2006 Yang Qing Hao Tian Pin

This 2006 Yang Qing Hao Tian Pin goes for $790.00 for 500g cake or $1.58/g.

Dry leaves have a very creamy woody strawberry very sweet odour.

Rinsed leaves have a peaty sweetness to them.

First infusion has a woody peaty sweet almost brassy bready taste with tingling mouthfeel and wet tongue salivating evolving sweet wet return with layered honey tastes over a thicker chalky fuller mouthfeeling.  Chest beats slow strong. Energy boost.

Second has a creamy woody a bit oily sweetness. Woody almost peat and pungent with an evolving lower honey sweetness. Chest beats and slowing breath mild energy boost.

Third infusion has a sweet honey peat I set full chalky mouthfeel.  Cooled down is a peat sweet almost honey in a chalky mouthfeel faint cool breath. Mild energy boost with chest and breathing slowed.

Fourth is a sour not that sweet peat not really honey but sort of vegital sort of bitter.  Bitter woody peat.  Thicker chalky feeling in mouth. Not much sweet taste but faint honey hard to grasp returning.

5th has a bitter bland vegital faint sweet sort of honey taste.  Some mild energy boost.  Faint return of sweetness under chalky bitter woody peat.

6th infusion has a watery bland woody taste…. Not too much left in here at only 6 infusion.  Some chest beats deep breathing.  Silty full chalky mouth faint lingering.cooled down its honey woody bland with full chalky taste.

7th infusion has a woody wet bland not thee see t honey sweet taste. Faint almost coco finish. Mild energy boost with mild chest beats.

8th is a long mug steeping which has a sweet rich oily wet texture nice smooth oil slick with trail off sweetness and some faint bitter coco subtle strawberry and cherries fruit hidden in there.

Smooth Gushu type of experience here…

Peace

2006 Yang Qing Hao Tian Hsiang Pao Pin

This 2006 Yang Qing Hao Tian Xiang Baopin goes for $390.00 for super big 600g cake or $0.65/g…. This is another I’ve always wanted to try…

Dry leaves have a creamy woody almost metalic odour.

Rinsed leaves have a sweet darker cherry bread sweetness. 

First infusion is a watery very mild sweet icing sugar almost fruity water.  Some faint icing sugar finish slight cool breath. Faint mild watery with talc creamy sweet finish. Soft sticky mild lips.  Peaceful feeling with mild chest upward Qi motion.

Second infusion left to cool is sweet cooling pungent minty oily watery mouthfeeling.  Almost floral almost fruity sweet sort of mild icing sugar sweetness with mild deep throat opening.  Peaceful almost calling trance.

Third infusion has an oily creamy icing sugar almost vegital minty mild sweet onset with mild deep throat opening hard to grasp taste that is mainly sweet and pungent sort of floral creamy.  Peaceful feeling with shoulders tingling and upwards chest and shoulders movement.

Fourth infusion has a creamy chalky mild coco chocolate taste.  Cooled down it has a milk chocolate cake taste.  Peaceful rising feeling.

Fifth infusion has a creamy chocolate oily wet mouth taste.  Oily wet coco taste.  Soft mouthfeel and faint deep throat opening.

6th infusion left to cool is a sweet wet watery taste with lingering and developing dark cocoa taste in wet mouth.  Upward movement peaceful feeling. Oily mouthfeel some deeper throat oily flavours of sweet coco.  

7th has a smooth coco almost vegital taste with oily wet coating returning mild coco.  Peaceful uplifting qi.  

8th is a long mug steeping and it has a resin coco almost floral taste with rising upward energy as if the chest and throat are moving up to the head… wild unique and very distinct body feelings Throughout the session here.  I really like this part of this tea.

…. Might pick one of these up next time…

Peace

2006 Yang Qing Hao Wu Shang Miao Pin

 

Fak!!!!! In my sample ordering from a year ago they were between sites and somehow missed the order of the only sample I really really wanted to try … the 2005 Wu Shang Miao Pin…. Oh well here we are at the 2006 Yang Qing Hao Wu Shang Miao Pin that goes for $900.00/500g cake or $1.80/g…

Dry leaves have a very creamy sweet odour.

First infusion has a creamy sweet pure cresting to fluffy creamy candy airy sweet taste.  Light airy fluffy strong pure candy sweetness.  Some almost vegital- melon.  Strawberry talc.  Juicy melon return candy.  Floating bodyfeeling and space out mind.

Second has a very sweet candy melon with a talc and woody menthol finish with pucker-dry mild tight mouthfeeling. Cooled down its creamy almost sour melon with a slight smdrying mouthfeel nice returning sweetness of candy melon.   Floating feeling with some face sweating.

Third infusion has a creamy melon sweet taste slight drug mouthfeel. Returning candy melon .  Spacy and floating qi.

4th is a creamy sweet woody with spacy mind and floating body. Cooled down its creamy almost candy woody with nice creamy candy returning taste.  Melon creamy candy.  Mouthfeel is more sticky than dry now.  Shoulders descend. Spacy high with mild body floating.

