Tea Encounter 2025 Line Up

 

As he has been doing since the beginning of time… Tiago of Tea Encounter has sent me his best freshest 2025 puerh teas… and I am happy to try such fresh things every year!

This year I was extra excited about his 2025 lineup and the free samples he sent… Firstly, he surprised me and sent some 2025 samples of my favourite Zheng Si Long production areas. I could not wait to sample these.

But honestly, I had the best time sampling fresh samples in years when he sent me three different GuaFengZhai areas to sample and compare…. 2025 Tea Encounter Guafengzhai Leihushan , 2025 Tea Encounter Guafengzhai Chaping and 2025 Tea Encounter Guafengzhai Langshuihe.  Comparing these was a rare treat for me and I can highly recommend it to get to know the area with these different characteristics!

Then to top it off there was the YiShanMo which I believe came from the same garden as the 2023 and it is very classic Yi Shan Mo and then the ManZhuan area puerh which include WaLong area! 

Anyways this was my favorite batch of fresh puerh he has sent so far…. Posts will follow..

Peace

2019 Yang Qing Hao Tai Ji

2019 Yang Qing Hao Tai Ji goes for $125.00 for 400g cake or $0.31/g… this was the last of my large sampling of Yang Qing Hao puerh….

Dry leaves are a deep strong plum and prune odour.

Rinsed leaves have a fruity plum and prune odour.

First infusion is a very oily fruity plum taste.  Tastes of Menghai plumpness!  Long lingering clear fruity plum….

Second infusion has a bitter sour plum onset with a juicy viscus texture.  Thick mouthfeel with lots of saliva producing.  Bitter and sour here… pot was slightly clogged….

Third infusion has a woody sour bitter very plum/ prune taste.  Texture oily viscus with mouthwatering.  Some mild pucker astringency cool breath. Qi is mildly uplifting.

Fourth has a fruity plum and sorta Menghai dirt taste.  Simple plumb ling fruity bitter sweet taste very faint astringency with mouthwatering uplifting qi. Some strawberries and mild bitterness in the aftertaste minutes later. Cooled down it is much fruitier with peach tastes with an almost soapy peachy plum finish.  Chest beats with uplifting energy. Some face numbness.

Fifth infusion has a woody bitter, fruity plum and sort of almost peach tastes. Slight sandy grainy sticky texture. Chest beats and uplifting energy.  Face mild tingling.

Sixth is a bitter dirt almost coco syrup peach plum.  Bitter is at least as strong as sweet fruits.  Big chest beats and energy boost up. Slight anxiety energy overflow.  Cooled down is more coco bitterness initially and smoother peachy fruitiness in the return.  Big chesty beats and energy overflow jitters!  Long bitter chocolatey breath.

Seventh has a fruity almost spoilt peachy plum dirt oily texture with bitter coco.  Big jittery chest beats. Chalky stick grainy mouthfeel. 

8th is a bitter slight gripping with almost medicinal woody cooling throat tugging bitter coco.  Puckering here. Big chesty smithing energy anxieties.  Strong surge! The cooled down infusion left for hours in the cup is very sweet very orange fresh fruity juice and long candy aftertaste with an orange chocolate like one of those Terry’s Chocolate Oranges.

9th is a flash steep the next day… left to cool it’s a very sweet fruity orange and passion fruit taste with long candy finish and chalky mouthfeel.  Mild uplifting energy.

10th is left to cool and has a juicy orange and passion fruits taste that turns into a long candy finish. 

11th is a sweet creamy orange and candy silty finish.  Mild uplifting.

12th is a long thermos steeping and it comes out bitter woody dirt with a floral almost orange taste.  Flat bitter tongue feeling.  Big chest feeling and energy surge. Very bitter when warm…. Very bitter…

This is an outlier Yang Qing Hao production that is a bitter classic Menghai tasting and has that is very strong chesty jittery Qi…. Turns out the site says it’s from Hua Zhu Liang Zi… I like that producing area…

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2017 Yang Qing Hao Sen Lin Cha Wang

This 2017 Yang Qing Hao Sen Lin Cha Wang goes for $950.00 for 500g cake or $1.90/g.  It’s listed as one of their limited productions…

Dry leaves smell of sweet fresh peachy orange.

Rinsed leaves are a very dense sweet fresh fruity sugary candy sweet odours.

First infusion has an ashy woody orange blossoms taste- surprising that it tastes like Lincang to me!  Oily orange sweet nectar taste.  Lingering sweet orange blossom woody. Swelling chest feeling with some face qi.

Second infusion has a soapy orange blossom and orange fruity taste with faint mild astringency and sticky mouthfeel deeper thirst opening feeling and swelling chest.  Big energy boost comes from the chest and mind charged up! Face Qi.  Could be Bing Dao?

Third infusion is left to cool and has a juicy orange sweet orange blossom sweet taste with swelling chest and heart palpitations.  Mouthwatering effect very faint astringency with long orange sweet taste.  Energy uplift!

Fourth infusion is a very sweet almost woody but more orange sweetness.  Very very mild astringency with enough to induce mouthwatering but hardly noticeable.  Qi big chest beats.  Qi power up!  

5th is a sweet orange blossom woody is becoming more prominent faint astringency and mouthwating with face tingling qi big energy boost in chest and mind!

