This sample was also acquired from Liquid Proust. He also used to sell the whole cake on his site as well…
Dry leaves are a sweet creamy talc rose woody odour.
First infusion has an icing sugar with a rose and woody
paper taste. There is a watery creamy
kind of fruity finish in the mouth.
Second has a tangy perfume floral cardboard box sweet taste
initially. It has that turnip taste and
a sort of dirt and mint taste too. The
coolness in the throat is much more with this than the 2007 or 2008. There is an almost peach edge to it. The mouthfeeling is more juicy and
lubricating too not the same as the 2007 and 2008 which was more fine sandy
slight gripping… it might get there in later infusions…
The third infusion has a peachy fruity rose perfume creamy
lubricating sweetness to it. The
coolness goes deep into the throat and expands in a peachy creamy perfume
way. There is some bitterness throughout
here now and a flat cardboard taste.
This infusion is a nice balance of sweet, cooling pungent, bitter and
bland with sweeter overall. The Qi is
quite strong in the Chest closer to the 2007 than the 2008 in its strong chesty
heart beats. The Qi is more invigorating
and energizing than the 2007 and 2008.
The 2007 has more of a deeper profound effect with pronounced bodyfeelings
which the others don’t.
The fourth infusion has a medicinal cardboard cherry cough
syrup taste that the 2008 definitely had- bitter, sweet, kind of sour and
dense. There is a juicy bitter sour
fruity thing with a dose of significant perfume. The liquid is much thicker and oily than the
2008 and 2007. There is a peachy, creamy
bitter cardboard taste that comes out in the aftertaste. Nice strong Chest sensations and intense
energy.
The fifth infusion has a strong medicinal bitter cherry
cough syrup and cardboard taste with edges of turnip. This infusion is strongly bitter and leaves
an oily but underneath fine sandy aftertaste.
Strong Chesty Qi and Heart beats with energy bursts.
The 6th is left to cool and gives off a creamy
bitter cardboard parsnip bitter sweet taste… mainly bitter with a lesser
perfume body. The aftertaste has a
perfume and almost sour fruity cardboard taste to it. This is bitterer than both the 2008 &
2007. With more dynamic movement between
initial taste and aftertaste.
The 7th has a lubricating Sweettart candy like
taste that is both sweet and sour and almost artificially tasting. This infusion is more sour and less bitter or
sweet. The taste is really delicious and
candy like here. The aftertaste is
pretty long but not at long as the 2008 or 2007 which would go even 10-20 min
later some infusions.
The 8th is left to cool and is a bland cardboard
bitter woody sour fruity perfume kind of initial taste that extends into the
aftertaste. There is a kind of sour
floral orange blossom perfume finish that lingers minutes later. Decent Heart pounding Qi.
9th infusion is very peachy pear onset with
almost no floral bitter cardboard tastes.
It has a bit of a sour orange peel taste to it with orange blossom. Nice citrus taste here that is a touch sour
and bitter but volatile fragrances and mainly sweet. The mouthfeeling is a faint fine powdery
feeling. The throat is deeply more
cooling than the 2008 and 2007 but the mouthfeeling is less strong or full.
10th infusion has a peachy pear taste with a
subtle cardboard flat woody taste. There
is lesser bitter notes in there and lesser sour and still a floral perfume but
not as strong. The mouthfeeling is a
fine sandy feeling that the other years have.
This one has a bitter orange peel and orange blossom finish. Qi has still some chest action going on with
some energetic focusing.
11th has a bitter woody dirt floral nuance to it
with an orange peel blossom bitter woody taste. The dry sandy mouthfeeling
feels like the 2008 and 2007 now. Nice
mild energy still uplifting and mildly Heart racing. Although this is the youngest of the tasting
it isn’t at all raw on the stomach like the others can be in a few of the
infusions.
12th has an oily peachy pear fruity onset with
not really any bitter or floral or spicy left.
There is an nice oily texture with some cooling deep throat and a bit of
sandy undercoating with a mild energy now.
13th has a strong Asian pear and lesser honey
taste, pear peelings, nice sweetness of melon now. Light fruitier notes are coming out now
without any bitterness. Nice mouthwating
sensations.
14th much of the same peachy, melon, pear tastes
that really taste like Yiwu puerh here.
The 2008 and 2007 didn’t have the last handful of infusions that were
very fresh and fruity with no bitterness.
Mug steepings of all three spent leaves…
2009 is bitter woody cardboard dirt like taste a faint underlying sweetness of candy melon that barely makes its way through the bitterness. Big Chest pounding in this long infusion! On the whole significantly better than the 2008.
2008 is a sweet plummy initial taste with some bitter cardboard underneath taste with a strong cherry cough drop cool pungency. I think this is that weird minty taste working out. Overall tastes quite delicious. Very oily and lubricating.
2007 is a deep sweet resin incense taste with this very
sweet initial pop of flavour. It’s weird
that this mug steeping reminds me lots of the 2001 Naked Yiwu? Strange… but
delicious. More of a deep complex
lurking bitterness underneath. There is
this deep penetrating perfume taste that just lingers for a long time on the
breath. 2007 is by far the best of the
samples mainly due to the strong Qi and bodyfeelings and very intense unique
tastes and long stamina. The Houde storage is significantly better to this year than the Taiwanese storage of the Liquid Proust samples.
These long steepings do much to reveal at its core the
differences between these Dianggus!
Peace
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