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’05 Root Beer Comfort
Price range: $42.00 through $70.00
Root‑beer nose, creamy warmth, and dank graphite over astringent structure and sedating Yiwu qi. Old‑arbor 6FTM production with deep cultural pedigree.
Root Beer Comfort opens with a playful yet unmistakably mature profile: a root‑beer nose rising from the cup, followed by a cream‑broth warmth touched with dank graphite. The session tightens toward the finish, where astringency and a trace of bitterness sharpen the structure before giving way to a strongly sedating qi—the kind that settles the limbs and quiets the mind.
Drawn from Yiwu old‑arbor material, this production carries the softness, sweetness, and depth that define the mountain’s reputation. The cake comes from Six Famous Tea Mountains (6FTM), the factory founded by Ruan Dian‑rong. She’s one of the celebrated Five Flowers of Menghai. Her influence on modern puerh is profound: establishing production standards, pioneering commemorative cakes, promoting puerh tea art, expanding Dayi’s Mainland’s stature, and shaping puerh’s early consumer culture through major Beijing publishing houses.
That lineage shows here. The tea’s creamy warmth, graphite undertone, and sedating qi reflect a producer who balances tradition with refinement. Since arriving in Los Angeles storage in March 2021, the tuo has transformed beautifully, developing more resolute maple sweetness and drugging qi.
For drinkers who appreciate comforting aromatics, grounded sweetness, and qi‑forward Yiwu character, ’05 Root Beer Comfort offers a deeply soothing mid‑aged experience with unmistakable 6FTM pedigree.
70¢
| Size | 100g, 30g |
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