Tea List Gallery: Pu’er and other Dark Teas
Dark teas include a number of varieties beyond the more popular subcategory of Pu’er, and we shall grow this list to provide a more comprehensive cross-section. Compressed and other forms of modified teas made from dark teas are included in this list for cross reference and easy finding. Shengcha Puers, although technically is a lightly oxidized tea when freshly processed, it does turn dark through maturing, so we have included them here as well. This also aligns with the popular concept of both shengcha pu’ers and shucha pu’ers both belong to the same category, albeit some inconsistency in tea category definition.
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Many of the tea varieties in this list have appeared in review posts in this site. You can reach the particular writing by going to the category menu above this post. Most of the times one piece of writing may include a few of the teas listed below for comparative study. You may also do a site search to find out more about a particular tea and where it is mentioned.
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- Yiwu Daye, Matured Shengcha Pu’er 陳年易武大葉生茶普洱
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- Zang Cha Tablet 藏茶小圓餅, a dark tea popular amongst the Tibetan people
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- Zang Cha bricks 藏茶茶磚, new and old. Zang Cha is a dark tea commonly consumed by the Tibetan people
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- Pu’er Grade 1 一級普洱, a moderately matured modern post-fermented tea. Post-fermented teas are traditonally called dark tea. Other names of pu’er include puer, puerh, po-lay, bolay, etc
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- Yiwu Daye, Semi-shengcha Pu’er 易武大葉半生茶普洱
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- Xia Guan Xiao Tuo, a single dose version of the compressed dark tea 下關小沱
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- Daye Pu’er, baked 焙火大葉普洱
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- Pu’er shu cha discus, Fuhai 2000
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- Tong Qing shu cha Pu’er compressed into a bar
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- Pu’er compressed in small mandarin oranges 普洱小黃桔
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- Xia Guan Tuo Cha, compressed dark tea 下關沱茶
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- Imperial Golden Tip Pu’er, aka Golden Tip Pu’er, or Gong-ting Pu’er 宮廷普洱 is a tippy fine leaf post-fermented dark tea. This one from 1997.
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- Special Grade Matured Pu’er, 特級陳年普洱 post-fermented tea. This is a fine leaf variety with golden tips
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- Mengku Shengcha Pu’er 勐庫生茶普洱, aged dark tea
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- Tong Qing Shengcha Bing, photographed at 3 yrs 同慶生餅
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- Laos Maocha, semi-dark white tea, a tea in its own right yet more used as an ingredient for making into shengcha pu’er
