I sampled this 2019 Puerist Ban Po Lao Zhai Tree #10 back-to-back with the 2016 Puerist Ban Po Lao Zhai Tree #6. These are both from the same garden but different years and different single trees!
Looser than the 2016 dry leaves have a prune plum forest odour.
Rinsed leaves are very sweet plum sugar plum odours.
First infusion has a vibrant pear fresh melon with a tingling tongue mouthfeel and warm cinnamon spice mix taste. There is a very spicy warm spices taste and tingling mouthfeel with a sweet raisin bread sweet taste with eddies of dried date and overly ripe grapes. Warming complexity.
Second infusion is left to cool but has a bitter bready sweetness with a chalky sticky mouthfeel and a long sugar finish with a honeydew melon pop of salivating sweetness. Lots of mouthwatering long almost candy melon tastes. Chest tight feeling and neck lightness. Neck releasing feeling.
Third infusion has a spicy warming spice with sweet taste. There is an emerging bitterness with some mouth and younger drying but balanced by lots of salivating. Long candy melon sweetness in the finish. Neck release and chest tight with mild spacy feel and mild energy upwards some face heavy sensations.
Fourth infusion has a milky almost metallic spicy onset there is a sweet underbelly that turns more into sweetness in the finish but also there is a mild bitterness and slight tight sandy dry feeling balanced by a mild lubricating feeling. Sticky mouth finish. Warm and slightly tingling face with loose neck and tight chest. Mild spacy feeling.
5th has a warm spice and woody taste with some mild bitter astringency. There is some pucker mouthfeel with mild- moderate drying and a sweet melon is ground out by bitter coco nuances in the aftertaste. There is some candy melon they tried to push through the bitter drying astringency with a sugar finish under bitter coco. Warming face with numb lips and face open neck and tight chest. Slightly spacy feeling but also with energetic uplift.
6th infusion has a watery melon sweet bitter taste. There is a candy melon finish and sugar layer as well. Bigger heart beasts now with sticky flat tongue feeling not drying very mild pucker. Energy warmth and surge with face flushing and neck feelings with tight chest. Energy uplift.
7th is left to cool and has splashes of very sweet candy melon with a bitter flat mid taste coco finish that ends with sugar. Slight spacy but also energized with feelings in face, neck, chest.
8th was letting the cup overnight and has a bitter malt sweet taste with oily silty mouthfeeling. Lively uplifting Qi.
9th the leaves were left and the following day had another infusion with was left to cool and comes out oily and very sweet candy melon with moderate bitterness. Juicy at first then slowly bitter with an oily feeling and overall sweet fresh fruity taste. Nice uplifting feeling with a tight chest knotted feeling and face flush.
10th has a woody bland sort of taste with a flat bitterness and sugar finish. There are some fresh fruity taste mid way. Some chest Qi and face with uplifting Qi.
11th has a watery juicy taste with a mid profile moderate bitterness there is some returning banana sweetness. Long sweet almost candy melon. Spacy uplift Qi with face and chest Qi.
12th has a bland sort of woody bitter onset with chalky creamy sweetness and oily texture. Not as sweet with some driness and mouth pucker. Chest my and uplifting.
13th has a bland woody bitter onset with gripping and pucker. Still a bit oily with salivating with a lesser chalky creamy sweetness.
Mug steeping of spent leaves…has a vibrant bitter fresh fruity almost orange-melon sweetness with lots of stimulating mouthfeel and cool pungency. Strong Qi in chest. Some mild astringent pucker and bitter flat tongue but mainly sweetness… still quite complex here with nice stamina.
Days later steeping is oily with a fresh melon-peachy candy taste. Long cool sweet pungent fresh taste.Very mouthwatering and oily and delicious!
Bottom is the 2016 and top is the 2019.
Peace
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