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Up today is Green Miracle by yunnan sourcing. This is a tea Ive heard alot about and really wanted to try, so when they had their sale I picked some up. I started by first slowly working around the cake loosening the cake. Then I used a knife to pry into the cake slightly to try to work a big piece or two off, this is quiet a tightly packed cake and it was a bit tricky to get it to come apart.

When I finally did get it apart, I got 2 big pieces and a few extra leaves. I popped about 5-6 grams into my gaiwan, I wanted to use a neutral vessel to taste this the first time. A quick rinse at about 205 for 10 seconds. I tasted the wash and there wasnt too much dust in it, so I decided to just do a single wash. The wash was a bit weak, but had a nice woody, chocolate aroma.

First infusion I got a fairly dark ripe liquor, and the flavors intensified and smoothed out a little. Definitely one wash was the way to go here, as the flavors popped in the first infusion and it would have wasted good tea, I steeped for about 10 seconds and then tasted. Chocolate, sweetness, earthiness, caramel, and just a very smooth tea greeted me with this. It had absolutely no overpowering ripe or dankness to it, it was just solid and smooth.

The second infusion was much like the first though very slightly darker, the flavor profile was almost exactly the same. The leaves opened up a little and and darkened the liquor. Maybe it got a little sweeter.

The third infusion got darker still almost to black and this is fairly normal for ripe puerh tea. And interestingly a little tiny bit of bitterness creeps in at this point, which actually works really nice, not too much just a touch. Almost like a bittersweet chocolate which is still one of the primary flavors im getting.

The fourth infusion is almost a copy of the third, flash infusing it at this point, im pouring the water in and right out again and its still incredibly dark, this tea is going to get at least 10 infusions. The flavor is exactly the same as well. Dark bittersweet, this is a good tea to have after a meal or with desert, maybe instead of a coffee.. I bet this would be great with coffeecake.

Highly recommended, and the price is incredibly reasonable!