Thank you to the good tea friend who gave me this sample. This is I think one of the better semi aged teas I have tried. It did start out with notes of leather and tobacco. Early on there was a note of cherry too. This note unfortunately did not last long. It developed into something fairly nice once the notes of leather and tobacco were pretty much gone. Not sure what to call that note. It was what I would call comparatively sweet. Not sweet like the apricots of a young sheng but sweet in comparison to how it had started. Overall I liked this tea and a lot of semi aged teas I do not like. I steeped this twelve times and stopped because I was at my caffeine limit but I think this would have gone a number of more steeps. It was a little weaker in the twelfth steep but not incredibly so. I think I certainly could have gotten another four or five steeps out of it. I could save the leaves but tomorrow I will want to drink something else.
I steeped this twelve times in a 100ml Ruyao Teapot with 7g leaf and boiling water. I gave it a 10 second rinse. I steeped it for 5 sec, 5 sec, 7 sec, 10 sec, 15 sec, 20 sec, 25 sec, 30 sec, 45 sec, 1 min, 1.5 min, and 2 min.
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Flavors: Cherry, Leather, Sweet, Tobacco
