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“4g, 175mL(?) KamJove. Yeah it’s low ratio. Can’t handle too much young sheng, but still can’t help but indulge once in a while. Quick boiling rinse, w Brita tap. Sometimes boiling, sometimes not....” Read full tasting note
“Gongfu! Finally trying 2020 Fortune Teller after what I’m pretty sure was over a year of teasers and built up hype on the part of W2T!! My first impression of this sheng puerh is that it’s actually...” Read full tasting note
Fortune Teller is a blend of high end material from spring of 2016, which we pressed in 2020 and has been in our Guangzhou natural storage since.
Aged flavor and smooth soup with unbeatable value for mid-aged tea lovers. Strong feeling, layered aromas and persistent returning sweetness in the mouth, Fortune Teller is the perfect combination of affordability and age for daily drinking.
Each cake is 200 grams. The cakes are wrapped in bamboo leaf tongs, with five cakes per tong.
4g, 175mL(?) KamJove. Yeah it’s low ratio. Can’t handle too much young sheng, but still can’t help but indulge once in a while. Quick boiling rinse, w Brita tap. Sometimes boiling, sometimes not. Not focused today. Maocha is from Paul’s mystery box. This still tastes mostly young. Standard basic young sheng notes: dried apricot and peachiness, some mintiness. Some dried apple like notes. Not particularly bitter, quite sweet. Decent mouthfeel. Some warming initially, but very cold after.
Would like to do a normal ratio session run, but it might be a while before I get around to it since it’s not entirely in the sort of comfortable to drink age yet.
Gongfu!
Finally trying 2020 Fortune Teller after what I’m pretty sure was over a year of teasers and built up hype on the part of W2T!! My first impression of this sheng puerh is that it’s actually surprisingly pretty crisp, sweet and vegetal with notes of lightly grilled fennel bulb, artichoke, and iceberg lettuce immediately coming to mind. There’s a pleasant gentle bitterness and astringency to the thicker soup, and even with some pretty long steeps – because of that WFH multitasking – it never got gnarly and unpleasant!! This seems stylistically so different from the type of sheng I would reach for often, but I have a few others in my tea stash that remind me of this one. Plus, I do actually reach for them more often than I typically give myself credit for so (based on this session, anyway) I’m actually stoked to add this one to that rotation!
Tea Photos: https://www.instagram.com/p/CcQuUnguVh2/
Song Pairing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMTogWj4ywQ&ab_channel=phebestarr
