Rinsed leaves have a rich mild bitter smelling coco wood odour.
First infusion has a brassy metallic taste that evolves into a sweet almost fruity bitter sweet vibrant creamy caramel and almond nutty slight salty taste. The mouthfeel is chalky silty and smooth. Complex taste and flavour evolution. Face breaks into a sweat. Lots of strong warming heat!
Second left to cool is a vibrant brassy bitter sweet onset with two distinct phases but lots of evolution and complexity. The return is a bit nutty caramel and coco creamy tingling mouthfeel with some mild good pucker. Strong intense warming energy and upward surge!
Third infusion has a brassy vibrant bitter sweet taste with caramel and a pop return of creamy sweet some salty taste and coco. Nice clear taste complexity. Mouthfeel is smooth chalky slight good puckering tugging. Warming and upward surging Qi.
Fourth has a bitter coco dirt onset with mild dry bitter tongue feel and brassy creamy sweet. Strong heart pumping energy surges with uplifting energetics.
Fifth has a creamy coco milky brassy metalic sweet taste tongue tingling mouthfeeling with bitter sweet coco and dirt taste. Salivating effect. Some tongue tugging bitterness. Out of body feeling with strong heart beats and warming energy. Qi is almost overwhelming strong and I need to step away for a while…,
Sixth infusion is left to cool and is a brassy bitter sweet dirt creamy coco bitter pop. Silty mouthfeel with a slight tongue tugging finish. Salivating effect with very nice mouthfeel and warming energy. Strong chest beats and out of body and mind feeling. Strong wave of energy.
Seventh infusion has a bitter sweet onset with a woody dirt and coco taste. Mouthfeel creates saliva and has a bit of tugging tongue afterwards. Big chest beats and energy surging in body and mind.
8th is quite sweet fruity almost pear with a coco finish and a dirt coco taste. Returning sweetness is strong slight fruity and creamy fruity finish. Slight tingling mouthfeel with chalky and slight oily feeling with faint tug and saliva.
9th has a woody bitters onset with a slight dry tongue tugging. Cooled downed some fruity sweet sort of pear fruits come out with a dry woody base. Strong uplifting Qi… I’m going to be up late tonight!
The next day I return to the ninth infusion which was left in the cup and it comes off bitter oily woody dirt coco bitter. There is a slight cool throat then returning bitter sweet more milk chocolate in the finish but quite bitter. There is a silty mouthfeel left behind with even some faint sweet fruity trying to break through. Qi continues to roll me with big chest beats and out of body heart pumps.
10th has a watery fruity taste with a cooling undertone and soft silty mouthfeel with very mild background bitterness. Stil strong Qi sensations.
11th is left to cool and has a watery dirt woody slight bitter not that fruity taste with faint coco. Mouthfeel is more thin sand. Qi still shakes me a bit.
12th is put into a long mug infusion and an hour later comes out as a very sweet tingling vibrant sweetness with a dry woody finish and ashy dry woody aftertaste. Big chest beats and spacy waves of energy with limbs heavy and face and jaw numb!
The overnight infusion of spent leaves gives off a bittersweet taste onset with woody slight creamy chocolate there is a subtle metallic medicinal camphor cooling taste in the finish. Mouthfeel is mildly dry and mildly tight especially on the tongue. There is a strong chesty Qi with relaxing and exciting mild impacts on the nervous system. Lots left so I put the leaves onto another overnight infusion…
14th overnight infusion of spent leaves has a nut shell saltiness and ashy woody taste. Mainly salty savoury not real sweet or bitter.
A very very high quality Gushu blend!
Peace
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