2019 Haiwan Anniversary Ripe Puer

Each tong has seven cakes and it’s wrapped in cardboard paper as you see in the pictures.

This Ripe Puer tea and the Raw Puer version were released in 2019 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Haiwan Tea Factory.

The name of this product “Xiang Ju Er Shi Nian” means literally: “Fragrant Gathering for Twenty Years.” Referring to the 20 years commemoration of the factory.

 The tea material consists of sun-dried, early spring tea leaves from Menghai (like the Raw Puer version).

The tea leaves are small and medium-sized. The blended material has many tea buds and also some seed pods and stems.

My brewing parameters: 6.75 grams of tea in a 90 ml gaiwan.

The brewed tea leaves still have some dui wei (wet pile fermentation aroma) but the fermentation taste is not that strong. You could drink it now. However, it will benefit from a few years of storage.  Some fruity notes are also present.

This tea has a thick, creamy body. And it also has a fast and sweet huigan, that causes one to produce plenty of salivae. The tea has a moderate astringency and nearly no bitterness even after pushing it.
The taste also remains in the mouth and throat for a while. The tea also has that desired slippery sensation at the back of the throat when swallowing.

 It remains stable throughout the tea session, with a pleasant sweet huigan. It can give at least ten infusions.

This tea is tightly compressed. For that reason, you can give it two rinses and have some patience until it fully opens.

It’s a solid tea. Good price-quality relationship and it’s also superior to many Haiwan teas.  For this reason, this one deserves adding it to your tea collection.