Marco’s 2022 Blind Sample #6

 

Dry leaves are very compressed and smell of dry old dusty woody.

First infusion has a pond and water taste to it some faint fruity taste in the very far distance.

The second is left to cool and gives off a pond/marshland taste of Taiwanese Dry storage pretty watery with not much to it yet…

The third infusion has a mild spice wood with pond taste.  Very mild still some faint cooling breath and subtle sweet edge.  Slow heart opening Qi.

The fourth infusion has a watery mouthfeeling with a subtle spice and icing sugar taste.  Hard to grasp watery taste here with a warm and Heart opening Qi.  Faint mouth moss.  Faint cooling throat.  Strong mild calm.

Fifth infusion has a pond marshland intial taste with very faint mild woody spice in a watery mouthfeeling.  There is spice and faint sweet edges but just faint mild through and through. Mild chest Qi.

6^th is a smooth pond and mashland sugar sweet taste in a watery smooth broth sort of warming spice and woody finish.  Nice cooling and sugar finish.  Very clear profile.  Thin soft faint mossy mouthcoating.  Overall very gentle and subtle puerh.  This infusion has a longer spice woody sugar aftertaste in the mouth supported by a cool throat and mid-deep depth.

7^th has a woody complex spicy minty woody onset with a subtle cooling throat and watery coating with a fine moosy coating that is almost a touch dry now.  The aftertaste becomes quite long in these last infusions with a woody sugar cooling spice finish.  Nice mind pausing effects with some mild heart opening.  Has no signs of young puerh left in there- should be early 2000s aged puerh over 20 years Taiwanese stored reminiscent of Wistaria’s puerh storage.

8^th has a minty spicy oily woody sugar onset of complex flavours in a very unimposing broth no astringency or bitterness at all nor a strong mouthfeeling.  This is all about subtle complexity.  Oily watery mouthfeeling subtle cooling with woody sugar sweetness.  Oily and smooth with lots of subtle complexity.

9^th has a woody oily sweet sugar spice clear complex taste.  There is a mossy almost but not really dry mouthfeeling and cooling finish of woody spice sugar.  Pond-marshland storage taste underneath is faint.  Chest and Heart opening feeling and mind pausing Qi- contemplative and complex.  This puerh feels really good through and through.  Longer and longer aftertaste.

10^th brown sugar woody spice it seems to be more sweet, complex opening is joined by a cool throat with woody spice sugar finish.   The mouthfeeling is an oily watery mossy taste the throat opening is mid to deep.  The Qi is profoundly mind pausing with Chest opening feeling.  Feels really nice- ready to drink- sufficiently aged puerh.

11^th infusion has that same complex woody, sugar, spice taste- this puerh is terribly reliable and great stamina in the tight compression of these quality material.  Oily texture keeps things feeling full and satisfied where the deeper open throat with cooling keep the taste going long in the aftertaste. The Qi is mind pausing with Chest warming feeling.  Deep contemplation takes place now under the influence of the Chaqi.

12^th woody spice sugar complex but less oily here.  Some cooling throat and long subtle woody spice finish.  Long woody aftertaste in the cooling throat.  Peaceful sensations.  Open chest.  Calm contemplations.

13^th is left to cool and is a woody not as spicy but more sugar sweet in the aftertaste.  Less oily but still not dry really- a thin mossy coating with some mild cooling throat before the aftertaste.  Quite calm, slight warming.

14^th infusion has a spicy woody almost medicinal onset but not anything close to bitter or astringent. Woody sugar pop of taste.  Chest opening. 

15^th has a spicy woody not very sweet onset with a mossy tongue coating and mild cooling woody aftertaste.  This infusion is less sweet.  

16^th is left to cool but still this stable woody spice mossy mouthcoating.  The mild flat sugar sweetness and oily mouthfeeling are starting to wane a bit now so I put it into mug steepings..

The mug steepings are a bit bitter woody puckering with edges of sugar and a long deep cooling in the throat.  This is a really nice puerh!  Strong Qi sensation washes over me.

I had a really nice experience with this clear Taiwanese stored puerh that had a very nice stamina, mind stopping very contemplate Qi with Chesty warmth and opening feeling.  Strong in its calm.  No astringency or bitter what so ever but very full and satisfying oily mossy and deeper throat opening with woody, spicy, surgar clear and steady profile.  I had a really good time with this one and it feels really good.  This could be a pretty expensive puerh considering the profile!

(Pictured top #4, mid #5, bottom #6)

Guess: early 2000s Taiwanese stored Gushu Growing area unknown

Peace