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smells like baked apples, cream, yogurt, pie
tastes like plain frozen yogurt, sweet cream, fresh ricotta, coriander, and wildflowers with the tartness of tall dry grass
later scent becomes evergreen flowers and moss in the winter sun
delicately roasty throughout

dry leaf smells of toasted rice, hot chocolate, and cream
tastes of cream, baby lettuce, seashells, cod, barley
smells like lilacs, cream, and honey roasted whitefish
later infusions consist of fish and kale soup, lemon zest, calendula, sweet pine, and the sweetness of sea rocks in the sun
honeyed orchid petals and leaves in a lush forest on the finish
dry cup smells of honey and lemon

6 infusions gongfu
first few infusions are camphor, honey, rose, eucalyptus
progressing into currant, black peppercorn, dim sum, valencia orange, and eucalyptus
feels like a mandarin orange in the mouth
smells like cedar, tulips, and mullein

dry leaf: chocolate pudding, cedar, frosting

1
n: chocolate fluff, peaches and honey, cream
t: peach, strawberry, sweet cream

2
n: muffins, bread crust, wildflowers
t: pear, yam, lemon, bread, salmon sweetness

3
t: malt, lime, wheat, mandarin, wet spring earth, puff pastry

4.
n: red pepper, whipped cream, toast
t: malt, peppercorn, toast, orange, milk

5.
n: steamed milk, lavender, cream
t: oak, cake, cream,

6.
n: hot chocolate
t: chocolate, marshmallow, cream, creamed corn

mouthfeel like an underwater current in a cold mountain stream

1
t: jasmine, butterscotch, whipped cream, frosting, pound cake
n: jasmine flowers in the rain, wet granite and marble

2
t: jasmine, apple, cream, lemon
n: clean summer river with wildflowers

3
t: jasmine, nectarine, water from a mountain spring, dinner rolls
n: jasmine, apple cake

4
t: jasmine, peach, birch, nectar
n: jasmine, apple, honey, mandarin

5
t: jasmine, blood orange, quartz river rocks in the sun, pear, cream, lemon water
n: jasmine, sweet cream, angel cake

6
t: jasmine, cupcakes, apricot, frozen yogurt
n: jasmine, mango skin, dew

7
t: jasmine, yam, pie crust, milk, blueberry
n: jasmine, coriander, sage

dry leaf smells like chocolate pudding, cacao powder, the edges of brownies, and warm pumpernickel rye crust

8 infusions gongfu

1
tastes of sugar cane, hot chocolate made with water, lactic finish
smells like fresh pastry made with yogurt and chocolate

2
tastes of chocolate pudding, green grape, cloves
smells like sweet lamb stew and carob

3
tastes of beef stew, malt, chocolate, bread crust
smell like the leaves of undergrowth in the sun, chocolate, honey dried salmon

4
tastes of carob, with a cinnamon sweetness, and a malty, lactic finish
smells like sweet toasted bread

5
tastes of applewood, carob, with light coffee notes

6
tastes of burnt toffee, carob, salmon fat, delicata squash skin, and sweet estuaries

7th and 8th infusions dissipate into malt and warm seabreeze

first few infusions taste the way rich earth smells after rain, kumquat rind, pea sprouts, margerine, notes of pecorino and mandarin juice in the finish

smells like peach juice, dried apricot, grapefruit juice, cranberry, leather

dry cup smells like orchids, raw almonds and dark honey

3rd 4th 5th infusions taste of green bean, edamame, buttercup, lilypad flowers, notes of toffee and butter in the finish

wet leaf smells of hyacinths and apples recently fallen from a tree on a rainy day

final infusions taste of aloe, saplings, reeds, honeyed tonic water, light toffee finish

maple sap and wet linen on the nose

7 infusions gongfu

thick mouthfeel like the current in a stream

vanilla, sweet cream, butter, daffodil, honeysuckle, lemon, nectarine, elderberry, snap peas, moss dew, wet river stones

8 infusions brewed gongfu style