Introducing Our Pasha Gushu  

facebook.com/teaafficionados/ Hey, you two, perhaps you want to take a look at my site, I just "advertised" this wonderful tea, however my site is not very popular right now. Perhaps you want to watch my video, I think, the leaves smell like gooseberry, what do you think about it?

She did the packing visuals??? Completely outstanding.

Celine's reactions are the best! 😂 So cute and hilarious! 😁 I wish I could try some of that tea!

Please let Celine know how much of a fan base she is getting from the tea heads for her artwork on the wraps!

Anyone else here early morning drinkers? It's worth waking up to sunrise and a brew.

You guys are awesome!!! Love your videos! I found your channel two days ago and just watched almost all of your videos in the last 48h :) Greetings from Germany!

Tea seems amazing. My favourite tea at the moment is raw Pu Erh from Pasha mountain as well :)) Oh and Celine - you did a great job with flamingo boss design ;)

Love all of your videos! I can't believe I haven't discovered you sooner. I love how passionate you both are about tea and how detailed you are in your reviews. I wish I wasn't on the other side of the world! I've learned so much from your channel.

beautiful artwork

Awesome art work and looks like an amazing tea. Nice video!

Hey Mei Leaf, we have been sparing our Monocle Boss for the past 7 years, and it is aging beautifully. It has become smoother, more buttery, less green and less astringent. It still has little leather feel in the initial brews. The mineral feel has gone. The color of the brew has turned more orange and peachy. Looks like maple syrup. Still as potent. It's great to see a tea age naturally like this. Thought you would like to know. Thank you for sourcing amazing teas ❤

First impression of a Pasha Gushu Raw 2016 sold by Mei Leaf under the name “Monocle Boss Puerh” In this review, I will try to be as honest as possible and clean from suggestions from other reviews and marketing tasting notes (as much as possible) 1. Before even opening the paper rap, a strong small of dried apricots rising from the cake. 2. The presentation is beautiful, with a nice print of the flamingo in the dark library. 3. After moving all over the world, from china to the UK to Germany, the cake is a bit damaged and the paper is full of broken Leaves. The cake itself is beautiful, green, yellow, brown, grey, and white. Smells les of the dried apricot. 4. The smell of the dry leaves in a hot Gaiwan: cooked dried apricot, burned sugar, a hint of see breeze, a feeling of dry nose and leaps like the feeling from the ocean wind, baked raisins from a carrot cake. 5. first infusion (95c): wet leave smell - burned dried apricot, wet charcoals, sweet chicken fat, dry nose, and leaps. Liquid smell: mossy wet wood, dried apricots from an old book. Taste - a bit bitter and smooth, soft texture, dried apricots cooked in chicken fat. Finish - dried apricots and dry/salty mouthfeel. 6. 2nd infusion: wet leaves are rich and full of cooked dried apricot in a boiling chicken fat. Liquid smell more like the ocean and wet wood. Taste: clean bitterness, dry moth not a lot of fruitiness. Burned sugar (not sweet, but bitter). Finish: bitter dry and floral, long lasting finish. The empty cup smells like roosted dark chocolate, roses, and baked apples. 7. 3rd infusion (not as hot but longer): smell: baked dried apricot (more intense this time) taste: very bitter (over powering bitterness) like unripe fruits, very dry mouth. Finish: bitterness dissolve slowly into sweetness (like burned sugar that is also bitter), fresh charry stones (seeds) dryness. Very long finish. 8. 4th infusion (a bit colder and shorter): smell - see breeze and see salt (also in the nose and leaps feel), the dry apricot is not as strong, floral: Jasmin, roses and orchid (the floral note is very gentle and coming up only after the tea has been left in the cup to cool down). Taste - less bitter (shorter brew is better), dry white wine or aged bitter liquor. Smooth texture but tingly sensation (like from unripe apples - no apple taste though) again I feel like I am drinking a sweet chicken fat with over cooked dried apricots. Remind me of an Iraqi dish my mother used to cook. After the tea cooled down a bit a strong woody note rising on the tang, with tannins, vanilla oil, and coconut. Finish - the bitterness dissolve and a sweetness arrive. Again, like sucking on the seeds of over ripe cherries (the combination of woody bitterness with the burned sugar and fruitiness). The feeling of creaminess is rising in the finish, and I feel like I am getting tea drunk. The finish evolves into vanilla oil. The next infusions I will enjoy alone :-) Overall: this tea is special, and it’s not for everybody. The finish is very beautiful, rich, evolving, and everlasting. The taste is bitter and strong. The smell is fruity and salty (in a special way). Other tasting notes: wet tobacco sourness, old leather dryness (for me these tasting notes are not very important when enjoying this tea)

