Quick Notes I added the picture of the tea, it looks like a perfect cut of a log, and honestly it smells like one too.
Dry Leaf – Old tree bark, old wooden library.
Wet Leaf – Sweet, woody, eucalyptus.
Liquor – Yellowish/Golden Bronze
Gong Fu Style in Porcelain Gaiwan 5oz/4g
1st 5secs – Sweet, woody and eucalyptus freshness. At some points seems to resemble an elder flower or linden tea. Very refreshing.
2nd 10secs – Sweet, refreshing with woody/grassy/herbaceous notes that become slightly savory and earthy but fades into very refreshing sweetness.
3rd 15secs – Sweet, woody and refreshing. As it washes down it again resembles herbaceous tea. The aftertaste is sweet and very refreshing.
4th 20secs – Sweet, woody and refreshing up front. As it goes down it tastes like linden/elder flower tea (herbaceous) notes before it becomes sweet and refreshing again.
5th 30secs – Sweet, woody and refreshing up front. As it goes down it has woody/savory notes before the herbaceous elder flower/linden tea taste. The aftertaste is sweet and refreshing.
6th 50secs – Woody, refreshing and sweet upfront. The savory woody notes becomes more apparent but fades into herbaceous sweetness. The aftertaste is extremely refreshing.
Final Notes This is not a Puerh, is a Heicha (to me they are their own category). This tea extremely refreshing, the most refreshing one I’ve had besides tea with mint added/eucalyptus added. I can only compare it to having a herbal tea blend of Linden elderflower Holy Basil and maybe some ecalyptus (not as bold as the blend but perhaps a second steep of this blend).
It is so tighly packed that it looks like a single piece of wood at first sight, after I pryed it, it was easy to see the leaves and the small ‘Jin Hua’ or golden flowers in between them. I did two short washes of the leaves and the washes themselves had extreme sweet and camphor scents. I was doing short to extremely long steeps, it doesn’t seem to go bitter or astringent at all and it takes an amazing amount of steeps well(did around 12 going strong).
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Interesting…nice one to share with my tea scientist friend Eric…I’ll have to look for this one.
It is, I just ordered a piece. I was looking for information on this specific type of Heicha before ordering… the size are WAY to big to just try them. The smallest is around .57kg, followed by 5kg and then all the way up to 30s kg. Just look up “Hua Juan Heicha/Puerh” and you’ll find some info.
Honestly it doesn’t taste like Puerh at all (with my limited experience). I found this vid of how it is rolled so tightly by tea vivre https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6pt3SFeIBNk
I guess according to the diameter of my ‘chunk’ or ‘log’ I would say it is from “QianLian” the biggest size.
very nice! ok bonnie if you get some… hint hint….. may have to try this one.
Might be awhile. Costs $25.00
Yep, but is well worth it. Unique for sure too :P. If we do an exchange I’ll send you some. I wasn’t sure if I should buy it at first, now I’m trying to figure out where I would store a whole basket in this small DC apartment. LOL
It does get challenging after awhile! I have a 1 bedroom condo but it’s 900 sq. ft so the storage is pretty good and the kitchen is great! Tea however, is challanging to keep organized. I also have lots of spices for my international cooking and have to keep my tea away from my food and spices. Sometime after I financially recover from Christmas later in Jan. (the end) I could do a swap if you want. Remind me though, I’m OLD!
Ha! Will do. I’m the same here. Holidays made a dent on my wallet, and by dent I mean black hole.
Unbelievable…someone here on Steepster sent me $20 worth of stamps for Christmas…some comment I made about postage…)I’m going to have to be more careful about what I say because I don’t think anyone is paying attention and then BAM! Isn’t that great?! Send me a PM with your address. It’ll be a week out for sure though with the New Year.
Interesting…nice one to share with my tea scientist friend Eric…I’ll have to look for this one.
It is, I just ordered a piece. I was looking for information on this specific type of Heicha before ordering… the size are WAY to big to just try them. The smallest is around .57kg, followed by 5kg and then all the way up to 30s kg. Just look up “Hua Juan Heicha/Puerh” and you’ll find some info.
Honestly it doesn’t taste like Puerh at all (with my limited experience). I found this vid of how it is rolled so tightly by tea vivre https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6pt3SFeIBNk
I guess according to the diameter of my ‘chunk’ or ‘log’ I would say it is from “QianLian” the biggest size.
very nice! ok bonnie if you get some… hint hint….. may have to try this one.
Might be awhile. Costs $25.00
Yep, but is well worth it. Unique for sure too :P. If we do an exchange I’ll send you some. I wasn’t sure if I should buy it at first, now I’m trying to figure out where I would store a whole basket in this small DC apartment. LOL
It does get challenging after awhile! I have a 1 bedroom condo but it’s 900 sq. ft so the storage is pretty good and the kitchen is great! Tea however, is challanging to keep organized. I also have lots of spices for my international cooking and have to keep my tea away from my food and spices. Sometime after I financially recover from Christmas later in Jan. (the end) I could do a swap if you want. Remind me though, I’m OLD!
Ha! Will do. I’m the same here. Holidays made a dent on my wallet, and by dent I mean black hole.
Unbelievable…someone here on Steepster sent me $20 worth of stamps for Christmas…some comment I made about postage…)I’m going to have to be more careful about what I say because I don’t think anyone is paying attention and then BAM! Isn’t that great?! Send me a PM with your address. It’ll be a week out for sure though with the New Year.