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This is a very nice tasting inexpensive tuocha. I would not call it spectacular but it was very nice. There was a fair amount of fermentation flavor that lasted about four steeps. There was just a hint of bitterness. And there was an evolving sweet note throughout all ten steeps. At one point I thought of chestnuts but this is only an interpretation. I didn’t use quite as much tea as usual so the brew was a little light but still very tasty, not watery.

I steeped this ten times in a 160ml solid silver teapot with 10.2g 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, 30 sec, 45 sec, and 1 minute.