2006 Chen Guang-He Tang Spring!Yiwu Chawang: Aged Etherial Yiwu Gushu!

 

This is a rather expensive cake apparently- it’s the spring version of the famous Autumn 2006 Chen Guang-He Tang Autumn Yiwu Chawang.  Paolo Of Puerh.uk has some if you are looking to sample it…



The dry leaves smell of a sweet fruity odour no smoke at all.

The wet rinsed leaves have a woody sweet almost mesquite almost barnyard pungent odour.

First infusion has a bright sweet taste with clear watery feeling.  Fuzzy/ mossy mouthfeel.  

Second infusion has a light clear woody sweet taste.  With a mossy slight dry gripping salivating mouthfeel.  Peaceful Qi feeling.  

Third infusion has an oily sweet woody taste with some mossy dry slight gripping mouthfeel.  Clear taste profile with some qi felt in the arms relaxing Qi feeling. Slight sweet watery tropical fruit returning taste.  

Fourth infusion has a watery woody almost creamy sweet pure taste with a slight cooling breath and creamy sweet slight fruity returning sweetness over a mossy slight dry with some lips and roof drying feeling.  Chest expansion and calm Qi feeling with feeling in arms and shoulders.

Fifth infusion has a watery woody sweet creamy chalky taste.  There is a mossy slight stick mouthfeel very clear pure tastes.  Slight creamy slight cool aftertaste.  Peaceful calming Qi.

Sixth infusion is a watery pure and clear watery woody in a mossy mouthfeel.  Some faint cooling breath with slight sweetness.  No bitterness or astringency.  Peaceful calm.

Seventh infusion is a bit grains with wood clear pure watery ethereal feeling puerh this is.  Mainly just woody tasting with dry gums, teeth and lips. Some chest beats and slight warming face.  Relaxing and calm and peaceful.

The eighth infusion I put this into an hours long mug infusion… it’s comes out pretty woody with a bland woody not that sweet at all.  There is a dry sandy mouth feeling cool breath and deeply relaxing qi.  There is some bready warming spice root cola cooling medicinal woody sweet complex taste in there but underneath a strong dry woodiness bitter base taste.  Had to push it pretty hard to get it out of these leaves.  There is some bitterness and mouth puckering dry mouth.  Stronger face warming qi with spacy relaxing tranquilizer feeling.  I finish up the cup and give it another long steep…. This one has more of a watery not that sweet woody taste.

One of the best examples of a clean pure ethereal Gushu puerh from the early GuShu era of puerh production.  It has good stamina and subtle complexity and depth when pushed.  I would have guessed this a few years older if sampled blind.

Vs 2006 Autumn Guang Chen-He Tang Yiwu Chawang-  The Spring production is much smoother and ethereal tasting and feeling.  The spring is much more delicate and it’s Qi really peaceful with more pronounced bodyfeeling.  When pushed a bit harder you also get more complex subtle tastes.  The Spring tastes like a few years older.  The Autumn can be a bit bitter.  The Autumn has stronger Qi, Smoke, more old school feeling but a balance between that an Gushu nuance.

Peace