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This is the only tea that has given me a strong calming effect in every session, on top of this it has fresh notes of strawberry and grass. Steeping it hotter than recommended gave me notes of beetroot.

This isn’t a bad tea, but not an exciting one either. The body reminds me a lot of premium tianxia from the same vendor, but this lacks the citrusy edge that I really enjoy from the tianxia. As they’re the same price per gram, personally I would much rather have tianxia. In fact, if you buy a whole cake, tianxia is actually cheaper per gram because it’s 400 grams.

This is a really good aged sheng at a reasonable price point. I finished up 100g before ordering a whole cake, note that the cake is 400g as opposed to the more traditional 357g. Brewing in a large nixing pot from the same vendor really brings out the citrusy notes, and I get a lot of finished tea from 8g.

I bought a blended brick through Emmett, and he was kind enough to send me a free sample of this tea. I brewed the whole sample in my 120ml jianshui pot, and got a fantastic result. Some of the strongest qi I’ve ever felt along with mouthwatering aroma and a robust, thick body. I don’t have the budget for a whole cake of this, so this review is written based only on the experience I had with my sample, not bearing in mind the price.

It’s been a while since I last drank this tea, yet I vividly remember its forward aromas of pear and peaches. The roast had already settled nicely last year.