The dry leaves has a sweet dry bubble gum candy with a
slight dry woody odour and faint pond/fishiness.
The first infusion has a mild watery
pond/marshland/fishiness with ghostly faint quick to disappear white sugar and
a building and expanding saltiness. The
mouthfeel is flat chalky in the mouth.
Weird faint salty surgary tastes play out in the aftertaste.
The second infusion has a clear sugar sweet onset with fishy
pondy taste and subtle faint incense with dry wood. The taste is really clear but light. The candy like aftertaste takes a while to
expand in the throat it turns into something kind of fruity/vegetal. It comes and goes over a backdrop of pond
tastes, not really bitter dry wood and saltiness. The tastes are really clear and pure and
almost singular in their presentation.
The Qi is really gentle in the body and has a faint body relaxing
bodyfeeling. The Qi is gently reassuring
in the mind slowly bringing me out of my morning fatigue.
The third infusion has a sweet woody incense pond onset with
an expanding white granulated sugary taste that is really long and turns into
an almost fruity/floral taste and then in the aftertaste into more of a candy
sweetness. The sweetness isn’t dense or
complex but evolves in the seconds and minutes after swallowing. The initial mild bitterness and almost flat
slight gripping tongue feeling opens the throat deeply to create space. The result is an almost gripping mildly
bitter mouthfeeling but long clear simple but evolving sweetness. The Qi is really a slow slumbering and gentle
feeling like a slow clear sunrise. The
bodyfeeling is very mild.
The fourth infusion has a woody incense onset with faint
sugar which expands in the flat mild gripping tongue coating. There is some movement to fruity and candy
but it is faint. The throatfeeling is
deep but faint and empty feeling. Faint,
light qi sensation.
The 5th has an incense woody faint bitter which
pushes out a more clear sugar sweet taste which expands in the throat to
something fruity and then evolves into the aftertaste with a candy like
finish. The taste is really fine, clear,
uncomplicated. It is all about following
the thin but obvious sweetness, move in the mouth, change, and evolve in the
aftertaste. Even minutes later there is
candy. There is a salty base taste to
this puerh. Calming and soothing soft Qi
in the mind with a subtle relaxing bodyfeeling.
The 6th infusion has a woody salty incense taste
with a fine thin surgery sweetness that turns to a building and more distinct
longer candy floral taste in the breath.
The mouthfeeling is thin and slightly gripping chalk. Peaceful Qi.
The 7th has a more distinct longer chalky talc
bubble gum finish that presents long from start to finish. Its really very satisfying. There are very faint suggestions of fine dry
woods and incense but these are so faint as the long show of sweetness
dominates here over a chalky slightly gripping tongue coating and a deeper
simulating throat feeling.
The 8th has a woody almost faint coco bitterness
with almost a plum taste underneath which turns to floral candy in the
aftertaste. This infusion is a bit bitterer
and much less sweet with an aftertaste which is less long.
9th is pond/fish woody with not much sweetness
nor bitterness. 10th is a bit
bitter woody. 11th is bitter
salty pond/marshland wood… it’s a bitter profile here now.
I mug steep out the rest…
Not sure how this compares to older puerh productions as it
just doesn’t seem to have too much of that feel to me… it has the strong robust
Qi sensation for sure but in the dry storage and clear compartmentalized tastes
it really had to compare to older styles of puerh… but it’s pretty damn good
Mengsong!
Compare to 2004 NanQiao Bulang King it really tastes similar
especially in the later infusions. Very
similar location (Bulang & Mengsong), storage (Dry Taiwanese and similar
tasting storage taste), and age 2004/03.
Bulang King is more powerful for sure. The Qingteng is much sweeter and
clear flavours. The stronger sweet taste
adds a certain complexity that the 2004 Bulang King will never actualize because
of its near lack of sweet taste although in some ways the Bulang King is denser,
nuanced and layered in taste. Overall,
the Qingteng is the more complex choice but the King is still the King of Qi!
James’ (TeaDB) Tasting Notes (here and here)
Paul’s (white2tea) Tasting Notes
Marco’s (Late Steeps) Tasting Notes
Peace
No comments:
Post a Comment