6th is a juicy orange sweet taste.  Big chest feeling moderate face qi and relaxed shoulders and limbs.  Energy charge up.  Puerh I’ve tried like this in the past are usually more astringent this one is not! This is an outlier in the Yang Qing Hao productions being very Lincang!

7th has a fruity sweet orange tastes with a faint woody back ground.  Soft mouthfeel cooling mild breath with a floral orange blossom and sweet orange taste. Big qi chest building with uplifting.

8th cooled down… is a light apricot/orange sweet taste with light slight sticky mouthfeel.  Mild chest feeling with mild energy increase.

9th is a sweet almost orange peach fruity taste.  Fresh taste. Slight ashy chalky feel.  Uplift.

10th is put into an overnight thermos and it is sweet creamy orange-peachy pop and chalky onset with a long sweet candy finish.  No bitterness nor astringency… candy sweetness!

Peace

2016 Yang Qing Hao Jen Kung Miao Yu

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2016 Yang Qing Hao Wujin Cang

 Got this sample from Liquid Proust in 2021ish… this 2016 Yang Qing Hao Wujin Cang goes for $220.00 for 400g cake or $0.55/g… on the cheaper end of Yang Qing Hao puerh…

Dry leaves have a sweet dry woody cardboard with subtle spice….

Rinsed leaves are very sweet candy… I don’t have much leaf here maybe 6-8 g vs 10-12g which I have been using…

First infusion has a maple syrup watery sweet taste.  Cooled down it is a very sweet pure clear sugar.

Second infusion is a sweet light airy sugar and fruits with a syrupy sweet taste throughout long light candy on the breath. Like canned peach syrup.

Third infusion has a sweet light watery airy pure sweet sugar slight peach taste.  There is a creamy almost chocolate pudding faint breath finish. Chest beats and face light and head floating feeling. Candy faint breath.

Fourth infusion is ashy fruity sweet with sandy silty mouthfeel and spacy out mind and face qi with Heart palpitations.  Light sweet faint chocolate breath. 

5th infusion is a ashy woody slight sweet sorta bitter taste with long very faint sweet chocolate breath. Chest beats and face Qi. Cooled down is a light peachy ashy very faint bitter. Chest beats.

6th is a watery sweet water.  Light coco ashy faint bitter. Silty mouthfeeling.   

7th same…so I put it into an overnight thermos….

Next day it is sweet coco smooth bittersweet taste flat tongue mouthfeel.  Mainly coco but more sweet and smooth not so bitter.

Longer days long steeping is a bit dark coco bittersweet…

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2013 Yang Qing Hao Tai He

This 2013 Yang Qing Hao Tai He goes for $800.00 for 500g or $1.60/g.

 Dry leaves have a honey like odour and dry cardboard.

First infusion is a bright tingling watery bitter with long creamy candy finish.  Chalky fluffy mouthfeel with tangerine peach nuances.  Long long candy finish. Chest bubbling.

Second is left to cool and comes out a creamy caramel with bitter onset and long creamy sweet caramel evolution into long candy… very very delicious.  Subtle faint smoke very long candy finish. Chest bubbling with peaceful feeling of harmony.

Third infusion is a bitter peachy fruity with caramel subtle smoke and long candy finish!  Cooled down it is a peachy caramel candy evolution of tastes with a very mild smoke and moderate bitterness.  Long candy sweet finish is really nice.  Big qi swells up like energy building in the chest. 

Fourth has a bitter peachy caramel with very long candy sweet finish almost like those fuzzy peachy candies.  Big qi swelling and face flushing with up lifting deep energy charge with high feeling.

Fifth infusion peachy sweet caramel mild bitter smoke. Very delicious long evolving sweet taste of peach, candy and caramel.  Mild bitter and faint smoke.  Chalky fluffy mild mouthfeel and strong space out Qi with build up deep charge.  Face warming qi.  

6th is moderate bitter caramel candy. Very sweet almost a strawberries creamy peaches underneath.  Big chest bubbling even in diaphragm.  

7th infusion is sweet peachy ashy coco slight pucker tight mouth and weeks roof.  Big qi building with face warming and sweating.  Relaxing uselessness feeling.

8th peachy ashy long sweet taste less bitterness. Less complex sweet taste now and more slight gripping sandy mouthfeel.  Faint coco flavours in moderate bitter taste.  Unless relaxing happening with low productivity at work now!

9th is a sweet bitter woody taste coco flavor is faint more sweet peachy bitter woody balance. Big qi building with lazy relaxing.  

10th is a bitter woody some faint coco dry woody sweet underneath but bitterness overtakes it now… chest flutters and face sweats…. Deep useless relaxing.

Still lots of power left in these but too bitter so I put them into an overnight thermos… the next morning it gives off vibrant bright sweetness with bitter woody coco chocolate finish.  Flat tongue mouthfeel.  Strong warming face sweats.

Put into another days long thermos steep it is still oily resin woody rich deep chocolate and bitter sweet coco layers with background smoke…. Deep and delicious.  Big Qi relaxing and mind deep contemplation.

I push it again into a days long thermos… it is a creamy dense caramel but mainly coco bittersweet.  Viscus thick chalky mouthfeel but not at all hard or gripping.  Bitterness but no astringency.

Overall the strong rich dense bittersweet taste is really good and the lazy relaxing low productivity Qi is really nice.  I like this one a lot.

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2012 Yang Qing Hao Yeh Gu… Oops

 Ok I actually forgot to taste the 2012 Yang Qing Hao Yeh Gu ($480.00 gor 500g cake or $0.96/g in my sequential sampling this past winter/ Spring.  

