Summary First: a really great and potent tea, lots of flavour, great transformation to sweetness, and none of the overwhelming umami of many extremely young shengcha. I will post my full tasting notes below (^_^).
My brewing parameters were 12.2g; 135ml Steam Kiln Porcelain pot; 100˚C
Tasting:
Heated dry leaf aroma: Beau
...Read MoreRead more about Summary First: a really great andtiful sweet amber raw pu'erh smell, dark humid verdant forest, a small hint of sour lemon flesh (not the overwhelming perfume of the zest oils, but rather the pleasant tartness of the interior fruit)
Wet leaf aroma: Hot humid green garden after a sunshower, aroma of blanched dark chinese greens.
1st Infusion: Complex tobacco bitterness, dried green bamboo skin minerality, stir fried chinese mustard greens, enjoyable verdant bitters - not quite like angostura bitters as those are more floral and this flavour is on the greener side of bitterness, much like rapini.
Liquor: Thick, viscous, oily; dark yellow-green
2nd: Approachable, smooth, creamy bitterness. Like a smooth but bitter Amaro (Italian digestif), but not quite sweet yet. Quite unique - like the flavour of bitterness but the sensation of smoothness.
3rd: Potent and complex herbal bitterness, smoothness abates for now; back of palate alcohol/liqueur perfume like sensation after having a shot.
4th: Antique woods coming through, a flavour of herbal honey-sweetness peeks through the bitterness
5th: Good Cha Qi, feeling awakened (first tea of the day). Getting this jungle-ey flavour like an old sun-baked tropical old-growth forest where the heat is causing the aroma of all the plants to double - like that, but in flavour form. Also getting the flavour of dried bamboo leaves (like the kind you'd use for Zongzi). Bitterness breaks its intensity on this infusion.
6th: Sweetness begins, bitterness fades almost completely, lots of hui gan.
Brewed through to the 10th infusion, maintaining the verdant sweetness from 6 onwards.
Very enjoyable and potent tuo. Read LessRead less about Summary First: a really great and