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This tea was phenomenally good. It came as close to a 100% as any raw puerh I have ever drank. From the first steep it was smooth and a little sweet (not meaning sugar sweet) tasting. There was none of that bitterness often associated with sheng puerh, It only got better with each steeping. There were a lot of complex notes to this tea but I failed to pin them down exactly because I was concentrating on a game of Runequest at the time. They were sweet notes but I don’t know just how to describe them. There was just a hint of bitterness in the second steeping. By the third steeping this bitterness was nearly gone. By the fourth steeping the bitterness was a faint memory. By the sixth steeping this tea was just smooth, no other word is necesary.

I steeped this six times over a period of hours. The tea had more steepings to it but I have to get up tomorrow and I was steeping 6 oz each steeping. I steeped it in a 200ml Yixing teapot with 200 degree water and one puerh ball, about 7g of leaf. I steeped it for 10 sec, 10 sec, 15 sec, 30 sec, 30 sec, and 1 min. This is right up there with the 2014 Wild MOnk from Mandala in taste and quality.