Roswell Strange sent this to me as part of the Slack chat Secret Santea event, so thank you so much! I’ve been wanting to try this one. Since I also had a sample of Teavivre’s 2011 Fuding, I decided to drink these side by side.
I can tell from the beginning that this one will take a while to fully expand and steep out, as the initial steep is extremely light in color and flavor and the chunk of cake is really holding itself together. The leaves are very intact with almost no fannings come off in the rinse or during multiple steeps.
Gongfuing this, I get a delicate flavor with stone fruit and a nice fruity sourness that develop throughout the session, along with an eventual acute sweetness. I revisit it the next day and it keeps delivering, and the day after that, the cake still hasn’t fully pulled itself apart.
Knowing that this one can be steeped quite a few ways with good results, I look forward to experimenting with it some more. Thanks again, Roswell Strange!
Flavors: Pleasantly Sour, Spices, Stonefruit, Sweet