I LOVE that image! Wonderful, Monocle Boss! ART and tea goes together, don't you think? I love you guys and how you work together and support each other in this venture. It adds so much to the overall enjoyment of this process for me. I've been getting trained up on teas. Have tried some of your recommends and they were all what you said. I haven't ordered from you bc I am in Canada but I am working my way around to that. Thanks for the fun, I've been having my ceremony whilst watching this and I just feel my overall enjoyment of life has been ramped up. Keep up the good work. Cheryl

LOL. That was some great Gushu! (Vicariously enjoyed) -- finger snap!

Love this tea! First PuErh that I have tried and enjoyed. You guys totally killed it with that image association. Its like drinking a Boss ass flamingo who's wearing a monocle, smelling of books & colone and I think he's eating oysters. I totally appreciate all the effort you put into this tea experience & enjoyed drinking it with you guys. Peace & Love!

Celine is so beautiful like if the moon made roses make milk and little fairies got rosey cheeked drinking that moon milk rose tea, Celine would be the Queen of high...so beautiful

新年快乐！ It was a pleasure to join your Chinese New Year celebrations today and to watch your tea workshop live, still many things to learn even for a well-informed teahead! Thanks for organising it!

I noticed that yesterday on the website for sale but it didn't have a price for the picture yet now we know! I'll be ordering mine next week!

This is really a quality young pu'erh. It's so rich and wonderfully complex and deep. Feels like I'm learning a lot of things about it every time I brew it. Also one of the most beautiful cakes I've seen for sure. Thank you!

you guys are so funny, and very covincing. thumbs up, and all the best. G.

I just tried this tea. It is very interesting. The tingling sensation is definitely present. There is some gentle bitterness and astringency with the first couple of brews, but what I find amazing is how the sweetness remains throughout many brews. The body sensation is interesting. I wouldn't say it was a high-energy rush for me. It does give a slightly stoned effect but is more uplifting at the same time. My body feels relaxed and somewhat numbed. My mood is enhanced and I feel more peaceful. Definitely worth trying.

Great marketing, guys! I just ordered to understand what you were talking about.

That one sounds like a keeper, Don and Celine!

Just picked up monocle boss from the post office. Love it. I agree, any lover of young gushu will love this tea. Good choice to have this on the menu!! Seshioned with my wife and kids, we all think it's fantastic!!

Love the flamingo!

Just tasted this for the first time!! The packaging as well as the tea is top notch I'm from Colorado and have a hard time getting such great tea. Thank you so much for your videos and insight on tea!

I got my cake today and I can say this is fantastic sheng up-erh! Well done!

Great to see that it is a fairly loosely compressed tea cake. That makes it easier for some of us who like to store sheng tea cakes for further ageing. Looking forward to try this one next time I come over to Camden if it is available (in my old age lately I have been slipping up in keeping up with all the teas that come out). By the way I never filter the pouring of pu'er teas.

Can't wait!!!

THAT WRAPPER IS MOTHERFLIPPING AWESOME!!! What a shame I can't possibly get hold o it...

Fascinating. Simply fascinating :D

Guys, I am SO sold. I love you guys!

Really like the cups in this video

The end half of this video is so funny 😂

You guys are so cool to watch sharing your impressions with this tea. It sounds very promising!

NOW SHOWING...THE Monocle Boss Collection! Hopefully coming to a Gong Fu Guru set near you! Celine, I've watched your wrapping video and I still can't make mine look as nice as you do...but I'm glad the doesn't affect the tea and I still LOVE the artwork! Thanks and I love the taster (I ordered 4 because the cake was sold out), that's why one is missing in my collection because I couldn't wait for the full cake to come in to taste it. I'd love to add a couple of pictures to this post but I just cant seem to make that happen. Oh well, I LOVE THIS TEA!!!!!