5th infusion has a creamy melon sweet onset chest light and body floating feeling some face mild warmth and sweating. Strong spaced out feeling like out of body.

6th woody watery melon sweet slight chalky puckering/dry but finishes creamy candy.  Spacy strong floating feeling.  Cooled down it is a creamy smooth melon almost talc mineral woody. 

7th has a smooth creamy sweet taste with melon and creamy sweet taste.  Slight cool breath chalky fluffy mouthfeel. Spacy high! 

8th is a long mug steeping and it is wet resin woody herby oily with a lower sweet oily taste. Sweet finish overall oily sweetness.

Peace

2006 Yang Qing Hao Qi Xiang:Again!

This is a go to drinker yea in my house. I like the unpredictable blend of this one which I have wrote about a few times previously on this blog…

From purchase a few years ago from Yang’s storage…Dry leaves have a sweet woody almost floral sweet odour with faint deeper leaf peat odours.

Rinsed leaves have a very sweet creamy floral almost salty pungent odour…, yummy

First infusion has a creamy complex salty woody metalic floral complex blended taste … lots of things… mainly lots of layered sweet taste creamy and candy and floral… silty full sticky lips and deep throat mild opening feeling complex again! Floating and mind expanding bodyfeeling.  Strong chest beats feel enlivening.  Strong energy feeling!

Second infusion is a creamy salty woody dirt creamy sweet deep dark and light all in one with a silty slight puckering dry lips and slight cooling opening throat.  Creamy floral almost reminds me that there must be more ManZhuang in this blend some infusions.  Wet mouth and slight dry balance in mouth with an overall complex taste feel and Qi big chest beats energy with uplifting body and shoulders face tingling.

Third infusion has a very sweet melon creamy sweet onset with a bready salty finish.  Salivating and wetness with sticky driness.  Strong chest beats energy. Floating levitating energizing. Clear focus mind and vision happy feeling- complex lots of things going on at once. Cooled down infusion is very cherry creamy pastry sweet with cake creamy candy sweet taste over salty woody layers with cool mild pungent sweet lingering.

Fourth infusion has a sweet honey creamy salty woody layers.  Big beats in the chest and energetic uplift.  Cooled down it tastes real sweet with a fruity melon creamy sweet pastry bready taste.  Woody salty depth.  Uplifting and relaxing with deep sighs. 

5th is salty woody sweet bread pastry mouthwater saliva producing sticky lips.  Complex taste tilts toward sweetness. Qi is mainly energizing but also relaxing.  Mouthfeel is full salivating slight sticky lips.

6th is left to cool is a sweet creamy woody savory with a cake pastry sweet finish that increasingly reminds me of Manzhuan.  Long candy creamy cake aftertaste. Chalky mouthfeel with sticky lips.  Creamy sweet chalky almost dark coco and cake savory. Upbeat and energetic but also slightly relaxing.

7th has a sour sweet fruity mellon taste savory base with woody but mainly layered sweet tastes nice sweetness and pastry bready sweet taste. Nice aftertaste of sweet candy breads salty creamy fruits.  Uplifting and relaxing with face relax and shoulders with mild chest beats and feeling.  Cooled down it is a creamy sweet initial taste that is supported by a savory salty base in a chalky full mouthfeel some mild deep throat opening and lingering candy creamy sweet tastes.

8th left to cool is sweet honey creamy candy bready pastry…. Lots of layering of sweetness.  Longer sweet mold finish. Spacy relaxing feeling here.

9th oops left the water on the leaves for a few minutes there… strong cherry plum fruity sweet with bitterness and some astringency.. sour cherries taste.., full mouthfeel with savoury body…pops of sweet taste saliva producing a bit dry and sticky in the mouth cooling deep throat pastry sweet finish.

10th I put into a long mug steeping… it is woody salty savoury with a deeper sweetness. Some bitter coco and mild astringency.  Silty full mouthfeeling.  Deep dark tasting clouds sweetness.

What’s not to love about this one?

Again please!

Peace

L

2020 Meng Xiang Geng Kan

 

Oh boy…. It’s been crazy busy in my life this winter…. I always say “ a good busy”…. As far as evaluating teas… Mainly I worked on sampling the complete Yang Qing Hao catalogue but didn’t finish it but have lots of posts to come on that! It seems things have slowed down for a bit here so if that pace continues… expect these posts to drop to come fast…

 Tiago of Tea Encounter was excited to send me the latest-  an early spring tasting of something still showing some fresher signs but starting into semi-aged.  I sampled it in the middle of a cold snap at the end of winter but it just seemed like the wrong tea to drink at that time…. So I sampled it again in the warmer Springtime and was pretty satisfying… 

Dry leaves have a sweet layering of honey and fresh fruits with a deep sweet pungency.

