I’m really not certain if I liked this tea or not. It had definitely aged a fair bit. Very dark colored tea soup and plenty of aged taste. The problem is I don’t know how to describe the aged taste. It had no wet storage taste. It got better as I resteeped it. I guess I might hazard to say notes of hay and tobacco? Don’t know if that is an accurate description. I’m on the fence about this one in general. I have not completely decided that I like aged sheng or not. It’s nice that there were no notes of wet wood in there anyway. Usually White2Tea’s older stuff is wet stored so that is surprising.
I steeped this ten times in a 120ml gaiwan with 8.2g leaf and boiling water. I gave it a 10 second rinse and a 10 minute rest. I steeped it for 5 sec, 5 sec, 7 sec, 10 sec, 15 sec, 20 sec, 25 sec, 30 sec, 45 sec, and 1 min. The tea was starting to lose some color at ten steeps but I’m sure I could get a few more out of it if I hadn’t already had too much caffeine.
