Brewed up some of this for the first time yesterday! :D A good friend of mine (and the first local friend I’ve been able to find that also really likes ‘fine’ teas!) was round, so I decided to finally break a bit of the cake off! It’s lovely and compressed, so it was easy enough to break off a little 4/5g piece to brew up (in my beloved Verdant Gaiwan).
It was really delicious :D I think we probably got through six or seven steepings over a few rounds of Magic the Gathering (which, I confess, I lost most of… I think it finished 6-3 or 6-4 overall…). Still, this was a lovely tea to share with a good friend :D I’ll brew it up again, at some point in the future, and focus on it more (and maybe take some notes, etc.), but I certainly do remember it having a surprisingly buttery flavour. It was a really ‘smooth’ sheng puerh, compared to others I’ve had – definitely not when compared with a shu puerh or a smooth white tea, but far more so than other sheng puerhs that I’ve tried. It was also a little sweeter, too, which was really interesting! :D
Flavors: Butter, Sweet