I purchased a cake of this in January 2021 it was $450 at that time.  My notes are here.   I understood it to be a very high quality… probably the best Wild Tea / Yesheng I had tired.  The new site descriptions confirms that it is just that.  It also sort of confirms the exotic musings of Shah8 that it was likely picked deep in a state forest… maybe even poached he goes as far at painting the lore of this tea…. It doesn’t say that but I just love how Shah8 paints that picture in my mind!

I just wanted to add a few notes to compare it to the rest of the 2012 line up of Yang Qing Hao…. It actually fits in really nicely and I can see that Yang was all about creating very powerful complex forest blends that tilt toward power and extraordinary strong Qi experiences in 2012!

Peace

2012 Yang Qing Hao Tian Shan Yi Jen

 

This 2012 Yang Qing Hao Tian Shan Yi Gen goes for $830.00 for 500g cake or $1.66/g.

Very tight pressed Dry leaves smell of dry marsh subtle sweetness and florals.

Rinsed leaves are very creamy sweet and purfume florals.

First infusion has a creamy sweet pudding custard taste. Oily creamy mouthfeel.  Long creamy sweet finish. 

Second creamy brassy almost sour sweet taste with custard like textures and sweet tastes.  Creamy tongue tingling.  Chest heavy feeling and releasing mind feeling.

Third infusion is left to cool and is a sweet cooling liquid custard and creamy tasting. Brassy sweetness.. heavy chest feeling light airy mind.

Fourth has a creamy honey oily viscus sweet taste with a nutty creamy sweet finish.  Sone candy returns and disappears faint bitterness is building lingering coco with that bitterness.  Spacy air mind and heavy shoulders, limbs, face and chest.  The contrast between the heavy bodyfeeling and the light airy feeling in the mind is unique and interesting to me.

Fifth infusion is sweet and evolving taste creamy custard honey linger coco bitterness at the end key feeling. Long creamy custard honey sweet taste with mild bitter coco finish. Almost floating out of body and airy and light feeling Qi.  Freeing and happy.

6th infusion has a creamy custard spicy bready long chocolate coco creamy sweetness.  Very smooth a long with some mild bitterness building at the end into coco. Airy out of body feel.

7th is a sweet wet texture with a honey custard coco mild bitterness. Evolves into the bitter coco it’s not up front. Delicious taste progression.  Big chest beats and freeing mind feeling.

8th has coco creamy almost purfume custard taste with mild oily bitter coco more at the profiles end.  Oily texture with mild silty finish .  Mouthwatering bitt sweet coco. Big chest feeling. Happy airy mind is happy and strongly mentally rejuvenating!

9th is put into a long thermos steeping and it is coco bitter sweet with some chest y qi and very happy high feeling.

10th is an overnight thermos and it is an oily viscus bitter sweet coco with thick textured oily feeling and big chest Qi with strong high happy feeling.

11th the leaves have quite a bit of stamina so I push it into another overnight thermos and it comes out delicious oily viscus coco milk chocolate with bittersweet coco bitterness as well.  Mouthwatering delicious!   Mouthfeel is mildly tight chalky but mainly oily tick textured.  Big qi washes over me still… 

12th Days long steeping is very very sweet vibrant melon tropical deep fruity vibrancy,  delicious pops of candy like strawburst candies.  Faint mouthwatering creamy chili ate layers.

I push this one into a few days long thermos and it still has enjoyable amounts of creamy chocolate and cherry. Lots of dark cocoa taste in this puerh even after many long pushes… the leaves have great stamina….. thicker oily chalky full textures even very faint smoke…I like this one quite a bit.

These two 2012 from Yang Qing Hao have the feeling of high quality Yibang to me… possibly very nice powerful Yiwu as well! The 666 and Yeh Gu are similarly extra powerful!

Peace

Pow! 2012 Yang Qing Hao Tei Gung 666

This 2012 Yang Qing Hao Tei Gung 666 goes for $830.00 for 500g cake or $1.66/g.

Very compressed Dry leaves smell of marsh like hay not sweet.

Rinsed leaf is very sweet pure candy and sort of forest rubbery leaves!

First infusion has a watery sort of creamy minty. Long creamy candy on the breath.  Fluffy full mouthfeel. Chesty flutters and happy spacy mind.

Second infusion has a nice candy taste watery with a full chalky fluffy mouthfeeling.  Long candy finish.  Slight menthol cool breath.  Long candy profile. Sandy chalky fluffy slightly stimulating mouthfeel.  Chest flutters and deep energy uplift with numb face qi!

Third infusion has a woody/hay candy taste. Stronger mouthfeel is slowly building with chest fluttering which is pretty strong sensation but strangely calming.  Left to cool it is sweet honey and candy silty sandy full mouthfeel. Strong chest feeling.

Fourth is left to cool and is a bit sour bitter sweet sort of fruity and woody. Almost mango tasting but not overly sweet.

5th infusion has a sweet sour woody taste sort of mango.  Cooled down is sweet sour mango woody.  No long candy anymore… chest flutters and relaxing mind. Is left to cool… 

6th infusion has a coco woody taste. Sweet chocolate taste creamy chocolate pudding taste now.  Relaxing Qi with face tingling and chest flutters.

