2021Puerist Youle “Forest Tea”- Spaced Out Very Long Sweetnesseseses

This is picked from the same area as the 2020 Purist Youle “Forest Tea”.  Last year’s harvest was not from the tall pole trees which were pressed separate they were of the “ordinary” trees.  This 2021 production is from a blend of Gaogan and standard trees collected from the forest.  I got this as a free sample but the cake of 2021 Puerist Youle goes for $115.00 for 200g cake or $0.58/g.

First infusion has a light fruity woody onset with a flat expanding floral sweetness that has a tingling chalky mouthfeeling.  There is a sugary long sweet finish that evolves into a long fruity and floral taste even 10 minutes later.  The deep throat opens a bit but the aftertaste really lingers in the chalky mouth.  Nice spacy strong Qi sensation.

Second infusion has a buttery floral sweet almost melon onset with a flat tasty onset that stretches out into the aftertaste where there is a very long evolving fruity sweet aftertaste with oily saliva producing and a chalky almost mildly dry mouthfeeling that is present on the tongue.  Nice spacy floating Qi.  Very long fruity sweet lingering aftertaste.  Some arm/limb tingling.

Third infusion has a woody floral fruity onset that expands exponentially in the mouth and breath.  Long almost rubbery fruity sweet finish with a layer of expanding cooling taste.  There is a woody base taste here throughout.  A long stretch of expanding sweetness.  There is a nice oily gob of saliva produced and a flat almost dry full chalky mouthfeeling.  Deep penetrating relaxing feeling with spacy floating body feeling.  

Fourth infusion has a long floral almost soapy fruity sweetness which really goes long in the aftertaste and breath taste.  Long sweet fruity taste with a subtle rubbery-woody finish.  The cooled down cup is vibrantly sweet fruity with a smooth creamy mango-like sweet taste that picks up a bit of cooling throat.  Long sweet fruity breath tastes.

Fifth infusion has a fruity oily creamy woody onset, very Youle initial taste.  It expands to be more fruity and sweet with a long sweet fruity taste.  The oily sweet buttery fruity floral taste is both long and evolving becoming slightly cooling.  The mouthfeeling is gripping and chalky a pulls at the upper throat a bit and causes some nice salivating.  Nice relaxing spacy feeling with limbs and shoulders heavy.

6^th is left to cool and has a creamy buttery sweet buttery taste there is a bit of mild woody astringency now and a buttery rubbery long sweet fruity taste which evolves and moves.  There is more pucker to the mouthfeeling but mild and more chalky than pucker.  Nice relaxing expanding feelings with mild floating body and stronger heavy shoulders.

7^th is left to cool and has a creamy woody smooth sweet taste that evolves into a sweet fruity taste.  Nice long evolution of taste that has a slight woody rubbery base and long breathy fruitiness even minutes later.  Nice relaxing and slightly spacy with heavy shoulders.

8^th is left to cool and gives off a woody creamy sweet onset with a woody slightly dry chalky slight puckering mouthfeeling.  There is the long evolving sweetness here where a coolness sort of collides.  Nice spacy relaxing with heavy shoulders and arms.

9^th has a woody oily sort of buttery sweetness with not really much fruity sweetness up front.  The sweetness evolves more in the aftertaste.  Nice heavy shoulders bodyfeeling and Spacy Qi.

10^th is long steeped it gives off a bitter lemon and creamy sweet fruity taste with an evolving coolness.  

I put it into a longer mug steeping and it gives off a woody bitter slightly sour but not that sweet taste with a chalky dry pucker mouthfeeling but still rather soft on the body.

Vs 2020 Puerist Youle “Forest Tea”-  These are actually quite different as I drank these back to back!  It actually surprised me to know they are from the same forest area.  The 2020 production has a much more defined “Forest Tree”  “Yesheng Puerh” profile through and through.  I commented last year that it “is very much wild tea in taste, Qi, and feeling with not so much typical Youle feeling or taste at all”  but this 2021 Puerist Youle has much more leaning toward a Youle profile to me. In fact, I thought it was a standard variety Gushu Youle…  It lacks the rubbery wild tea taste.  It has more of a wild tea big spacy Qi but it is so good! Also it has this insanely long sweet flavor that turns into a breath taste typical of yesheng but it also feels standard Youle… I don’t think the addion of the pole tress could change it this much but maybe the variability of the forest?  I was told the more wild trees are harvested each year the less Yesheng they become in character… I wonder…. Either way this was a good one!

Peace