Puerh Tea TTB. This is the first tea I am drinking from the box. The first couple of infusions were light yellow in color with the taste of a totally non bitter young sheng. At first I was unsure if I was really drinking an aged tea. After about the fourth steep the leaves had fully opened up and it took on the color of an aged sheng, a dark amber brown. I noticed that Grill mentioned storage taste in this tea. I did not find what is commonly called wet wood or wet storage taste. There was a spicy note however that was quite strong and prevalent throughout the first eight or ten steeps. It never completely went away even after fifteen steeps. It did however mellow out. There was a flavor in the middle steeps that I just call aged flavor. It crept in but I don’t know how to describe it. This tea was smooth despite the spicy taste. I think I would even say there was a taste of camphor in there. I am currently feeling the effects of this tea’s qi. I would not use the term tea drunk but it is quite relaxing. This is definitely a tea I will want to look into buying, don’t actually know how much it costs.
I steeped this tea 15 times in a 60ml gaiwan with 4.2g leaf and boiling water. I gave it a 10 second rinse and a 10 minute rest. Even so it took several steeps for this tea to open up. I steeped it for 5 sec, 5 sec, 7 sec, 10 sec, 15 sec, 20 sec, 25 sec, 30 sec, 45 sec, 1 min, 1.5 min, 2 min, 2.5 min, 3 min, and 3.5 min. The tea was pretty much played out at fifteen steeps but I probably could have gotten one or two more steeps out of it.
Flavors: Spicy
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Interesting review.
I wonder if some of the storage flavors dissipated after the sample aired out? It’s been opened by a few people at this point.
I did not get a note of wet wood but it is possible the spicy note was a storage note. Typically I find the note of wet wood where there is wet storage taste.
Spiciness is sometimes associated with Malaysian storage. I got it a bit in the Green Stamp they used to sell.
Interesting the Essence of Tea website says this was stored in Malaysia.
Interesting review.
I wonder if some of the storage flavors dissipated after the sample aired out? It’s been opened by a few people at this point.
I did not get a note of wet wood but it is possible the spicy note was a storage note. Typically I find the note of wet wood where there is wet storage taste.
Spiciness is sometimes associated with Malaysian storage. I got it a bit in the Green Stamp they used to sell.
Interesting the Essence of Tea website says this was stored in Malaysia.