Gongfu!
This was a gift shortly after I moved out to Montreal, and one of the older sheng pu’erh that I have in my stash. Twenty five years, in fact!! It’s highly aromatic with such an intensely deep, nuanced profile that I just fully melted right into from the first sips of the session. I get all sorts of earthy notes like petrichor, oak, decaying wood, rain-soaked soil, and earth caked garden beets as well as an almost numbing mix of spices like clove, allspice, vanilla with a punchy finish of camphor and sandalwood. However, absolute favourite notes of the session is this really fleshed out, anchoring flavour of antique, leather-bound books balanced out by whispy, fleeting tastes of smoke and incense. It makes me feel like I’ve retreated deep into some old parlor room or study on a dark, stormy day just lost in a good book!
Tea Photos: https://www.instagram.com/p/DHmKuzcy-9X/?img_index=1
Song Pairing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1u_hL11auM&ab_channel=HozierVEVO
I find your notes on this sheng to be quite bewitching! You’ve transported me somewhere I can’t quite identify, but I sure like it! I feel like I could give a few turns to the bedknob and be taken from Miss Price’s stone abode off to an adventure on Portobello Road! Thanks for evoking childhood memories of Bedknobs and Broomsticks!