7th is woody coco bitterness with a sandy full mouthfeel some chest fluttering and heavy relaxing feeling.  

8th is a woody bitter coco with strong almost throat gripping bitterness.  Bitter woody coco some medical cooling breath. Dry mouth and roof of mouth. 

9th is a bitter woody not much coco a bit cooling medicinal but throat tugging and stomach beating bitterness now…..

These leaves still have lots to offer but too bitter and hard on the empty stomach to continue….

Long mug steeping is bitter woody menthol with chest and face qi and heavy relaxing along with deep uplift and spaced out feelings.

Days long steeping of spent leaf is oily very sweet plum bready oily some chocolate creamy tastes almost nutty with chocolate covered cherries box of chocolate taste is very delicious oily chalky feeling chest heavy feeling. Spacy mind ride.

One more days long steeping continues to push out the good stuff… it is viscus oily slight smoke but a long juicy melon… bitter dark chocolate cherries finish…. Yummy!

This one is a complex powerhouse in taste and Qi…. Pow!

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2011 Yang Qing Hao Jin Ya

This 2011 Yang Qing Hao Jin Ya goes for $420.00 for 500g or $0.84/g.

Tight compressed Dry leaves have a strong piercing sweet odour with deep grapes and hay and forest odours!

First infusion is a flash infusion as per always and is still mainly watery due to the very tight compression but has light watery sweet honey taste.  

Second infusion has a watery sweet honey.  Faint smoke pure sweet.

Third infusion is left to cool and has a mild sweet almost forest sweet taste with subtle smoke.  

Fourth infusion is left to cool and is a sweet mild smoke water with a long smooth mild honey sweet taste.  Honey sweetness.  Mild qi with clear watery sweet honey smoke taste.

5th infusion has a watery sweet honey taste watery clear pure with a heavy mind slowing qi.  Like mind and body is stuck in honey.  Opening chest feeling. Strong qi is quietly building up.

6th has a smoke and honey taste with a heavy body and mind feeling qi.  Silty mouthfeel with smooth smoke and honey and strong heavy feeling.

7th the pot clogged a bit… it has a rich woody resin smooth taste with a bit of bitterness and brown sugar and a long delicious honey taste throughout in a silty wet mouthfeel with a taste that gets stuck in the gums. Big chest opening feeling with some out of body and face tingling qi- heavy glue feeling in the body.

8th infusion has a honey sweet profile smooth long honey with faint smoke mouthwatering feeling.  Big qi in face, heavy body big chest expansiveness! Surging deep uplift.

9th is left to cool and is sweet oily silty honey.  Very delicious tasting with a smooth mouthfeel and long honey sweet taste.

10th has a long sweet honey taste very smooth but still very present mouthfeel.  Silty oily texture and long honey with face Qi opening chest light limbs and heavy shoulders and head. It’s so good!

11th has a wiody slight smoke initial taste with long honey sweetness underneath.  Silty almost dry sandy mouthfeel big qi sensations.  In face, shoulders, limbs and chest!

12th is left to cool and gives off a nice long honey taste.  Subtle smoke and wood.  Silty sandy oily texture.  Big Qi feeling still!

13th is really sweet honey woody hard to find smoke.  Long sweet taste.  

14th has a sweet honey taste nice long sweet honey… yummy the smoke is harder to spot now but it’s there with woody,  sweetness. Long on the breath steady honey.

15th woody sweet honey so good! Very high grade old tree Bulang me thinks!

Overnight mug steeping is very vibrantly sweet oily resin smoke.  Full taste, feel and Big Qi! So delicious!

This is one of my favourite of all Yang Qing Haos productions but probably too expensive for me to purchase… turns out it’s not as expensive as I thought and this one is definitely on my radar to purchase.

Peace 

2011 Yang Qing Hao Kuyun

 

I got this sample from Liquid Proust 3-4 years ago… I mentioned in previous posts that it was pretty good for the lower price range.  This 2012 Yang Qing Hao Kuyun goes for $235.00 for 500g or $0.47/g currently.

The dry leaves smell of sweet cardboard and leaves…

Rinsed leaves have cc a honey subtle smoke odour.

First infusion.. has a light clear sweet very watery sweetness as the leaves were pretty compressed. Almost floral candy faint breath.

Second infusion has a clear watery tiny bit sweet taste.  Very clear watery with faint distant smoke chalky taste.  Somewhat spacy high feeling.  Faint candy floral sweet breath. Light mild happy feeling.

Third infusion has a watery clear mild sweet taste all the way through. Wet mouth subtle smoke base with faint distant sweet aftertaste of sugar. Somewhat spacy high faint chest feeling and a happy high mild feeling. Candy sweet dips and fades on the breath.

Fourth infusion has a mild honey sweet taste with subtle smoke light chest feeling and happy mild uplifting.  Lingering mild honey smoke candy.  Slow chest beats.

5th has a mild honey sweet candy taste long sweet profile. Subtle heart beats and happy feeling wet soft mouthfeel. Long lingering candy breath.

6th has a wet mild sweet honey and candy taste. Chest feeling are mild happy uplifting mild feeling. Long sweet breath. 

7th infusion is left in a cup for a few days… it tastes very oily and sweet candy cherry dark cocoa almost medicinal woody.  Chest feeling and happy qi. 

8th is back into flash steepings here and it is light fruity very faint smoke that fades away and slight woody. Mainly sweet. Happy uplifting.

