90

Dry – Earthy and woody, very straight forward, very faint medicinal.
Wet – Earth, strong earth-wood and medicinal bitterness, thick, some musky scent, mellow smoke. (Evolves into a more creamy, earthy, licorice and sweet scent).

First two steeps are earthy with strong bitter earthy-woody notes with a medicinal base and very apparent creamy thickness and a sweet Huigan.

In the following steeps the medicinal root notes take the front with tobacco-wood notes and faint smoke. As it goes down it is mellow, thick/creamy and sweet with camphor. Oddly enough, even though it is refreshing it has a lingering thickness almost oily/buttery.

Later steeps (pushing the same day and continued the next day) are still thick with earthy tobacco/medicinal notes and very smooth, thick body. The buttery/oily body linger with sweet and refreshing Huigan.

Final Notes
This was very pleasant, I’ve never had a ripe with such apparent oily body. I’ve had creamy/thick ones which in contras seem more residual on the tongue but this was sort of slippery on the tongue :P

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Flavors: Creamy, Earth, Licorice, Medicinal, Sweet, Thick, Wood

Preparation
Boiling 6 g 3 OZ / 100 ML
boychik

I love your blog. I do the tasting in porcelain gaiwan too. In fact I think I use it more than any thing else. Sorry for your loss of a good friend :(

JC

Thanks for reading! I miss that Gaiwan, it was good holding heat and the porcelain lining made it great. BTW, you should try this tea if you get the opportunity, I just ordered from 1992 Xiaguan Shu Brick from W2T to compare.

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boychik

I love your blog. I do the tasting in porcelain gaiwan too. In fact I think I use it more than any thing else. Sorry for your loss of a good friend :(

JC

Thanks for reading! I miss that Gaiwan, it was good holding heat and the porcelain lining made it great. BTW, you should try this tea if you get the opportunity, I just ordered from 1992 Xiaguan Shu Brick from W2T to compare.

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I’ve been drinking tea for about 8-10 years now, but Puerh for about 7-8 years. I love learning and I love the people who ae passionate about it. This is a constant learning field and I love that too. I’m mostly in to Puerh, Black tea and Oolongs but I do enjoy other types from time to time.

I’m adding the scale because I noted that we all use the same system but it doesn’t mean the same to all.(I rate the tea not by how much I ‘like it’ only; there are flavors/scents I don’t like but they are quality and are how they are supposed to be and I rate them as such).

90 – 100: AMAZING. This the tea I feel you should drop whatever you are doing and just enjoy.

80-89: Great tea that I would recommend because they are above ‘average’ tea, they usually posses that ‘something’ extra that separates them from the rest.

70-79: An OK tea, still good quality, taste and smell. For me usually the tea that I have at work for everyday use but I can still appreciate and get me going through my day.

60-69: Average nothing special and quality is not high. The tea you make and don’t worry about the EXACT time of steep because you just want tea.

30-59: The tea you should probably avoid, the tea that you can mostly use for iced tea and ‘hide’ what you don’t like.

1-29: Caveat emptor! I feel sorry for my enemies when they drink this tea. :P

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