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Dunno… maybe I got a bad one or it still needs to develop. The aftertaste was kinda sour a year ago and its only a bit less so now. It did develop some spicyness though so I think I’ll let it wait a year more…

Wtf is this ? O_o The stuff is like energizer on steroids… you drink one cup and you’re set for the day :)

Really, what a fun tea. Looks like a bunch of bird’s feathers when dry, kinda tomboyish when brewed. As in – you sip a little, nothing special, you gulp and only after the tea is down there is when you actually have the taste explosion in your mouth :)

It is really amazing how different can this yunnan be between when bitterness kicks in and before it. Its almost like 20 more seconds of steeping change the tea to a different variety. Cant say I don’t like it when steeped for a longer time, but short steepings is where this one truly shines. Definitely not the one for western brewing.

Finally finishing my initial order of this :) Kind of become a “go to” tea for me – whenever I do not feel like drinking anything in particular I’d brew this and be happy :) Extremely easy to brew, always good however much oversteeped… I seriously think David needs to reintroduce this to the selection…

I discovered something interesting today. If I brew this with the usual amount of leaves(for a black tea) and gongfu style – I don’t like this tea at all. But I quite like it made western style. Nothing insane but at least the cup was nice.

So hard to explain a difference between green and oolong tea to normal ppl… TGY is probably one of the closest to greens in taste of Oolong family but still very much different. Which I am reminded of every time I drink good TGY like this one. No astringency, very round and buttery taste (although not as buttery as Autumn ’11 harvest) strong, developed foreground. Although I ’m more of a “black” person, a cup or two of this TGY is always good idea.

This has been a very nice year (having discovered steepster/verdant) so, surprisingly enough I still have some of this tea. It’s been more than a year after it’s been picked by now but, interestingly, I cannot really say that it got stale. If anything – it matured :)

Interesting. Aged silver needles seem to have picked sweetness somewhere which actually makes this tea tolerable for me. I am still no fan, but at least I can enjoy the taste.

And the individual leaves are so fluffy… :)

It just occured to me how similar the taste of this tea is to Shou Mei white tea, am I going crazy?:)