Premium Bai Cha Long Jing

From Dragon Tea House $19.99 for 50 g.

This was added to an order to get a new tea tray, the free shipping enticed me enough to finally pull the trigger and get the new tray. I really liked the fast free shipping, 11 days from when I placed the order to when it arrived at my door in the US. I was expecting somewhere in the area of 3 weeks, nice work DTH.
With the disclaimer that I am not too familiar with this tea, it smelled of plastic to me. It seems like a problem of the packaging that Dragon Tea House is using and was kind of off-putting to me. If they changed their packaging it might make the first impression a little better. With that being said I was not able to notice it when brewing. I like to drink greens that have nice full leaves grandpa style in a clear glass since it nicely compliments the whole leaves. The tea was very mellow, again something I may not be used to with a green processed this way but I definitely see the resemblance to a white tea. It was not as amenable to a long session making about 1 L total replenishing the tea along the way since there were some unpleasant subtleties that that became apparent after that much tea.

2006 Haiwan Ripe Pu-erh Tea Tribute Brick

From Yunnan Sourcing  $13 for a 100 g brick.

 This was about as expected, a cool looking brick of tea made with mediocre finely cut material. Nothing shocking about the tea not being that great since the brick is pressed into a cool pattern. It was drinkable, but just a average or slightly below average tea. If I get another I would just display it.

2006 Menghai Ripe Pu-erh Tea tuo cha

From Yunnan Sourcing  $11 for a 250 g tuo cha.

This one seemed more like a fairly average black tea instead of puerh. I could have mistaken it for a black tea based on taste and aroma, but that is me. Average liquor and aromas, not at all offensive but very mild and safe. Everything about this was too muted for my taste.