5 Year Aged "Menghai Golden Pu-erh" of Bu-Lang Mountain

From Yunnan Sourcing $7 for 50 g

I'm not sure what exactly to make of this one. It has citrus aromas, mostly orange, that I do not really like. It is also really malty which makes for a strange combination. Interesting and worth a try, but not much more than that. On a good note it avoids the unpleasant flaws that most cooked pu has, but seemingly at the expense of developing the strange malty/orange combination.

2012 Yunnan Sourcing "Autumn Yi Wu Purple Tea" Raw Pu-Erh

From Yunnan Sourcing $19 for a 250 g cake

 Interesting tea. It is young, but has aromas of an tea that is several years older that this is. The body is very smooth as well, nothing complex, but something that is nice to have when I am in the mood for a simple tea. Sort of like the 'steak and potatoes' for puerh, it works well for day to day drinking. Definitely worth getting a cake or two, especially at this price.

2012 Yunnan Sourcing "Lao Cha Tou Brick" Ripe Pu-erh tea brick

From Yunnan Sourcing $12 for a 250 g brick

I really wanted to like this one. The texture of the brick is much nicer than most making it easy to break chunks off. The tea was a perfectly decent ripe. However, this is where I draw the line for treasures found in tea. Drinking puerh I have come accustomed to finding the occasional treasure in the tea and find it mildly entertaining picking around it. One of the most common treasured is hair, I'm sure anyone who has had the pleasure of going through a couple their own cake/brick or whatever compressed tea  is at hand has found a hair or two. This tea had the most hair I have ever seen in compressed tea. It was to the point that I just dismantled the brick after carefully harvesting enough for a couple of sessions. I would have gladly paid a a higher price for a less hairy version. I consider myself fairly tolerant with things like this but the rest of this brick is unfortunately going in the trash. It really is too bad to see this go, since it was decent tea.