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“First to be tried out of my Secret Santea teas! Thanks again, twinofmunin! I made this today with 205 F thermos water, 100 ml preheated ruyao gaiwan with a short rinse. It starts off light wood,...” Read full tasting note
This is a special order produced by Haiwan Tea Factory for a Guangzhou tea dealer in 2011. This raw pu erh tea is a 250g brick composed of purple leaf pu erh blended with Yiwu pu erh. This tea when brewed, produces a delightful complication of aroma and flavors. This complication is the wide profile of wood, floral and herb taste and aftertaste. The myriad of so many flavors make every infusion and every cup an adventure in itself. Though this is a 5 year old tea, the brews are very mellow and the color of the brew produces a dark amber tone. A tea session of this tea will yield an easy dozen strong infusions and I would advise you to buckle up when you are drinking this tea. Addictive.
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ChawangshopFirst to be tried out of my Secret Santea teas! Thanks again, twinofmunin! I made this today with 205 F thermos water, 100 ml preheated ruyao gaiwan with a short rinse. It starts off light wood, with the main flavoring being the light, but distinct humid basement storage that reminded me faintly of the funk of shou. That fades out pretty much completely by the second steep and we’re left with a distinct dried fruit and green wood breadiness in the cup that tastes surprisingly like Fig Newtons, honestly.
This base of fig newton flavor lasts for a solid three of the beginning steeps, although each individual flavor progresses and intensifies throughout, getting more syrupy, smokey, sweet, and astringent as the session goes on. The accompanying qi is very settling, like how sediment settles and collects on the bottom, with a bit of heaviness, but not to the point of actually feeling weighted down.
Overall, very calming and interesting tea with a bevvy of transforming flavors and a nice dried fruit wood base that I enjoyed. My main issue is, as usual, the considerable dryness/astringency present throughout, but it was quite enjoyable even with that, and a solid amount of aging for a 2011 in both flavor and color, which was a nice orange.
Flavors: Cookie, Drying, Fig, Green Wood, Herbs, Smoke, Sugarcane, Wood
