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“4.4g, 90 ml ZZZ wet: incense, floral, smoky sweet, fruity 1. medicinal/incense bitter. minty floral aroma in mouth. something like powdered sugar in taste. soothing in head before flowing downwards...” Read full tasting note
This tea is produced by a small Hong Kong teahouse that has been in the business for more than a hundred years. The maker of this tea, Ms. Connie Ngai, spends around 6 weeks every spring in northern Yiwu to press one line of cakes per year from the same area, a high altitude old forest “yesheng” gushu on land which is now part of the state-protected “guoyoulin” forest. As a result, this tea is a single-origin but internally blended tea. Ms. Ngai has several decades of experience producing puerh tea, but also drinking and studying aged puerh, oolong and white tea.
We feel it is important to carry this tea, not only to demonstrate a different part of Yiwu than one usually finds from most Taiwanese makers, and not only because of the powerfully good base material, but also to show an excellent blending and processing style, aimed at showing this tea at its best for the long term.
For those who have tried the 2006 DTH Yiwu, this tea is similar, but with stronger compression and with slightly more smoke. A powerful tea, with excellent material, processing, and storage.
Single cake of approximately 400 grams, in a white wrapper.
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4.4g, 90 ml ZZZ
wet: incense, floral, smoky sweet, fruity
1. medicinal/incense bitter. minty floral aroma in mouth. something like powdered sugar in taste. soothing in head before flowing downwards and dispersing. settling
2. maybe I’m tripping, but something about this reminds me of YQH house taste except this is more complex and incense and not just mushroom. Soup not super thick today. Strangely happy for a bit, maybe the caffeine is hitting. Strong, comforting just pausing and sitting in place for a bit
3. honeyed medicinal
4-6. taste is too close to YQH. but feeling is nice. good warmth. some floral backend
7. resin, bitter. Had to take a break to eat something
8. lightened. will push a bit next steep
9. some leafy taste, but could still go further. Warm still, but feeling harsh in the stomach now, so will stop.
Quite lovely today. Maybe I will bring this out for guests next time.
Would love to try this one – just so cost prohibitive! Glad you enjoyed it :)
Yes, certainly not cheap! I try to rationalize it as $8 for 2 hours of entertainment every so often. My friends were telling me last weekend that they consider paying $9 for their favorite drinks (something about mango coconut and triple matcha) at Heytea very reasonable, as an outside reference. Which is wild to me, but to each their own.
Assuming you’re US based, once shipping opens back up, would recommend finding a friend (or three…) to split this and/or the 2006, which are supposed to be the favorites.