Jinglong Tea Factory - Pu-erh Tea in Bamboo Leaf Tube (80 Cups) Ripe Puerh Tea (7.1 Ounce)

UPDATE: This is the 4th time I have purchased this tea over a period of several years.. I have tried many brands of Pu-erh tea and this one is my favorite.. you can really taste the difference in the various brands of these teas.. The others just don't stack up.. Nice mellow flavor and it reminds me of chocolate..no its not chocolate but it has a really nice distinctive taste.. I highly recommend this tea. This is a great tea. It has a nice mellow flavor.. I don't like Pu-erh in the loose leaf and the bricks are just too hard to break and too crumbly .. This tea comes in a row of 1.5"x 1/8" disks that you can break in half.. One half disk is plenty to make a large mug of tea. I make my tea strong so you may want to use less. I really like the bambo tube it comes in.. It's cool looking and it keeps he disks nicely in order as you peel it back to expose more. At 7oz of tea, its a lot of tea in a small space.. I recommend this tea!

Jinglong Pu-erh is now my go-to morning tea and I absolutely love it. The tea is rich and strong and very flavorful. I truly look forward to my Pu-erh tea every morning. I like to add a small piece of candied ginger to the cup and a bit of cream too - so wonderful and a lovely way to wake up. The tea comes in round cakes about the size of a half dollar that are easily snapped into 4 quarter pieces. I then put a small tea piece into a tea brewing basket and brew in near boiling water for about 5 minutes. If you want to add a top-notch electric tea kettle to your repertoire, I highly recommend the Cuisinart CPK-17 PerfecTemp 1.7-Liter Stainless Steel Cordless Electric Kettle. 4000+ positive reviews = I LOVE MINE. Also, I like to take my tea with me during my commute and I highly recommend the Contigo travel mug - it has a no spill top - for real - no spill!! and my tea stays hot for a solid hour - and I do mean HOT. Look on Amazon for: Contigo AUTOSEAL West Loop Stainless Steel Travel Mug , 16 oz. I'm an espresso and latte guy but I like to add Pu-erh to my morning ritual as well for balance and a bit less caffeine. Plus my digestion improves after drinking a cup of this tea and I notice that the tea keeps my hunger at bay as well. This is a fine company and clearly very dedicated to their craft. Great tea, great find and highly recommended!!

*Please read the additional note added at the bottom, since the first review* Initial Review: I've had roughly half a dozen different Pu'erh teas, so I'm neither new to Pu'erh nor an expert. This is so unpleasant that I almost wonder if it's turned bad or something. I love the earthy notes of Pu'erh teas, but this tea just tastes foul. The packaging is nice, and I got it quick, but the taste is remarkably unpleasant. I tried two cakes of it (each about 10g), and both had this problem. This tea had come up as one of the first Pu'erhs in my search. And it had many good ratings, so I thought it might be good. But now I'm wondering if the company has gamed the ratings. I also recently got the "Yunnan Longrun Pu-erh Tea Cake-Caiwei (Year 2012,Fermented, 200g)" from Amazon, which was also delivered quickly. It's a bit more expensive at $20 (as of this writing), but way way better. Maybe try that instead. *update, about a month later* I returned to this tea and tried it again, just for grins. This time I tried rinsing it twice, and a bit longer than I'd rinsed it last time. By "rinsing" I mean that I steeped it twice (about 5 seconds each time, with fresh boiling water), throwing out the water each time. After the rinsing, with a very brief steeping time of just about 8 seconds, the tea wasn't too bad. The "off" flavor I'd tasted before became more of a flavor rather than tasting like it'd spoiled. This doesn't seem like a very high quality tea, but for the price it's not so bad. Just be sure to rinse it and steep it for a very short time. Repeated steepings are good, too (meaning steeping the same tea leaves again, with fresh boiling water, to make additional cups).

As advertised! I love the tea. the cakes are a good size. The tea ends up looking very dark and earthy. lovely taste. I used to buy Numi (which is great for a quick tea bag) but this really has a deeper flavor. I recommend it.

Good quality tea! Over many years I ordered many different teas from various Amazon tea stores and never returned back to make another purchase. This shop’s Pu-erh tea came a pleasant surprise, and made me really happy. The tea smells and tastes reach and authentic, you should use a really little bit at the time when making your tea, plus you can add warm water and steep it for the second time and you’ll notice how the flavor is opening up and getting more subtle. Another super cool and totally unexpected factor was the packaging inside the bag. They put the tea in a cool organic package made of bamboo. Therefore I think this also can make a nice gift for some of your friends that are into tea as much as I am. Pu-erh tea has many good benefits for health and it can help to loose undesired weight, I’m not going to go in details of it as you all can find so much about this online, plus I have no interests here aside the fact that I was pleasantly surprised with this tea quality that this guys sent me. Whoever runs this business-THANK YOU! Keep the good quality of your teas, and I’m definitely coming back to shop for more teas.

