2003 Chenyuan Hao Youle: Uplifting Happy Aged Gushu Energy!

I got this 2003 Chenyuan Hao Youle ¼ cake ($155.00 for 90gor $1.72/g) from Teas We Like.  I’m in a bit of a Chenyuan Hao study right now and really enjoyed this one…

Strongly compressed dry leaves smell of faintly creamy woody more humid odours.

First infusion has a creamy metallic onset with a strong mouthwatering effect over an oily creamy texture.  There is this buttery creamy almost metallic type of sweetness that pops in the mouth initially then expands in the thick saliva.  It’s an almost floral buttery creamy metallic taste.  The oily and saliva producing is really nice with a long thick feeling in the mouth.  There is some mild spacy mind slowing even right away.

The second infusion has a vibrant pop of sweet tangy buttery creamy sweet taste that lingers around in thick oily and mouthwatering places.  There is a vibrancy to it with some sour fruity sweet tastes being featured here it kind of reminds me of a fruit punch blend with sour mango of old dehydrated fruit leathers.  Nice mind slowly with some face tingling.

The third infusion has a floral fruity juicy oily tangy pop of vibrant dried fruity punch/ mango sweetness that hold long in the saliva and mouthwatering oily mouthfeeling.  There is some element of brassy metallic but not really.  There is just the faintest pulling sensation in the mouth but no astringency.  The saliva and oily effect in the mouth is pretty interesting.  There is not really any cooling throat or retuning sweetness just sort of one long oil slick playing out of vibrant flavours.  Nice mind slowing features.  I sigh as relaxation takes hold…

The 4^th infusion has a vibrant sour fruity buttery sweet pop of taste that wallows in saliva and oily mouthfeeling as it stretches its legs.  This infusion shows some interesting florals that kind of taste like sour flowers if that makes any sense.  No bitter or astringency here. Everything has this nice flow to it like floating in the sea, nice happy relaxing feeling.

5^th has a sour thick dried fruity punch dehydrated fruit leather pop of taste that hold nicely in the thick oily texture there is a subtle bready-woody storage taste but overall this is a very clean tasting storage that is doing this Youle surprisingly well.  The initial taste is almost like a sour flowered sweetness.  Nice happy feeling Qi with some deep sighs relaxing effect and mind clarifying slowness.  Very nice package overall.

6^th infusion has a sour dried fruit punch dried fruit dehydrated vibrant pop of a taste then it wallows along in an oily.  Long lingering buttery floral fruity taste.  Very vibrant taste.  Nice happy feeling.

7^th has a creamier and more floral sweet pop of taste.  The taste, mouthfeeling and Qi really line up with this one the storage is really nice and seems to give the vibrancy inherent in the Youle lots of cushion.  Long sweet floral sour like tastes.  Very satisfying package with this Youle gushu.  The cool cup is even fruitier.  Nice happy stress relief with subtle diaphragm release and some sighing.

8^th has a pop of vibrant sour fruity kind of floral-sour like taste that is mainly a balance of sour and sweet with sweetnessess wining out.  Very nice icing sugar on the tongue feeling the last few infusions.

9^th has a woody varnish subtle icing sugar sweet only a bit creamy, floral, sour or fruity now but a long icing sugar that turns to creamy sweetness in the mouth in the cooled down cup.

10^th has a sour dry wood-bark icing sugar taste over a tighter mouthfeeling with less oiliness and a thin woody and icing sugar finish.  Nice happy feelings.

11^th has a woody almost medicinal floral sweet icing sugar taste.  There is surprisingly more cooling in the profile here and more medicinal taste which wasn’t really a thing in the first infusions.  The icing sugar taste lingers in the mouth minutes later.  Nice happy feeling some subtle face tingles but more of just a relaxed body and muscles feeling.

12^th has a strong peachy fruity fruit punch dried fruity taste.  This puerh is really delicious to me.  There is this bready base taste that is really satisfying to me.  Long icing sugar minutes later.  Nice chalky mouthfeeling now with a saliva gob in the throat minutes later.  Deeply happy and tension busting feeling.

13^th has a fruity sweet pop of saliva producing oily sweetness.  The infusions are getting fruitier and icing sugar as the go and the mouthfeeling is becoming chalkier.  The throat is really opening up deeply and holding some saliva deep in the throat.

14^th has a long woody taste with a bit of sweetness and floral and even a bit of very faint incense…

I mug steep out the rest… and it gives off a woody taste with background fruity sweetness.  Strong relaxing Qi and tension easing feelings.  Strong woody brackish dirt with a faint bitterness and strong underlying backbone of fruity sweetness and floral-ness.  There is some faint cooling but hardly.  Lots of strong flavours- woody, almost metallic, sour, fruity, icing sugars.  Lots of power in this top notch Youle.  Strong euphoria and deep body relaxing when pushed hard like this.  I break into a big sweat… wow… what a feeling… I think I’d cake this if the price was right… or maybe another Quarter cake.  So far it seems to be winning the speed test among all my ChenYuan Hao… I like its energy.

Peace