This tea is rank, and dank, and gnarly. I understand what a previous review meant with his shou comparison – this is a tea for a cold, dark day, not when it’s still summer (in the Gregorian sense). I will endeavour to revisit this in the early part of the new year, and I’ll be letting it breathe until then.
Lest you misconstrue, however, I believe there’s a very fine tea hiding under here, or I wouldn’t bother.
Bonus note – I cold brewed the mostly spent leaves for over 10 hours today, and it tasted like liquid leather. Quite nice, actually!
Rated M for moist.
