Another sample from Leafhopper, thank you :)
This is an Wuyi tea I can get behind. It’s too tannic and drying to want it everyday but it has a great expression of heavenly orchid, rainforest, and gingerbread aroma. The actual taste is cedar dominant and can be a little clunky at first as I work my way around the tannins and tartness but it smooths out in later steeps into a gently sweet, rounded character of hay, gooseberry, squash, leather and chamomile. The orchid and spice-rich aftertaste and energy spread throughout my head and upper body, eliciting a mellowed, unfocused mindstate. It’s like the way a high quality incense trails with a weightlessness through undisturbed air, wrapping its resinous tendrils around whatever comes within its path, infusing, permeating. A mood-altering tea with dense meditative energy.
Flavors: Apple, Bark, Blackberry, Blueberry, Burnt Sugar, Cacao, Cedar, Chamomile, Cookie, Drying, Floral, Ginger, Gooseberry, Hay, Incense, Leather, Malt, Molasses, Moss, Nutmeg, Orchid, Rainforest, Resin, Squash, Tannic, Tart, Wet Wood, Wintergreen, Woody
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As always, I’m impressed by your ability to detect nuance. For me, this was a daily drinker tea. I didn’t get any of the mood-elevating characteristics; I just noticed a rather vegetal but nice affordable Wuyi tea.
I got the resin and incense vibes in heavy doses too. It hovered between squash, ginger, cocoa, and fruit, though the tea was densed out by woody notes.
As always, I’m impressed by your ability to detect nuance. For me, this was a daily drinker tea. I didn’t get any of the mood-elevating characteristics; I just noticed a rather vegetal but nice affordable Wuyi tea.
I got the resin and incense vibes in heavy doses too. It hovered between squash, ginger, cocoa, and fruit, though the tea was densed out by woody notes.