Just had my sample today and must say..... very delicious. I need to order myself a cake!

why did i not see this before i placed my order this morning?? Great video.

I'm tasting a PuErh I got from Damann Frères - couldn't be any more different. It is leathery, but it does also remind of seafood and salt water. It is a curious contrast. The color is much darker and caramel-ish. Also, significant astringency and thickness. Just for the fun, I have to point out 16:59 :D Such a great gag.

Happy new years! Thank you for sharing your party at your teahouse! Even in that little bit of time you shared with us on facebook was enough to feel the positive vibes coming from you. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and culture with us. Keep it up !

Stunning design!

I think I just found myself a perfect birthday present! Thank you :) I tried young gushu 2016 and fell in love with young pu'ehrs from the first sip of it. Looking very much forward to try that pink bossy beauty :D

I may have guessed wrong on the instagram contest, but I just ordered mine now. Looking forward to it.

Don, you should do a puerh cake unwrapping and breaking ASMR. Us Teaheads will love it.

Are you going to have taster bags available for this tea anytime soon? I can't wait to try it out! Also, the cake is pretty big at 357g, that would last forever (years, if consumed responsibly, or otherwise over two months of gongfu-style daily treats!), would you consider selling smaller packages like 30-50g?

I've just tasted it... Is liquid love. Morning in Mexico city drinking tea.

At first I was like 130€ for tea? That's expensive! But then I did the math: 357g / 5g servings = 71 servings Each serving gets 15 infusions a 150ml = 2,25l per serving 71 servings times 2,25l per serving = 160l of tea from the whole cake So 160l / 130€ = Amazing 81 cents per litre of 500 year old gushu ! So for 81 cents I can either get a pisspoor cup of coffee or a whole litre of amazing tea. Guess who's going to order some tea soon ;P

Just placed my order for a cake! Can't wait to try it =)

Sipping on some Iron God Heaven while watching this - cheers teaheads!

Hi Don and Celine! Started making kombucha and fell into the rabbit hole of whole leaf teas and the wonderful flavors/experiences that go with. I would definitely consider myself a transformed Teahead! Your videos are fantastic, fun to watch and super informative for my nerdy tea seeking. You've done a lot of videos about #PuErh. I recently tried one with a friend (unknown to me, a Teahead!) and the PuErh had a fishy (marine) and leathery character. I was wondering if you guys were planning on talking about PuErh that you dream of and hope to find and PuErh you wouldn't wish on your worst enemies? The best and worse of PuErh? or what to look for when searching? What you might find when looking?

From minute 30 on, I can tell, you are truly "tea high", and I think, this is only understandable by someone who knows this feeling hehe, you got me, I will buy this one!

Hi Don/Celine, I have a question, I watched the video but don't know Wether I have missed out this point. say you buy a gushu pu erh. and say it starts to loose it's nice flavours after a year. would you then leave that tea alone for a couple of years or maybe taste it yearly to see if it has improved? I have been watching your videos since 2015, and I am trying to persuade my other half to get me a gongfu guru for my birthday! Thanks for sharing your tea knowledge and wisdom. next time I can get to London I will visit the shop! Happy Brewing! Andy

Always happy to see original and inventive cake wrappers! The cake looks very red to me, is it just the white balance?

I can have tea this late in the day... Can't sleep if i drink tea pass 5 pm

Don, I love this tea but have you considered the possibility of making a Monocle Boss Pasha Gush Experience boxed gift set like you have had in the past for Tiger Spirit and still have for the Dinosaur box? It truly is a very SPECIAL tea and deserves the chance for it's own Experience set.

21:07 Lol guys, everytime you talk about this kind of tickling zesty astringency in your mouth on every video, my mouth starts watering IMMEDIATELY! Funny fact.

If you had so much fun, do a revisited video in a few months with a Yixing pot and friends! 300g's is quite a bit, how long can I age this?

Cloudy apple juice with a peachy tinge. I'll tell my doctor that my pee color is a cloudy apple juice with a peachy tinge

Hey Don, I think your video's are fantastic, the production value is spot on. The knowledge and information you share has really opened my eye's to the world of tea. I have just recently started my tea journey "coming from a heavy coffee drinking background" and was wondering if you had any recommendations for good beginner tea's that I could try using the Gongfu method. I have mainly been drinking black tea with milk and would like to explore beyond that. I was also wondering what size Gaiwan you are using in this video. Thanks!!!