9th has a sweet fruity peach pear and woody faint faded smoke in far distance.  Happy up lift faint chesty now.

10th is a long minutes long steeping oops.. left to cool and is a sweet oily medicinal woody with long sweet profile faint distant smoke and peachy fruity sweet taste.

Long mug steeping of spent leaves… is an oily sweet bitter with long oily sweet fruity taste.  A nice sweet easy to drink tea for the price.

Peace

2011 Yang Qing Hao Tian Tsang

Ok I stated the notorious 2011 Yang Qing Hao line up with this 2011 Yang Qing Hao Tian Tsang that goes for $800.00 for 500g or $1.60/g…. I have been really looking forward to trying this 2011 years line up ….

Dry leaves are very tightly pressed have a sweet honey smoke reminds me of Menghai not Yiwu immediately…

First infusion is still watery from the tight compression … should be a longer session watery faint hard to grasp sweetness.

Second infusion has a faint smoke and tobacco leaf taste.  Mouthwatering feeling.  Sweet returning.  Vibrant sweet mild underneath. Still pretty mild but tastes are emerging seems like it’s going to be a really nice Menghai/ Bu Lang long shot for Ban Zhang…

Third infusion has a very light smoke with long sweet taste. Sort of buttery caramel tobacco leaf mild taste.  Cool breath relaxing ease of mind a happy focus. Long mild delicious sweet finish. Chest beats.

Fourth infusion is a smooth sweet taste throughout long mild slight complex in the way it gently evolves.  Mild taste smooth.  Chest beats and energon relaxing focus.

5th has a sweet almost tobacco leaf subtle smoke with long sweet almost caramel sort of taste.  Wet soft mouthfeel and strong chest beats and chest sensations.  Such a nice focused chill vibes.  Happy high focused with strong chest thumbs.

6th is left to cool and is a sweet wet smooth sweetness with faint hard to grasp smoke.  Big chest beats and expanding chest intensity.

7th has a sweet soft smoke long wet mouthwatering caramel sweetness.  Big chest feeling juicy long sweetness that lingers long on the breath as if it’s reaching with sweetness. Big relaxing sighs with strong chest feeling!

8th … I re-visit the leaves the next day and dive right into the flash steepings… it’s is quite sweet very smooth rich velvet with a returning sweetnesss within a long initial-to-breath sweetness.  Mouthwatering and oily wet mouthfeel.  Yummy high quality Bulang/ Ban Zhang here!

9th pot clogged a bit… smooth sweet oily mouthwatering with faint smoke… big chest beats and happy high energy surge long sweet profile mild but noticeable classy smoke.

10th a sweet honey thick oily long taste from initial to breath smoke is glassy but chest beats mild silty mouthfeel on tongue now.

11th has a oily wet long sweet profile becoming more silty and slight rougher smoke.  

12th is left to cool and has an almost mesquite bbq smoke taste- sweet mesquite!  A smooth oily wet mouthfeel as it cools down.  

13th has a sweet vibrant still almost peachy sweetness that is long with silty smoke.  Long sweet fruity on breath!  

14th has a wet oily mouthfeel with silty smoke underneath mainly sweet. Smokey sweetness.  Big chesty feels still with sleepy relaxing and big energy focus.

15th is sweet silty oily long sweet with silty smoke. Oily chalky feel big qi builds in chest and mind upward.

I put the rest of the still somewhat compressed leaves into a long mug steeping… it is quite oily and nicely sweet throughout with a long oily rich sweet taste.  Very rich oily viscus sweet taste. Some bitterness and smoke. Big chest qi feeling and happy energy surge and high.

Very high quality Bulang me thinks! Me like E!

Peace

Sneak Up!!! 2010 Yang Qing Hao Shen Yun Tian Cheng

This 2010 Yang Qing Hao Shen Yun Tian Cheng goes for $1020.00 for 500g cake or $2.04/g  is another of the really expensive … it claims to be high quality Bo He Tang on the site and I can concur to the best of my abilities that this could be early Bo He Tang on the wild side!

Dry leaves are a woody papery dry sweet almost tobaccco faint leaf odour.

Rinsed leaves have a warming spice sweet woody odour.

First infusion has a warming spicy woody almost honey or brown sugar with a metalic malty sweet taste.  Sticky full mouthfeel with some bitterness in the mouth.  

Second infusion has a sour sweet almost fruity orange blossom not really with a brassy malty sweet taste.  Slight bitter and sour more than sweet. Oily texture with thicker chalky feeling.  Very nice sweet floral almost purfume finish.

Third infusion is left to cool and is a malty sweet with a sweet floral malty honey finish.  Sticky a bit thicker mouthfeeling with deep honey lingering on the breath minutes later.

Fourth infusion is a sweet creamy honey sweet taste.  Long creamy sweet with honey layer. Oily chalky sweet honey is nice with a light chest beats and swelling chest and mild happy focusing.  

5th has a sweet pear and honey onset with an oily thicker chalky feeling.  Swelling chest.  Creamy chalky sweet with deeper honey layer.  Happy mild high feeling.

6th has a sweet almost sour honey taste with oily mouthfeel and menthol finish.  Mild happy feeling.  

7th has a sour plum sour slight bitter/ astringent with a woody creamy sweet and honey flavour underneath. Mild happy feeling.

8th is a honey sweet taste with long honey finish.  Mild chest and happy feelings.

