2015 If You're Reading This It's 2 Late

This is the pu’er for peeps who like it sweet, mouthfeel crazy and lots of crazy feels. I got notes of peach, cream, metallic, savory, butter, herb, spearmint, and floral. The texture is mouth fluff oily and heavy making for a great addictive sip.

I quite enjoyed 2 Late. I like it a touch more than Poundcake, but that’s more of a personal preference thing – both are fantastic teas of the same price.

Full review on Oolong Owl http://oolongowl.com/2015-if-you-are-reading-this-its-2-late-sheng-puer-from-white2tea-tea-review/

This was a “wow” tea for me.

The dry cake is heavily compressed in some areas and very dark. The dry maocha is long and dark brown with some silver strands. I take in a dry grain with a subtle sweet scent from this cake. I placed a few chunks in warmed yixing and gave them a shake. The aroma that arose from my brewing vessel was of a classic young sheng. I could hint at a sweet caramel syrup with warm grass. I washed the leaves once and began my brewing. These steeped leaves have a strong roasted asparagus scent. The maocha unfurled into long green oily leaves. The taste was fantastic! This is the part that wowed me. The taste is dry and sweet, and there is a slight citrus background. This brew has an aggressive taste that is complex. I even experienced an almost herb mint taste in later steeping. The huigan is delayed but quite potent. There is also an intriguing bitterness that lingers after every sip. This flavor of this brew keeps changing. I can taste a dry herb with lemon one second and then floral with sweet honey. This was a very good sheng session,and I am so happy that I got this brew!

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I did at least 11 steeps of this (I always lose count, but I used up 35oz of water).. I’m feeling jingmai. Not exactly jingmai, mind you, but it’s what my mind thinks of when tasting this. There’s a soft bitterness, not punchy, and plays well with the innate sweetness of the tea. A soft floral/fruit note, syrupy, and a full mouthfeel. Not a tea drunk tea for me, but overall, very enjoyable. This could be the one that I order another cake of.

This tea is STRONG. Totally became tea drunk the first day I sessioned it. I was lightheaded, silly, my tummy gurgled, and afterward, I got sleepy! My first 8 or so steeps were all shorter than 25 seconds! Like I said, STRONG!

I used about 7g in my Jian Shui pot the first day and then steeped it in my shiboridashi the second day. I really enjoyed the flavor of this tea. I loved that there was a sweet note peaking out even in the early steeps. It also has great complexity, and by that I mean, it tastes like there are a lot of flavors, but I had trouble picking them all out. With the sweet note, there was also bitterness, but different than I’ve experienced in other sheng. It was like a note of bitterness playing nice with the other notes, rather than domineering them. The texture was also slightly oily throughout. On the second day, this tea was nice and sweet, a tropical fruit sweet, like pineapple or papaya. Delicious and definitely worth steeping it out fully. Just don’t do it all in one day! ;)

I found this tea to be quite soft-spoken, and of an exceptional quality. The body is thick, oily, with medium (and fast) bitterness. There is a sweet and lingering aftertaste, notes of stinky flowers, sweet cereal grains and olive oil. I suspect this comes from somewhere in or around Bing Dao, but what do I know?

I think this is my favorite young sheng at the moment. It’s so fruity and sweet and complex! Great after taste. How much leaf you use drastically alters the flavor profile in my experience. With less leaf it is refreshing and shares a similar flavor profile to some of the high mountain teas (like Mandala’s Wild Mountain Green). With more leaf its more like a Jingmai, but with less hay and smoke.

I think I might like this the best of W2T’s 2015 releases (but I haven’t tried 72 hours yet). The variety is good… but this is by far the best value tea as TwoDog states. It’s very easy to enjoy. While this might not be as strong of a body feel or after taste as some of the more expensive ones, as far as straight up flavors are concerned IYARTI2L takes the cake. Especially with a heavier leafing.

For me this is one of those holy shit teas. It blew me away.