Starting this out with an 8 gram sample. The dry leaf has a nice sweet aroma to it.
Using the duanni clay pot. I warmed the pot and poured the water out and tossed in the leaves. Aroma get sweeter in the steam.
Flash rinse and the aroma intensifies with more of the sweet aroma with some honey in there. First steep very quick into the cup. The teas seems well processed as there wasn’t much char in the filter. First sips, sweet , floral , honey in there some mineral and some middle tongue notes.
Second steep, tea gets much thicker and active. Still the underlying sweetness. The bitter has crept in which means shorter steeps as I continue.
I paused a few minutes to soak in. Aftertaste is pretty nice on this one.
Third steep, still strength in this one. Sweet and bitter mixing in. A little of the mineral slips back in as well. Still clean in the filter and the leaf is slowly starting to unfurl.

Flavors: Bitter, Floral, Honey, Mineral, Sweet, Thick

Preparation
Boiling 0 min, 15 sec 8 g 5 OZ / 150 ML
Sqt

Ooh interesting, still waiting for my sample to arrive!

mrmopar

@Sqt I think the tea will be to your liking. I used Spring water and my little clay pot to brew.

Sqt

Thanks, will likely do the same :)

TeaLH

A comment on minerality. Many times I have hard time determining if a mineral taste belongs to the tea or the water. Specially when it appears after few steeps, when the tea taste itself starts to fade out. Any thoughts on that?

mrmopar

It may have been the water. We have a spring close to us that I use to brew my tea with. In my case it show up in the late steeps.

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Sqt

Ooh interesting, still waiting for my sample to arrive!

mrmopar

@Sqt I think the tea will be to your liking. I used Spring water and my little clay pot to brew.

Sqt

Thanks, will likely do the same :)

TeaLH

A comment on minerality. Many times I have hard time determining if a mineral taste belongs to the tea or the water. Specially when it appears after few steeps, when the tea taste itself starts to fade out. Any thoughts on that?

mrmopar

It may have been the water. We have a spring close to us that I use to brew my tea with. In my case it show up in the late steeps.

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