Drinking this for the first time in about a year. This is still an excellent tea. It had been dry stored as I never found space for it in my pumidor. I find that New York storage is just fine for my shou but perhaps a little lacking for my sheng. This one was initially bitter but soon developed an underlying sweetness to it. There was also for the first two steepings a bit of a sour note. This I attribute to dry storage. I stopped at eight steepings because I decided I had had enough caffeine for the day but this tea would certainly go fifteen steeps if pushed. Drinking the eighth steep now. The bitterness is basically gone leaving that underlying sweetness right on top. This is a very good tea.
I steeped this eight times in a 150ml gaiwan with 9.1g leaf and boiling water. I gave it a 10 second rinse. I steeped it for 5 sec, 5 sec, 7 sec, 10 sec, 15 sec, 20 sec, 25 sec, and 30 sec.
