Purple Cloud Teahouse, First Purchase

This is Our first order from Purple Cloud Teahouse, but it wasnt our first taste of tea from them. First tea was a free sample that we acquired by commenting on a post in a group, it was for their "Zhong Cha -40322_ Liu Bao" which was a nice tea. We left a review for it on the Purple Cloud Teahouse website which you can view right here with this Link

Our first order We bought the Ceramic Glazed ShiPiao Teapot (140mL) Which you can see our review for on the website, We will not waste time going into detail here on the blog about it Other than We love it and it is Very pretty, Please see our review on their website Here and give it some traffic, that would be nice :)


What we will write about however are the Teas that we decided to purchase on our first order.
Instead of getting more Liubao or take a chance on something different, We decide to go with Thomas's preferred favorites, something Familiar to Us all.
We chose Lapsang Souchong and Tanyang Congou, If you know us then you know that was a "No Brainer".
These are teas that we know and love so well and have the Most experience with.
We have had and Do have So Many of these teas because they are some of our Favorites. We actually have experience with these teas have others similar teas that we can compare these teas to, They are Thomas's "Go To Teas"
The small Lapsang Souchong selection from Purple Cloud Teahouse is Superb!!!
thats all there is to it, Straight up Wonderful teas.
These Teas are NOT to be compared to the Smokey, leathery Comercial Lapsang Souchongs that we know so many are Familiar with(we enjoys those also tho).
These Tea are to Only be compared to a proper Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong that is Not smoked over and ruined.

To make it Short and sweet, These are Delicious!!!
The Wild Lapsang was quite floral and fruity with notes of longan fruit, light and crisp. It was actually Best to us when made Western style with a Long hot steep.
The Old Tree Lapsang was similar tho Much bolder a bit more floral and note quite as fruity, and actually best to us when made in short steeps, Gongfu.

The BEST of the three teas we bought was the The Congou Grade A
it was very much similar to the above mentioned lapsangs with the fruity note of Rambutan and slight floral notes, this tea is Superb!!! It is best steeped either way Gongfu style with short steep Or Western style with long hot steeps...It is even very nice with sugar and a bit of milk. It is complex and bold yet simple and smooth, A Perfect Tea!!!

Now these Teas are NOT cheap in price BUT you get what you pay for and We must say that they are worth Every bit of the Cost!
We have cheaper version of each to compare and we did compare, these are Wonderful and beat out many others.
Would we buy them again??
Damn right we WILL!!!!
We plan on buy more of ALL THREE of them if possible.

We are Very Pleased with our first purchase from Purple Cloud and We look forward to many more orders in the future.

These also make Good Iced Tea!

We will Show off the Teapot on blog since we didn't write much here about it.
You can see the Tea already seeping into the cracks in the glaze making it even more beautiful,
we've only used it for just a few days so far(yes we removed the string from the lid)

-Roger-