2025年ベルベットマウンテン紫茶ケーキ、布朗山 200g

This tea is smooth for its age and has a wonderful sweetness to it in the first steeps. Then, it turns bolder and more astringent. The colour of the tea darkens from a slight grey tone into a darker purple/brown. The tea is very energising. Overall, a pleasant experience. I recommend this tea. Four starts for now, as I consider it to be rather astringent in its later brews, though I am sure this will mellow with ageing. I also brewed it using 100°C. I will try a slightly lower temprerature next time to compare.

This purple tea offers excellent value for money. It has the typical aromas of purple tea processed into black tea: woody, prune, black berries... I would definitely recommend it at this price :)

Very nice tea. I enjoy the fragrance and the flavor. It’s not a very intense tea. It’s can get bitter if you steep it too long. Very nice to give as presents for tea lovers.

Superb stuff

The particularities of the cultivar really show with this tea, it's very smooth for a Puerh aged only a few months, similar to some of my other puerhs that have been aged for a few years. I have a different teacake made from the same cultivar, but aged five years and that one tastes similar to some of my teas that are aged around 15 years so I think it's something about the cultivar itself, I found it very interesting. The purple colour really shows as well, the first steep is a very light greyish purple, which makes sense since purple and yellow are opposites and cancel out, the steeps around the middle of the progression are a much deeper colour which wears off into a light golden towards the end of the progression.