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Kamyria drank Qianjiazhai Old Growth 2012 Sheng by Verdant Tea

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This is such a delicious sheng I’m kind of beating myself up for not ordering a cake while it was still available. Now it’s too late. They have 2013 Master Han’s Sheng and that’s getting great reviews, maybe I’ll go for that? I don’t know… I’m so torn… Yunnan Sourcing has some nice shengs too and then there is Mandala’s Wild Monk Sheng 2012… This is very stressful. I’ve never bought a cake or brick before and it seems to be such an investment both emotional and financial! :P

This sheng is absolutely delicious when prepared right. I used 7 g for 6 ounces of 95C water. First I rinsed the leaves and let them sit for 1 minute to wake up. My first steep was only 10 seconds long, second steep 15 second and based on my previous review I should keep it at that for a while.

My first couple of steeps smell sweet and floral and the taste follows in the same footsteps. It’s flowers and fruit with some notes of potato and sweetness lingering throughout the sip. Not even tiny bit bitter. Second steep developed a pleasant tanginess to it.

I’m sad I will never see it age.

For the time being though, as my house slowly disappears behind the piles of freshly fallen snow, I’ll just sit here and sip on this wonderful hot liquid. Yum!

Flavors: Flowers, Potato

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7 g 6 OZ / 177 ML

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This is inspiring me to have some sheng soon :)

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This is inspiring me to have some sheng soon :)

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I’m a stay at home, married mom with 5 kids, most of them grown up. Only one remains with us now, my 7 year old sunshine which I push out of the house to school every morning and it’s not an easy thing to do.

I’m an avid gardener during a growing season and my goal is to grow most of the food we eat and save some for winter too. I’m also an artist and a huge nerd. I read books, I play computer games. My very first game was World of Warcraft (was addicted to it solid for a year, lol), then came Skyrim, Minecraft (with my 7 year old) and few others less memorable along the way.

I began drinking tea on regular basis just over 2 years ago when I decided to kick my morning coffee habit. It wasn’t pretty… I couldn’t function for 3 days straight but survived. A year ago I discovered loose tea and found Steepster… The rest is history.

Some of the staples in my cupboard are Dragonwell green tea, Japanese sencha, Silver Needle white tea, green roobois, darjeeling and pu’erh. I also drink variety of flavored teas for fun and I like to order tisanes and mix them with straight teas for even more variety.

Recently I found out how much I love oolong so will be stocking up on that as well.

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