Took a few to open up the ball.
first major steep & there is a nutty aroma, but the tea body makes it comes across like a really good black, without the malty taste. Something in the way it feels on the tongue & goes down your throat is 100% like that.
The nutty roasty aroma is really hard to place. Its different from everything else I have tried. Apart from LP’s Coffee & Oolong blend. its a bit like that. Nice.
Taste-wise, if I were to drink this blind I would swear its a black tea, whatever the combo of flavours/body/feel/aroma is, it seems to be in that area. Fruit is ever-so-slight orange or apricots, slightly woodsy but without a malty character. Perhaps a bit of chocolate, it does slightly taste of sheng puerh (of which the leaves are the kind usually used for that)
Its quite soft & rounded, but when pushed an interesting sour note comes out which is covered in a vale of lightly roastedness. It still tastes a bit like LP’s coffee beans & Oolong, but with a different base. Its a bit salty & peanutty.
An interesting tea, one of which my brain puts into the black/red tea zone rather than Puerh or Oolong.
Flavors: Chocolate, Nutty, Orange, Peanut, Salty, Stonefruit, Wood
Sounds fascinating!
If you like red tea I think you would enjoy this. Nice longevity from gong fu too
It is a bit of a chameleon tea, subtly complex while also being simple. If that’s even a thing. I think other people will get different things from it