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“5.5g, 90 mL, ZZZ pot, water mix wet leaf: sweet smoke, maybe burnt baked goods… Spout clogged since the sample was mostly broken bits, so rinse was prob a bit too long, but didn’t sample even...” Read full tasting note
2024 Tasting Note: an aged pu-erh with elegant and substantial sweetness! The superb honey note has a little spiciness – like spicy-woody – to it, and also vanilla, with a hint of earth and organic matter. The taste is expansive on the palate, and the after-taste is long, lingering, and almost a light oily feeling in it! Although it is more than 25 years old, the texture is still solid and there are still kicks from the tannins to make it exciting.
It was labeled as 1998 vintage 8582 when I acquired this tea almost 18 years ago. In the yearbook “Pu Erh Xin Yun” p. 59 (see books for identification), it was recorded as late 90’s by the Meng Hai Factory:
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5.5g, 90 mL, ZZZ pot, water mix
wet leaf: sweet smoke, maybe burnt baked goods…
Spout clogged since the sample was mostly broken bits, so rinse was prob a bit too long, but didn’t sample even though it was tempting bc there was definitely some sort of cobwebs lol
1st: rich bitter, burnt chocolate kind of taste. Really threw me for a loop bc it called to mind some of the worst aged oolongs I sampled from LP’s aged oolong selection that mostly tasted burnt. feeling is nice, peaceful and slowed thoughts, in a lighter way than TWL’s 04 nannuo sample, but strong in that vein
2nd: similar. Not really a fan of the taste, where it’s not quite beet, but kind of dark grainy. A bit of acrid-ness and then some sugar finish
3-5: woody, root sweetness
Didn’t continue, since brew was significantly lightened. I guess it must be good tea, but I had mixed feelings about this session. Was really thrown off by the similarity in taste to a weird aged oolong i remember from some point in the past. Sample was $1.5/g i think, and there were a few cakes for sale at $450 for 357g, which I think is technically cheaper than market rate, but I had no desire to blind buy at that price. At any rate, even before my order was even shipped someone purchased all of them anyway.