9th has an apple and spice and woody taste with honey base.  Happy relaxing mild qi with mild chest sensation.  Nice honey long base taste.

10th has a cookie and honey sweet taste tastes of almond and honey is very delicious.  Chest is fluttery and I feel an anxious energy lingering.

11th has a brassy sweet honey taste with an anxious energy in the chest.  Powerful slow build up in the chest and mind. Trapped build up of chest energy feels like anxiety maybe.

12th I put the spent leaves into a long thermos steeping… it is honey berries sweet with cooling almost menthol berries.  Silty sweet berries long taste and finish.  Still some chest feelings and energy.  

Has nuances/ character of wild tea/ Yesheng such as long lingering taste and energy that can feel anxious.  There is a uniquely amazing quality about the Qi of this tea- it is quite relaxing enjoyable and unassuming until it isn’t and the Qi all of a sudden hijacks you… and you experience this spectacular surge of almost anxious energy in the chest…. It’s an experience for sure!

Peace

2010 Yang Qing Hao Longtuan FengMei

Sample from Liquid Proust around 2020/2021… there isn’t much left… this was high on my list to purchase a few years back when it was a little cheaper… this 2010 Yang Qing Hao Longtuan FengMei goes for $450.00 for 500g cake or $0.90/g.

The dry leaves go straight into the pot rinsed leaves have a  sweet bread spice odour.

First infusion has a watery sweet with a carrot and spice taste. Cooled down it is watery sweet …

Second infusion has a sweet mild fruity peachy taste.  Cooling breath and sweet herby medical finish with creamy sweet mainly.  Heavy eyes qi feeling heavy head.

Third infusion is a herby dry woody with a sweetness underneath the mouthfeel is chalky and oily/wet.  Cool breath and mild candy sweetness finish it off.  Long lingering chalky sweet taste. Eye balls and head heavy mild qi there happy feeling.

4th is left to cool and is mainly sweet with a herbs medical base.  Faint incense smoke but mainly steady sweetness underneath with happy feeling some qi feeling in the eyes, head and heavy shoulders.

5th has a watery herbs woody a bit of coco bread sweetness creamy sweetness slight incense ver very mild hard to detect smoke.  Wet oily sweet with some incense/ herbs mild depth. Happy feeling moderate mild qi.

6th has a watery sweet incense almost dry woody herbs and coco tastes- balanced mild and a bit complex. Sticky mouthfeel mainly with wet coating.  Heart beats and face qi.

7th is left to cool it is sweet and refreshing with a mild long melon cooling taste. Happy mild qi.

8th is left to cool and has a cool creamy flat sweetness with a gentle mild energy happy feeling.  

An overnight steeping of spent leaves is sweet wet oily smooth slight cooling but not much left in these leaves.

Days long steeping is very cherry fruity pop sweetness with delicious fruity blend sweetness vibrant and delicious candy fruity mix! Tastes like a popsicle flavour! 

I was looking into purchasing this agreeable blend a few years ago but after the price went up significantly I decided against it… I like the complex mild flavours and smooth nature of this one.

Peace

2009 Yang Qing Hao 888 Gong Pin

This 2009 Yang Qing Hao 888 Guan Pin goes for $900 for 500g cake or $1.80/g. It’s one of the higher end ones such as the 600 years tree posted yesterday…

Dry leaves have a woody almost dry vegetal sweet odour.

First infusion has a watery light almost woody floral dry grassy hard to grasp flavour with a slow to evolve long mild cooling candy faint breath. Long candy even minutes later. Relaxing chest flutters.

Second has a malty sweet pure taste that evolves into a long distinct bubble gum / candy sweet taste.  Soft mouthfeel and floating focused feeling.  Long sweet candy taste.  Chest flutters. Deep focusing and reflection like standing outside one’s body.

Third infusion has a mild clear almost herby cool medical sweetness with a long clear sweet candy finish. Super strong ethereal qi that takes me outside my body and gives me productive focus and perspective at the same time! Heart flutters…. A really beautiful experience for me here!

Fourth is a pure sweet clear herby mild sweetness with long bubble candy sweet taste even minutes later. Out of body focusing energy that is profound matches with fluttering chest and deep diaphragm feeling. Very nice Qi feeling top notch! Cooled down it has a melon sweet pure taste long creamy sweetness. Strong qi in the mind.

5th has a creamy sweetness pure taste with a chalky sweet taste that turns into long candy breath. Profound Qi feelings! Mind focused. Cooled its sweet melon and creamy custard with long answer finish.

The next day I go back to flash steeping… 6th has a sweet fruity clear taste wet mouth with almost metallic and spice nuances.cooled down it has more of a long faint candy finish.  Qi not as strong but some floating and lightness. Cooled down it has a talc sweetness.

7th has a watery sweet taste with a sweet slight tight almost astringent tight feeling in the mouth.  Cooling breath long faint sweetness on breath.

8th I put into a long mug infusion… it has a dark herby moderate bitter mild astringency oily mouthfeel with distant menthol cooling.  Slight medicinal herby taste.  Spicy mild taste.  Space-out feeling.  Strong out of body qi here lots of chest slow and strong feeling.

