3.5g, 70 mL TWL gaiwan, boiling
Was a bit dry in my plastic sample box so I let it sit and steam for a few minutes in the gaiwan atop a sieve strainer atop the boiling kettle.
Decent texture, 7-8 steeps before stew taste. A bit of drying cherry, sweet, floral, some mint and cooling in finish. Some heat, rising feeling. Doesn’t go very deep, but very nice for the 15c/g I paid for it four years ago. Maybe I should’ve picked up more from TU before they closed shop. I only have this and a random autumn cake. This is much better than I gave it credit for back then, and I’m sorry I ever compared it to the “04 youle gushu,” a tea that is actually nearly undrinkable. Insert Shaq “I apologize” meme
The taste is not as full as it could be, but the perfumed florals are quite decent given it’s not some $/g boutique. The material is pretty enough and leaves are mostly intact, not choppy like a XG tuo or anything. Some mushroom taste in finish starting to develop. Will be nice to see how this continues to develop.
