ripe puer fan, but if you're looking for puer cakes (raw or ripe) I'd check out KuuraCorp (see my other comment about them here), white2tea, and Liquid Proust. All three have seriously kick ass puer cakes—you honestly can't go wrong with any of them. Very curated, very high quality, and always delightful.
I would try some stuff from KuuraCorp then! I can specifically recommend their 2019 Pyschotropical raw puer. The aftertaste is something else, and it's far smoother than you're expecting from a two year old raw.
All about that ripe puer lyfe. What kind of oolong?
I still gotta try puer!
Right now for oolong I've just got one dark, nutty tasting oolong and a lighter floral sort of one. I like the latter far more.
Puer is like a drug, so be prepared to let it rule your tea life if you go down that road. Nothing compares to a deep, soupy, black ripe puer.
That said, if you like floral oolongs you should look into Anxi Tieguanyins. They're fantastically floral with a really complex aroma and lovely light colour!
EDIT: Realized I forgot to recommend KuuraCorp. If you're looking to get into puer they press wonderful raw and ripe puer tea cakes, and they're explicitly anti-capitalist (as far as corporations can be). Great org. Their justification for existence is the following:
I will definitely check it out!
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That looks like a beautifully aged puer, friend. What's it called?
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Damn dawg, a 2005 is nice. Looks delicious. I'm generally more of a ripe puer fan, but if you're looking for puer cakes (raw or ripe) I'd check out KuuraCorp (see my other comment about them here), white2tea, and Liquid Proust. All three have seriously kick ass puer cakes—you honestly can't go wrong with any of them. Very curated, very high quality, and always delightful.
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I would try some stuff from KuuraCorp then! I can specifically recommend their 2019 Pyschotropical raw puer. The aftertaste is something else, and it's far smoother than you're expecting from a two year old raw.
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