An overnight infusion is oily coco very sweet with fresh melon nice chesty qi with face as well and sweet coco melon deliciousness. Slight silty mouthfeel smooth in the mind elevating and spacy.  This is one of Yang Qing Hao’s best for sure…

Peace

2007 Yang Qing Hao 600 Year Old Tree

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2007 Yang Qing Hao Lingya

I think this one is still sold out but I picked up one of the last cakes for sale in 2021? I think.  I have posted about it before of my allergic types of reactions to it … but this time I did’t experience the allergies as bad and its was a great Gushu experience for me… this is of great value for those who picked it up cheap!

Dry leaves have an airy light very sweet cloying odour with slight cherry and hay.

Rinsed leaves have a sweet darker odour.

First infusion has a sweet wet cherries pure taste with an evolution towards darker tastes.  Wet salivating oily texture.  Talc sweet finish. Happy mild high feeling with scalp tinging and face tingling almost itchy. Cooled down it is very creamy sweet talc long chalky sweet presence.

Second infusion has a resin woody very oily pop high note cherry almost sour sweet with a long deepening into darker sweetness of dark cherries but maintaining a light vibrant sweetness. Chalky oily salivating with mid throat deep breath.  Very smooth and nice evolution.  Happy high feeling with stronger face and scalp itchy tingling.  Stronger Calming feeling.Slow chest beats.

Third has a strong oily cherry smooth saliva producing evolving to darker sweetness chalky elegant and calm with a calming peaceful feeling. Cooled down is darker sweet and chalky talc with chalky mild silty feeling slow beats with chest swelling and happy feeling.  

4th is left to cool and is a sour sweet cherry pop with oily throat simulating slight pucker cherries.  Sour cherries with sour pucker.., happy calm feeling with stronger scalp, face and arms itchy, tingling.

5th is left to cool and gives off a wet sweet coco with an oily sticky almost but not quite gripping with warming feeling in the face and head… body feeling targets the face head and scalp and light and tingling limbs!   Nice happy high and peaceful feeling warming energy.  

6th is a sweet cherry oily that goes into a darker coco.  Silty chalky mouthfeel with warming face and head scalp with light limbs and spaced out peaceful feeling.  

7th is a sweet woody smooth plum taste I feel very high and peaceful warm face… very nice.

8th is flash steeped from leaves left overnight… it is left to cool and is sweet plum oily.  

The ninth is plum oily wet watery sweet taste. Very pleasant.

I put the rest into a long mug steeping overnight and it is a vibrant cherry dark fruits sweetness in an oily mouthfeel with still some itchy ting going qi in the face head and scalp.  

This turned into a real nice puerh for its price…. The itch was less this tasting!! The cakes that sold out fast at Yang Qing Hao are all real nice… including this one.

Peace

2007 Yang Qing Hao XiShi Shenpin:Damnit!!!!!!!

 

This 2007 Yang Qing Hao Shi Shih Shen Pin or as it is also transliterated above goes for $850.00 for 500g cake or $1.70/g…. Always been quite pricey …. But mind blowing…

Dry leaves have a woody dry distant syrup sweet odour.

Rinsed leaves have a deep woody faint sweetness.

First infusion has a sweet creamy woody vibrant popping sweet taste. With a creamy wave of sweet evolution.  It’s one of those layered evoking sweet tastes.  Full thin chalky covering the mouth.  Cooled down it is creamy layered sweet taste with creamy chalky moderate coat with full feeling and cooling breath.

2nd infusion has a creamy woody layered chalky creamy fruity almost cocolate sweet taste.  Thick full and evolving complex taste.  With coco chocolate back bone.  Long cool breath deep throat opening chest beats lots of sweeet salivating mouth. Long lingering breath coco. Spirit elevated Qi feeling. Energized euphoria. Cooled down it is a sweet oily creamy layered honey fruity woody coco almost vegital sweetness. A strong spacy euphoria high.

3rd has a creamy woody dense creamy custard fruity coco.  Cool breath deep throaty feel.  Sweet oily complex layered and evolving sweetness. Sticky full mouthfeel. Deep throaty feel opening traps in the flavour. 

Fourth is cooled right down and tastes a creamy layered honey creamy custard sweet taste.  Sweet creamy layered long finish deep throaty flavours. Strong mind floating but also focusing power.  Big chest beats and chest releasing feeling.  Fluttering chest sensations with face tingling Qi- complex body feeling.

Fifth infusion has a woody creamy cooling pungent woody grassy tastes. Less sweet but layered and evolving.  Thick chalky feeling in the mouth and throat .  Cooling deep breaths. Spacy euphoric high with mind focused balance.  Creamy sweet long almost coco breath sweetness.

6th is left to cool and is a creamy sweet woody grassy/ vegital slight wet mouthfeeling.  With long cool breath with a sweetness left in the mouth.  Big chest beats and focusing relaxing euphoria.

7th is left to cool and is a water cooling sweet taste with a wooody background evolving taste.  Sweet finish is still long.  Mouthfeel is full still but thinning out.  Reading more than focusing or euphoric now.

8th has a watery sweet woody taste.  Cooling breath goes deep . Nice relaxing energy.

9th is flash steeping the next day and is watery creamy sweet taste.  Long mild chalky sweetness in wet still pretty full Mouthfeel.

10th is a long mug steeping and is woody dark bitter coco with a sticky dry gripping mouthfeel.  Strong feeling still.  Big chest sensations.  