Been drinking tea for the past 22 years; almost entirely varieties of green tea, and many of those premium. I had never previously tried any type of pu-erh before obtaining this one. It is positively the tastiest tea that I have ever drunk. My previous experience with other super-black teas was that they had a plain taste of tannin. I know this pu-erh is also tannin, yet it has a completely different taste than the tannins of other black tea varieties. It is much softer and smoother than any other black tea, even when served darker ( more concentrated ) than other teas. And because it can be served more concentrated than other varieties, a more robust flavor than other teas can be obtained. I first shred one patty via a simple tower grater common in most kitchens. The tea then goes into 18 fl oz of water, which I heat in a small pot over an electric burner just until it begins to boil. Then I stir the brew, pull it off the burner and put a lid on the pot. Timer is then started. Every 60 secs I restir briefly, until the alarm sounds at 3 minutes. Stir one more time and then strain it to separate the liquid from the solids. After the initial servings, the remainder of this concentrate is allowed to cool down before storage in a glass jar. We have never observed spoilage when stored at room temperature for about a week. We use only ¼ cup of this concentrate per 15-16 fl oz serving in our large mugs. Thus, we get about 8-9 servings per batch of concentrate made from one of these pu-ehr tea patties. I have already repurchased another package for ourselves, and two more as gifts for a friend and a family member. Its rustic bamboo wrapper makes a striking impression, really driving home what a very special bit of Chinese culture it is :-)

I had to cancel my subscription and change my review. The first 2 orders were delicious. I am a tea aficionado, but by no means a tea snob. I actually never met a tea I didn't like. I even like the 'stinky tea' my acupuncturist advises I consume. When I received this last order, I noticed right away the tea didn't have the usual wonderful aroma. I put the disks in a special airtight glass jar I've been using for years. Over the next few days, I noticed there was no distinct tea scent when I opened the jar. When I poured hot water over the dry tea, the smell was just like dirt when planting. I like the smell of dirt, so it wasn't unpleasant, but it was unusual. Sure enough, after steeping and tasting, I knew something was off. I tried a few of the other disks and the same dirt smell was released. The taste was NOTHING like tea. I've been drinking tea every day of my life for over 50 years. I stopped buying tea in bags a long time ago b/c of the microplastics. There also have been several well-documented reports on tea containing a certain amount of dust, dirt, and other particulates. All of the 'cake' tea/loose tea I have purchased has a wonderful aroma when dry and this one did not and once water is poured over it, I could not tell the difference between it and pouring water over dirt in a freshly potted plant.

Considerably smaller than I was expecting, but I didn't pay much attention to weight. And it was cheap. The bamboo leaf bundle-thing was packaged in an airtight, resealable bag, with the typical puerh instructions and distributor listed on the bag. Definitely has a different sort of funk, than any of the many other puerh teas I have... plenty of stems and I couldn't pick out a single whole leaf in my cup of tea, and as such, I suspect it is Definitely a lower grade tea. This tea is perplexing. Required more washing than most puerh, and had an astringency at first probably a result of all the broken edges of the leaf and stems, however. After washing, and brewing at a lower temp, its ok, not terrible. But its not what I would reach for when I would typically want a cup of shou puerh either. To be fair, its not that this won't grow on me, just that its so different; so many broken edges, stems, and perhaps a hastened fermenting? At first glance It resembles my other puerh, but then crumbles, has a different odor, astringency, and a completely different flavor profile. Its cheap. Its different. It doesn't taste like any of my other puerh. It probably needs aging. its growing on me, but certainly not what I would introduce to someone as their first puerh.

I have to be careful not to leave the compressed leaves in the cup for too long. Its very powerful but the flavour is wonderful. Product came from Poland in a hand written envelope! I didn't know Poland produces tea!

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I let it steep for 15 mins for the second time brewing to get more flavor. I found out this product uses the tips and leftover pieces of the pu erh plant. Now it is still an awesome product with good flavor..but next time I will try the actual full size pu erh cake.

Good quality and very testy, as expected.

thé noir à saveur prononcé, terreux , velouté, distinct, très savoureux