Friday, November 4, 2022

2017 Puerh.uk Mansa “Ancient Tree”

 

This was a complimentary sample and has not been listed on Puerh.uk website…

Dry leaves smell of creamy fruity fresh sweetness… mmmmm… really delicious smelling…

First infusion has a creamy woody fluffy dense presentation of creamy powdery sweetness over background wood.  The taste sort of fades from the initial sugary creamy woody powdery sweetness. The mouthfeeling is fluffy and chalky and the breath is slightly cooling with sugar finish in the mouth.  Relaxing feeling already.

The second infusion has a fruity bready woody sort of stewed peachy and woody sort of taste. Condensed woody fruity oily chalky creamy powdery punch!  Very tasty with a woody base and long cooling sugar sweet aftertaste.  Some Chest opening and happy energy burst.  Can feel it in the Chest and Lungs- Breath expanding feeling.

The third infusion has a woody oily chalky sweet stewed peach creamy sweetness more woodiness comes out here.  The mouthfeeling becomes more full and drying here.  With a woody sugar almost camphor developing cool sweet finish.  With a puckering mouthfeeling and mild throat pucker stimulation.  The strong dense taste with the full puckering mouthfeeling and strong chest, Lung, Shoulder opening feeling is an intense package. There is an energetic upbeat feeling.



The fourth infusion has a woody oily almost stewed peachy woody puckering taste.  There is a dry puckering in the mouth.  Lots of condensed sugar and stewed peachy sweetness some almost brown sugar edges that are strongly paired with woody tastes.  Strong Chesty feeling and woody cooling sugar finish.  Upbeat qi.

5th woody brown sugar dry wood mouth puckering dry coating cool and sweet finish with woody. Peachy long aftertaste.  Strong Chest Qi.

6th is left to cool and gives off a peachy creamy chalky sweet with edges of caramel taste.  Nice pop of sweet taste with an oily peachy fresh taste. Long peachy brown sugar caramel melts into the aftertaste… Yummy.  Mind is upbeat and Chest feels open.

7th is cooled down but infusion has a creamy fruity sweet taste.  Long peachy creamy caramel brown sugar sweetness not much woody just long dense complex delicious sweetness here.  You can feel the jaw and chest open and limbs loose and a nice feel good vibe here. 

8th has a woody creamy sweet woody almost coco taste.  Less oily full chalky slight cry but not puckering any more the last infusions feel fuller and oilier in the mouth.  Upbeat with shoulders and limbs light.

9th was accidentally a longer infusion a good 5 minutes!  It’s a woody bitter coco creamy brown sugar with a gripping mouthfeeling and deep woody coolness in the mouth.  A strong bitter woody taste is dominant in these stronger infusions.  Nice throat stimulating at the top of the throat.  Some sour bitter woody tastes also fruity. Strong intense flavor reminds me of the powerful first few infusions and that this has a lot of strength underneath its peachy fruity and long sweet infusions. 

10th is another long one… it is left for hours and cool it tastes creamy dense oily fruity sweetness with edges of sour and bitter woodiness.



Mug steeping is oily and a bit drying with a more woody drying overall taste with some throat coolness.  There is a strong mouthfeeling pucker with not much sweetness at the edges and lost in the puckering feeling.  There is a pop of fruity sweet that pops through in the initial taste.  There is also a powdery talc cherry bitterness as well.

Overall, this one has both an elegance to it with really delicious tastes especially in the first few infusions.  Of note is the really long delicious aftertaste.  But lots of intense power as well with very gripping mouthfeeling and throatfeeling and bitter and astringent sour tastes.  Its Qi is pretty strong with Chest limbs and jaw body feelings and a happy vibes feeling.  As a result this puerh is really a dichotomy of sorts.  Some aging would do this one well. Like the 2014 puerh.uk Mengsa this one has some Gushu-ish qualities but also some harsher qualities but the result works especially if the price is reasonable.

Peace




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