Days long mug steeping of spent leaves is thick smoke and incense with deep dense evolving coco layers and deep throat with powerful qi sensations in the face and chest.  Deep layered evolving bitter sweetnesses coco and chocolate tastes. In and thick mouthfeel and deep throat feel. Profound spaced out feeling.  Dense evolving tastes, strong Qi and excellent mouthfeel… so good! Too bad it’s always been priced high… darn it because mines all gone …

Peace

2007 Yang Qing Hao HuangShan JinCha

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2007 Yang Qing Hao Huangshan Tuo

 

I purchased this 2007 Yang Qing Hao Huangshan Toucha (now at $175.00 for 300g nest or $0.58/g) a year ago it was a bit cheaper than it is selling for now when I got the samples, I believe and I quite like it and will probably order more.  I have written up two sets of tasting notes by accident so I’ll just post them both on here for those that like to read these things..,,

Dry leaves have a creamy sweet odour.

Rinsed rich creamy slight smoky sweet pungent odour.

First infusion is a medicinal sweet deep rich sweet taste.  Tingling mouthfeel.  Full sweet taste long in mouth with dense mouthfeel.  Big expanding chest and facing body feel.

Second infusion has a creamy sweet full menthol medicinal pungent cooling thick dense full taste.  Cooled down it is pungent deep creamy very sweet almost bitter long sweet finish mixed with cooling pungent medicinal.  Big chest and face feelings.

Third is a creamy very sweet dense taste.  Smooth creamy with hints of smoke background.  Bodyfeeling in chest and face is considerable with tingling face and opening chest feeling. Lots of long dense sweetness.  Delicious deeper tastes.

Fourth has a menthol sweet pungent cooling onset with full chalky almost mild bitterness.  Full mouthfeel long deep cooling throat.  Spacy heart beats and happy uplifting feelings.

Fifth has a sweet dense creamy sweet onset with a medicinal bitter cooling pungent dense mid and deep throat long breath cooling sweet finish.  Happy mind somewhat euphoric with face and body tingling.

6th has a creamy menthol medicinal slight mild bitterness. Big spacy out happy.  Cooled down is more sweet a melon bitter sweet long sweet melon taste with big Qi.

7th has a creamy sweet onset with less bitter and medicinal but still a long menthol cooling pungent.   Sweet melon aftertaste.  Long deep melon sweetness with a thicker mouthfeeling and space out happy Qi face and chest sensations.

8th has a sweet talc fruity finish with chalky thicker mouthfeel.  Thick sweet creamy mild bitterness slight background smoke.  Longer melon finish.  Starting to be gripping mouthfeel.  Long fruity finish in the mouth. Moderately strong chest feelings.

9th has a creamy woody drier slight gripping now with bitter pulling and long sweet taste.

10th is a long mug steeping of spent leaves and is dark bitter and sweet. Syrupy sweet but mainly woody bitter. Bigger qi still in here. In chest, face and uplifting relaxing

Overnight steeping of spent leaves is a very sweet syrupy oily cooling very layered and long sweet taste.  Thin oily feeling long throat opening and breath taste…. Very delicious.

Days long steeping next days with spent leaf is very sweet creamy coco with deeper sweet layers of coco and bread sweetness almost fruity melon. Chalky full tongue.

*****Another set of notes below!!

Dry leaves have a very sweet pungent almost floral sweet soapy fresh sweet odour.

Rinsed leaves have an almost coco sweet dark cherry sweet odour.

First infusion has a clear vibrant sweetness slight melon slight candy creamy.  Oily wet mouthfeeling.  Cooling breath. Slight happy spacy feel.

Second infusion is left to cool and is a wet creamy sweet vibrant cooling creamy wet sweet taste. Creamy sweet cooling deep breath.  Chest opening and face tingling. Happy feeling inside.

Third infusion has a juicy almost grape/melon sweet pop then chalky creamy throat and breath. Happy uplifting energy surging happy/ euphoria.  

Fourth left to cool has a vibrant clear sweetness wet mouthfeel deeper throaty breath sweetness almost cooling and saliva producing.  Happy floating Qi feeling takes me away a bit!

Fifth infusion is a wet with subtle smoke and very vibrant pure sweet burst.  Wet and salivating with sweet and chalky mouthfeel.  Face numb and tingling with some head floating happy feeling.

Sixth is left to cool and is a wet sweet clear vibrant pop with some woody finish cooling throw creamy candy.  Mouthfeel a bit more coarse now but Spacy high happy feeling with tingling numb face. Sweet pop then into a woody finish.  Chest beats and high feeling.

Seventh has a creamy candy melon pop of vibrant sweet taste then woody silty mouthfeeling. Cooled down is a wet melon sweet mild pop then silty almost woody with big chest beats.  

8th is a sweet pop of melon and sweeet candy then quick to silty long breath cooling sweet pure vibrancy with uplifting happy highly slight floating spacy.

9th infusion is left in the cup overnight… the next day it is viscus oily mildly sweet with a grainy silty mouthfeel and mild happy uplifting and bigger chest and face body feeling.

10th … back to flash steeps here… it is an oily wet feeling with a cooling almost woody camphor silty mouthfeeling with slight rich woody with mild sweetness underlying.

11th has an ooily silty mouthfeel with a woody almost but not really camphor.  

12th is much the same do I put it into a long mug steeping and it is rich oily silty slightly bitter coco with a strong happy high feeling and strong face tingling and chesty Qi.

Days long steeping of the spent leaf further reveals a sweet dark sweetness with a silty mouthfeel and happy high feeling still!

I like this one for the price and will probably buy more!

Peace