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A very nice medium-bodied young sheng with notes of pine, spice, citrus and tart stone fruits in the cup. On some later steeps I also picked up some Granny Smith apples and a faint herbaceous quality. The flavors were not too complex, but the aromas were! As the session progressed I smelled pine sap, split pea soup, cinnamon, apple pie, Meyer lemons, honeydew melon, lemon meringue pie and loquat. I did the session with fairly short steeps (5/7/9/11/… seconds).

The most outstanding quality for me is how this tea reacted with my Qi. After the first three steeps I had to walk away for a number of hours because I had so much energy I could no longer sit still. That happened again after the next four steeps as well, but to a lesser degree. I was able to finish the session (steeps 8 through 19) in one sitting since the energy had subsided a bit by then. This would be a good tea to drink when I have to get up and get things done.

Mandala notes that the tea is very young and not incredibly complex, and my session bore that out. As of this writing a 357 gram cake is only $37, so it might be worth putting one away for a few years to see what it does.

Flavors: Citrus, Herbaceous, Pine, Spicy, Tart

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 7 g 3 OZ / 100 ML
Nicole

Those look very large. :)

TeaExplorer

Nicole — It’s deceiving. I should have put something in there for scale. Those are on the lid of my little 100ml gaiwan, which is 3 inches (7.5 cm) across.

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Nicole

Those look very large. :)

TeaExplorer

Nicole — It’s deceiving. I should have put something in there for scale. Those are on the lid of my little 100ml gaiwan, which is 3 inches (7.5 cm) across.

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