Rinsed leaves have a pungent piercing sweetness with a tropical orange sweetness sometimes a fruity banana and fresh fruits odour.  Smells familiar like Lincang even Bing Dao I have tried before even a familiar dry storage odour… 

First infusion has a nutty a bit salty tropical fruity bananas in a wet slippery feeling mouth with a background of spice.  Eyes and forehead expanding unique bodyfeeling. Chest expanding.  Tropical fruits left in the aftertaste.  

Tonnes of mouthwatering and juicy viscus saliva producing.  Spacy feel good.  Metallic salivating even a salty taste.  

Second infusion has a smooth fruity taste over a slippery mouthfeel.  Big chest swelling and tropical fruity but mainly an orange aftertaste with background spice and pungency.  Dense taste with a bitterness lingering in the background.  Lots of in-mouth taste and feeling less in-throat.  

Third infusion is left to cool and comes off tropical fruity sweet with a dense almost quick bitterness. Spacy mind.  Slippery a nice chest beats with an uplifting mood feeling.

Fourth infusion has a melon smooth tropical fruity dense taste hard to reach not real bitterness. Full oily viscus mouthfeel. Space out Qi.  Uplifting mood.

Fifth infusion has a bitter sour fruit onset. There is an oily feeling in the mouth with a low evolving bitter sour orange taste. Spacy qi feeling with open chest. Uplifting but lore spaced out focus. Shoulders a bit heavy and mind slowing a bit now.  

Sixth infusion has a sour fruity taste.  Wet almost bitterness in the mouth that fades away hard to grasp. Spacy mind chest mild feeling with heavy shoulder.

Seventh infusion has a bitter sour fruitiness.  Spacy mind. Some chesty beats.

Eighth sour sweet tropical fruity onset in an oily broth.  Mouthfeel but not much in the throat. Spaced out mind with done nice heart beats. Fruity sour almost bitter finish.

9th is left to cool and is still sour sweet fruity.  Chalky wet mouthfeel.  Spaced out feeling.

10th has a sweet tropical fruity oily slippery full oily taste spaced out relaxing too.

11th is is an overnight mug steeping of spent leaves… it has an orange sweet citrus blossoms juicy sweet taste.  Viscus juicy orange.  Spacy feeling. Has the taste and feel of something Western Xishuangbanna … or maybe Lincang… yummy and Spacy.

I sampled this one blind but it turns out it is a Lincang, Da Xue Shan! This 2020 Meng Shan Geng Kan goes for $86.20 for 357g cake or $0.24/g

Peace

2005 Yang Qing Hao “Old Tree” Limited

 I only had a small sample of this 7 tong production when I tried this back in 2021.  But for the sake of anyone interested here is the link to the notes….

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2005 Yang Qing Hao Yiwu Cha Wang (Houde Stored)

 

This 2005 Yang Qing Hao Cha Wang sample is not from Yang’s storage it’s been dry stored by Houde in Huston for a few decades-ish.  I sampled it a few years ago here on the blog here but thought to retaste as I go through the Yang Qing Hao experience here…

Dry leaves have a sweet faint woody almost purfume spice.

Rinsed leaves have a purfume strawberries and almost resin odour.

First infusion has a woody sweet resin taste. With a faint spice finish.  Long sweet raisin and resin… ha. Dried grit raisin with calm and chest beats slowness. Peaceful mind release.

Second infusion has a perfume spice strawberries mild sweet taste. Sort of strawberry jam with cooling throat. Sweet slight raisins and slight resin. Slight tight feeling in the mouth and throat calming peaceful bliss moderate Qi feeling.  

Third infusion has a strawberries mild woody resin taste creamy spice the flavour is a bit lighter and less dense than many other Yang Qing Hao.  Bubbling light chest and slower heart beats with blissed out peaceful feeling. Cooled down has a bit more mild sweetness melon, cherry, strawberry with spice and perfume resin.  Bubbling light chest and slower heart beats beats.  Faint candy return.

Fourth is left to cool with a chalky gritty creamy talc.  Strawberry mild creamy almost candy finish.  Happy bliss vibes.  Mild chest feeling.  Smooth enjoyable Yiwu that is maybe a bit lacking in bodyfeeling but others wise a nice solid Yiwu experience.

Fifth has a chalky sweet talc sandy woody taste.  Mild purfume.  Chill peaceful relaxing vibes.  Woody spice purfume base mild taste with a soft barley drying sandy mouthfeel.

Sixth infusion has a watery mild sweet strawberry talc.  Soft sandy mouthfeel with some slow chest beats.  Slight dry feeling in the mouth.  Chill vibes. Watery sweet finish.

Seventh has a woody spice talc mild flavour with a watery mild sweetness in the finish. Sandy dry mouthfeel.

8th is a long mug steeping and is oily light very high notes light fluffy almost candy sweetness.  Light crisp high notes pop still.  Candy long fade outs.  

Overall a nice solid Yiwu very easy to drink and no fuss feel good puerh but doesn’t dazzle and dazzle like most Yang Qing Hao with more a moderate and less complex Qi sensations as we have been used to being rather spoiled by other Yang Qing Hao productions.  However, their is a steady feeling of blissful happiness that carries me throughout this day on the Qi…. 

Peace