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“One of the more interesting TheTea’s 2021 sheng selection. This tea shines in its complex residual fragrance, whether it is in the cup or in the long aftertaste. Additionally, I also like its airy,...” Read full tasting note
This tea – 2021 Secret Forest Gushu Sheng Puerh – comes from the tropical forest located in Yunnan near the Laos border. The maker wants to keep the origin in secret. I chose that tea in spring blind maocha tasting when I tasted more than 25 samples from different places in Xishuangbanna.
You know… I like to have all possible information about the tea but this time I need to handle the “mystery”.
This is rather challenging tea.
Quite small leaves where the youngest leaves are nicely oval shaped smell sweet- with notes of fruit candies and floral freshness.
It starts slowly with excellent sweet jade like liquor but after second brew it opens to powerful and strong tea.
Huigan is so fast – just after swallowing the tea you can taste the amazing sweetness. Salivating effect is strong.
Taste: fresh, grassy with notes reminding me pomelo and grapefruit with their specific citrusy bitterness. When you try to eat the grapefruit seed… I mean this kind of bitterness.
In 2021 batch bitterness is more gentle than one you can find in 2020 SF cake, but it’s still present!
Some herbal notes are here too.
Energy… I can only say I can’t drink it in the evening – it’s very strong: invigorating and making you tea drunk instantly.
Before ordering cake we recommend to try the sample first.
Origin: unknown, we only know the trees grows in north east of Xishuangbanna near the Laos Border, Yunnan, China.
Vintage/Harvest: April 2021
Tea vartietal: Camellia Sinensis var Assamica
Tea trees age: gushu trees at least 200 years old.
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TheTeaOne of the more interesting TheTea’s 2021 sheng selection. This tea shines in its complex residual fragrance, whether it is in the cup or in the long aftertaste. Additionally, I also like its airy, albeit somewhat unfocussed energy. As it is not very rushy for a fresh sheng, it can work well for meditations.
The aroma in the pot is really good too – sweet and forest like with a touch of gasoline. In the empty cup, it is sweet, nutty and flowery. There, I could further detect notes of pear pastries as well as sunflower and fenugreek seeds.
The taste is pungent, quite vegetal and bitter, with really nice huigan. While earlier steeps have more grainy flavour, later ones are sweeter with notes of yeast and sunflowers. The liquor has a coating and somewhat watery texture, and a mineral, cooling feel to it.
Flavors: Bitter, Floral, Flowers, Nutty, Pastries, Pear, Sweet, Vegetal, Yeast