Oh damn this tea sounds awesome, although it's hard for me to spend all that money upfront. Do you plan to offer samples?

I can't tell if you guys are selling while on drugs. Nice video, always enjoyable to watch!

Hmm, the cloud I would suggest is down to its age, should clear soon hopefully.

Thanks for the great videos! I was wondering if it's possible to buy tasters not only online but also at the teashop, especially for cakes. Thank you :)

have one of them on the way! i hope it is really as incredible as you describe and act. for 100 that would be a really great cake. the unfiltered color already looks very promissing for such a young tea. but guys pls stop taking all my money :D and the artwork of this wrapper would also give a very nice shirt, but the male version pls without the pink :D

I must get my hands on some of this tea. When will it be on sale?

love your channel! in the "different ways to make matcha" video what electric kettle do you use? i also noticed there looks to be a water spout connected to it, correct me if I'm wrong I'd love to own one myself!

Awesome ✌️

This might actually be worth the 5GBP shipping cost. I just need to convince my teamates to share this tea in taste and price as 300g+ is quite a lot for one person. By the way I have suggestion to make: I would really like to see a video explaining how to properly brew DanCong or atleast how to find out how to properly brew it. I have tried that tea only once and from the five infusions I did two came out as amazing one was okay and two were totally awful to the point that I couln't go back to the tea. Very strange! I don't know if I just got a bad tea or if it's my fault.

Should I ziplock my tea cakes after breaking off a piece?

great video as usual but I have 2 question: 1. are you brewing in gaiwan for filming/display reasons or other? Would it be a mistake to use Zisha Yixing pot with raw puerh? ( I just got one!) 2. if I'm not wrong, raw puerh tea is a green tea sun dried and destinate to fermentation right? How come that you need to brew it close to 100C degrees even when is not yet aged? I need to go deeper into puerh knowledge!

Aging? Would you suggest the same process of breaking up the bing like with Tiger Spirit? Enjoy it now for a year and then store for aging for 10 years?

Don I'm a bit disappointed (bummed, slightly depressed...insert your favorite descriptor here). I got in with enough time to get the Jade restock but I didn't get in for the Monocle Boss (your name you placed upon this new and fascinating sounding tea)! OUCH, I know that you'll continue to try and restock this (SOON I HOPE). What happened? I'm guessing that since you expected this to last for a few weeks that you got REALLY SLAMMED with orders. Oh well, such is life. I've asked to be on the restock email list when you get the next batch in. Good luck, I'm just glad that I did get the Jade as my taster I had before Christmas was well worth the wait for the new cake. THANKS as always for your careful sourcing of your products both tea and tea wares.

Another one on my list:) Any word on the jadestar restock?

Do they make any tea in Myanmar, just across the border from Xishuangbanna?

Hey Don! Quick question! Do you let your teas and puerh cakes rest after arrival? Why or why not? Also if you do, how long would you suggest I let a my 100g puerh cakes rest?

this pu erh is pretty bright... Pu erhs in my hoise are much more near to being black

Peruh hey hello dost nebi

I wish I could drink my PuErh late in the evening and still sleep at night.

Hi Don, 2 questions. I know there are probably no hard and fast rules, but with Pu'erh, if I do a 20 odd steeping session, with say 10 grams in my 180 mill teapot, do you know if the caffeine is weighted fairly evenly throughout all of those steeps, or would it come out in the first 5 or so? Not sure if there is data on this anywhere online so thought I'd ask you. Secondly, what is your opinion when people say drinking young raw pu is bad for you? What does your TCM knowledge say about this?

will the looseness of the tea change as it gets older, since this Gushu is a year old?

First few seconds.. Don doesn't introduce Celine!! haha that face lol

How to you manage to sleep after drinking puerh so late :)) great video

the cake is already out of stock?

Hi Don. I really like your videos! :-) But what is the brewing time for this Pu Erh? It looks like you would brew the first few infusions more or less the same time (30 sec). But in your Tea Brewing Chart for Pu Erh you give the brewing times with 5 sec only (with increments of 10 sec). And also the amount of tea (5g for 150 ml) is different than here. This is quite confusing. Could you clarify that please?

what do you think about yixing cups?

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