I picked up a bunch of samples from Liquid Proust last year and this one is a famous one throughout puerh tea circles globally. Managed to somehow squeeze out a great session in a December day that was otherwise quite busy…
Dry leaves smell of very sweet and very cardboard like
slight wood.
The first infusion has a watery creamy sweet taste to it
with an icing sugar like finish. It
presents with a very clear dry stored taste.
There is some faint cooling mouth and a long expanding creamy icing surgery
sweetness.
The second infusion has a clear almost meat-like taste,
creamy sweet and clear profile. There is
a subtle touch of smoke. The mouthfeel
is a thin dry feeling. There is a long
and expansive icing surgar finish. There
is a feeling of release in the neck and shoulders from the Qi.
The third infusion has a slightly sour syrupy woody creamy
sweetness. There is this berry jelly
note in there that is really nice and a very faint incense. The woody sweetness extends into the long
thin aftertaste but expands into something more creamy and sweet. The mouthfeel is thin and full.
4th is left to cool and has a syrupy creamy consistency
initially it stays and reveals a bit of distant incense smoke before
intermingling with a pungent coolness. There
is a berry jelly plum jam sort of faint sort of note that comes mid profile
with the incense. The long creamy sweet
aftertaste turns into an icing sugar long sweetness in the mouth. Nice subtle shoulder release and soft
euphoria feeling.
5th has a smoke and fruit creamy sweet taste
upfront. The taste is quite pure nicely
concentrated and dry stored. Nice fruity
note that is hard to explain and arrives with and to counterbalance a very
faint incense smoke. A thin dry mouth
coating with a soft euphoric vibe. There
is some sensations releasing the tops of the shoulders and giving the body a
deep relaxation. Subtle but profound.
6th has a rich smoky not quite fruity but almost
more creamy sweet onset. There are two
notes that form an interesting polarity- faint smoke and long pure
sweetness. The mouthfeel is less thick
here and overall it seems to be thinning a bit… Nice shoulder release still. The wet leaf aroma is a sweet and spicy
aroma.
7th has a syrupy warming spicy taste to it. The texture is a bit oily still with a thin
mouthfeeling long cooling and creamy icing sugar sweetness. More spicy tastes
in this infusion. Nice mild spacy
euphoria with shoulder release.
8th has a smoky incense taste to it. There is some spicy tastes, some bland
tastes, some faint creamy sweet tastes.
The mouthfeel is a thin sticky sandiness to it that is a touch drying. Nice soft euphoria.
9th has a subtle incense taste with a lesser, fading,
hard to grasp sweetness now. There is
some spicier notes there. I push with
longer steeping times
10th is 30seconds past flash…and left to cool…
more viscus maybe a bit more fruity… some back ground incense. There is a bit more depth to the spicy
sweetness, fuller dry sandy mouthfeeling, Nice relaxing feeling now.
11th 60 seconds…gives off a smokier, somewhat
sweeter but overtaken by incense, more pronounced throat coolness but also more
creamy sweet ending but still not too strong.
12th I push into minutes long infusion times… a
plum and smoke presentation with a nice burst of woody, incense, and faint
plum. The mouthfeeling is sticky and a
bit dry in the mouth.
13th is a sour, incense, emerging creamy
sweetness… finishes a bit cooling, mild creamy, smoke…
The overnight infusion is pretty much just a woody watery
taste- not much left in these small tighly rolled leaves.
Overall, this tea is an example of a pure, clear flavored,
and nicely dry stored puerh processed in the traditional fashion. The exemplary points of this puerh is the
very clean and pure taste and Qi, the bodyfeeling of neck and shoulder
releasing with mild euphoria are some of the most sought out experiences, at
least for me, and the polarity of mild smoke and fruity flavour with the long
pure icing sugar sweet finish makes this one very nice indeed.
Peace
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