Every session with this tea is a special and unique one. It has a superb depth of flavours and overall gives an intense experience with strong presence in the mouth and a long-lasting aftertaste.
Often as pu-erh tea ages out of its youthful stage, it loses a its floral complexity in the dry leaf aroma. I don’t find that to be happening so much. There is a good complexity to the sweet, herbaceous scent with a note of tropical fruits. After the rinse, the scent reminds me of old green tea, but also peat, chicory, compost, bay leaves, and apples. The tea leaves a strong aroma also in the cup, where one can smell honey notes.
The liquor has a buttery, numbing and mouth-watering presence with an astringent finish. The taste is brothy and savoury at first. There is a vegetal aftertaste with notes of leek, peppers and umami that is also a bit spicy and sort of salty. Later steeps are more floral and bitter and remind me of FF Darjeeling tea a bit. There are also flavours of celery stalk, sugar beet and amber ale. The aftertaste becomes very intense at times. It’s character is mix of sweet and savoury ones.
Flavors: Apple, Bay Leaf, Beer, Bitter, Bread, Broth, Celery, Chicory, Compost, Floral, Green Bell Peppers, Herbaceous, Honey, Leeks, Peat, Pepper, Salty, Spicy, Sugar, Sweet, Tea, Tropical Fruit, Umami, Vegetal
