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1988 Golden Melon PTA 001 | ||
| Genre: Shu/Black/Cooked/Ripe | ||
| Factory: Unknown | ||
| Vendor: Grandtea.com | ||
| Reviewed by Mike Petro on 07/01/2005 | ||
| Background | Late 1980s was a broad vintage given | |
| Dry Leaf Appearence: | ||
| Water to Leaf Ratio: | 3.2 gr of Leaf in 75 ml of water | |
| Brewing Method: | Gungfu in 75ml Yixing pot Rinsed tea with boiling water for a 20 seconds. Used Boiling mountain spring water collected at the source. | |
| Wet Leaf Appearence: | Leaf were mostly whole and very lively. There did crumble when rolled between the fingers. | |
| 1st Steep | 45s - Liquor was the color of an amber honey. Tastes very green for a black puerh, the secondary fermentation must have been very light. Notes of grass or reeds. Very vegetal. | |
| 2nd Steep | 30s - Green, vegetal, less bite, not what I expected from a cooked puerh. | |
| 3rd Steep | 50s - Tartness is giving way to a little bit of a wood note, albeit a green wood or bamboo. | |
| 4th Steep | 60s- Flavors are becoming more balance however there is a bitterness starting to emerge. | |
| Subsequent Steeps | 120s - Bitterness becoming the leading component, although a hint of sweetness is emerging in the aftertaste | |
| Conclusion | I find it difficult to classify this as a black puer. It is not as smooth as I would expect a cooked puerh of any age to be. That being said I think that in 10 years this may indeed be quite good. | |
| Sorry, no Photos | ||