Puerh Rating System Flaws
A couple weeks ago I rated an item I consider one of my very best and it came out to 86/105 on the Puerh Rating System. It reveals the flaws of the system. I’ve been drinking this over the past three days. Each day between 1-3 infusions. I haven’t kept track.
The system doesn’t track durability. I simply cannot drink more than three pots of anything at one time. If I do there’s something amiss. I should either grow bored by the third infusion or the tea should have proven sufficiently satisfying by then. Three’s enough.
Each day with this tea Gold and Jade Filled Hall is an intense experience. It possesses no flaws nor does it taste as though it requires further aging. The amber to jade broth is deceptively deep, very deep on the register evoking impressions of aged whiskey and spices. I don’t like whiskey and I have some that are too much like whiskey or tequila that I don’t like. This one is still quite sweet. Relentlessly sweet. Not sugary but with each infusion the sweetness NEVER fades
Infusion #12, I think. Full of sweetness and spice. Huigan ridiculous.
Still, it’s only an 86. That’s an A but at the lower end. Certainly to my mind it is better than some that *might score higher. I dunno. Most of what I drink tests out in the 60s. A ripe I consider outstanding only came in at 72. The best part of the system is how it guards against subjective bias. Taste profiles have no bearing on the quality of the tea itself. That’s what the description is for.
