The Long Forgotten… 2010 Yang Qing Hao Longtuan Fengmei!

I decided to drink this one without getting any information or reading any reviews before sampling it.  I had only vaguely remember this post-2007 Yang Qing Hao offering.  This puerh came in a sample package of cheaper Yang Qing Hao productions from Liquid Proust Teas  …

Very compressed very small tippy dry leaves smell of very sweet but very vegetal smelling melon odour and even a mintiness which smells really nice.  Not typical Yang storage smells.

First infusion has a watery almost fruity nuance to it with a bit of woody bark and coco finish on the breath.

The second infusion has a sticky coating on the lips and the tongue.  It has a watery creamy sweet woody taste with a subtle cooling in the aftertaste.  The taste is watery and woody and creamy sweet with the most distinct feature being a low long pungency.

The third infusion has a woody creamy sugary light sweetness to it.  There is a soft mild creamy sweetness with a soft faint long pungency.  The taste kind of just trails off into the cooling breath.  There is a mellow and quieting Qi to this puerh.  It feels really mild and harmonious in the body.

The fourth has a floral honey taste upfront very light creamy sweet floral honey with edges of melon, coco.  Over a stronger full sticky slight pulling tongue feeling and a nice pungency in the throat.  This is a nicely layered complex subtle puerh with a nice coco backbone with floral, melon, creamy sweet, sugar-honey nuances.  Reminds me of a nice Man Zhuan or Yiwu type.  The long cooling in the deeper throat indicates that this is nice material.  This infusions feels really complete, subtle and deeply relaxing.  The body feels light.

The fifth infusion has a strong honey and significant medicinal taste with a sweet almost licorice backbone.  The sweetness is highlighted in a Carmel, sugary and rich honey thick sweet taste.  The Qi is nice and sedating with a bit of a cheerful edge.  This feels and tastes like a nice forest/gushu type of puerh.

The sixth has a creamy thick caramel honey layered sweetness to it.  The mouthfeeling is a moderately thick chalky full feeling with a faint but deep throat opening sensation.  There is a long faint soft coolness on the breath that seems to stretch these layered honey tastes, somewhat floral tastes, creamy sweet tastes into the throat.  I like what this puerh is doing as far as taste, subtlety, mouth/throatfeeling, and aftertaste.  It really offers a nice full subtle light package.  The Qi is a touch lively and a bit sedating.  It is a strong deep feeling Qi.  It tastes kind of Boehetang, a bit ManZhuan, some Yiwu? Lots going on in a subtle way.  Very tasty to me.

The seventh infusion has a medicinal honey but predominately creamy sweetness that emerges strongly and is carried into the aftertaste.  There is some vegetal taste in here as well as some coco.  There is lots of interesting and subtle depth to the taste here.  With a very smooth body feeling and spacy and happy Qi sensation.  Deep subtle throat pungency and moderate coating on the tongue.  This is nice puerh.  The long sweet honey, creamy sweet, subtle coco and faint medicinal minutes later is quite enjoyable.  It has a very smooth profile through and through.

The eighth infusion has a caramel kind of coco smoothness to it.  It is nicely honey sweet and on a full tongue feelng that is chalky with a deep open throat where a faint coolness can be found and a long aftertaste resides from.  Nice lively and relaxing Qi.

The ninth infusion has a coco forest and vegetal taste with a long cooling creamy sweet with coco finish in the mouth.  The chalky mouthfeeling and mild cool deeper throat is nice.  Nice relaxing even sedating qi.  The Qi is really smooth in the body and feels really nice happy in the mind.

10^th infusion has a more bitter building up with some vegetal bitter coco taste with a creamy sweetness to it.  The tongue is a bit sharper with the increase in bitterness.  The taste feels smooth in the body despite its building bitterness.

11^th has a bitter coco almost fruity onset upfront.  This infusion strangely reminds me of sweet LaomanE with the bitterness dropped.  It has a long creamy sweet cooling throat and aftertaste with a bit more tropical fruitiness now.

12^th has a rich creamy caramel bitter coco which is mainly smooth caramel sweetness that has a long aftertaste in the mouth.

13^th has a watery fruity juicy sweetness with a coco mild bitter base.  The aftertaste is still sweet and creamy long with mainly coco base taste underneath.  The mouthfeeling is full but thinner now. 

14^th has a creamy sweet with mild bitter coco taste. It’s a rich and sweet taste with coco base is nice.  Nice smooth Qi in the body and spacy mind now.

The 15^th is cooled off and gives off a woody almost fruity creamy sweetness.  This infusion kind of reminds me of Youle region.  This is still at flash steeping and giving off nice tasting infusions here.

The 16^th is also cooled off and gives a full feeling in the mouth and nice full chalky with a cool pungent throat with edges of creamy sweetness.  There is still a nice long creamy sweet aftertaste with nuances of wood and chalky talc fruitiness.

The 17^th infusion I mug steep out and it comes off very nice.

I like this one best out of the cheaper YQH sampled from Liquid Proust.  So I go look at the price and info about this one… this 2010 Yang Qing Hao Longtuan Fengmei goes for$320.00 for 500g cake (or $0.64/g)… turns out that this one is not super cheap.  The site simply states that it’s a 6 famous tea mountain blend.  Interesting, that I could pick out some of the profiles of those mountains above.  Also, interesting that there doesn’t seem to be any reviews of this one out there…

Because it’s actually pretty good…

Peace