2024 vs 2023 Tea Encounter YiShanMo Gushus!

 

Tiago sent me the 2024 Tea Encounter YiShanMo Gushu (approx $160 for 250g cake or $0.64/g) sometime this past Autumn/ Winter and I have been eagerly anticipating trying it when the weather got hot and when the first heatwave of the year hit, I had it in my pot…. But before I did that I sampled Tea Encounter’s 2023 YiShanMo ($83.00 for 200g cake or $0.41/g) first and did a comparison here…. Hahaha….

2023 Tea Encounter Yi Shan Mo

Dry leaves have a very sweet sugar and floral with a faint forestry not quite barnyard but complex high and low odours.

Rinsed leaves have deep forest slight barnyard even less sweet smell.

First infusion has a clear pure forest taste with barnyard Forest nuances as the min taste with a faint sweetness hard to grasp underneath.  Lingering sweet lime on the breath. 

Second has a sweet pure watery clear taste with a barnyard forest base and lime then barnyard forest sweet breath.  An airy evolution of taste here.

Third left to cool and is a sweet light watery with deeper barn yard forest taste long profile of elegant airy taste.  Very light in the body Qi… light chest and limbs feeling.

Fourth has a buttery sweet floral faint oily textured mouthwatering taste. Nice and oily wet mouth long taste profile is gentle.  Soothing light in body qi.  Chest and limbs floating mild and gentle Qi.  Long sweet limes fresh fruity breath with faint barnyard forest breath.

5th is a sweet pure fruity onset with faint barnyard forest base long lime and barnyard faint sweet finish.  Lots of subtle complexity.  No bitterness nor astringency smooth and satisfying.  Cooled down it is more buttery sweet with nice oily wet texture. Light limbs and chest.

6th is an oily viscus texture mouthfeel with a buttery sweet taste soft evolving sweet tastes of pear and maybe peach…. Mainly pear… light feeling in the body… light limbs. Cooled down it is pear sweet water with mild oily textured mouthwatering taste and chalky sweet forest finish.

7th has a watery buttery oily textured mouthwatering taste with soft transition& to sweet aftertaste mild forest taste. Light airy Qi feeling.

8th is a watery almost woody sweetness it’s becoming a bit insipid with still an airy light limbs qi.

9th is an overnight thermos steeping… it has a smooth watery oily sweet taste chalky feeling underneath no bitterness or astringency at all this session including here in the long steep… 

10th day later steeping is oily sweet long fresh chalky oily viscus texture pure sweet vibrant.  Long fresh candy melon… 

2024 Tea Encounter Yi Shan Mo Gushu

Dry leaves have a very sweet almost candy odour to them subtle deep forest odours.

Rinsed leaves sweet forest odours.

First infusion is a fresh sweet oily watery mouthwatering taste. So fresh and vibrant with an evolution oily sweet profile and a lime fresh candy aftertaste. Vibrant and bright and sparkling vibrancy.

Second infusion has a banana and tropical fruity taste smooth evolution of sweet taste.  Long candy tropical fruity finish. Clear flavours with a subtle faint forest taste throughout no astringency or bitterness at all fluffy mouthfeel with some oily textured mouthwatering taste.

Third infusion has a very sweet candy buttery vibrant pop of taste.  Smooth creamy buttery feeling and taste with edges of melon and green grapes. Vibrant pops of sweet tastes.  Light chest and mild qi feeling.  Mouthwatering candy breath. Faint sticky mouth.

Fourth is a sweet pop of delicious tastes fruity with a moderately thick chalky mouthfeel.  Long almost melon sweet tastes they turns to candy on the mouth.  Face qi is evident now.  Salivating mouthfeel. Light limbs heavy shoulders.

5th is a sour sweet almost floral chalky and melon sweet taste with forest chalky woody base and almost turn to candy woody melon finish.  The qi is mild with heavy shoulders and light limbs. A sticky mouthfeeling. 

6th is a sweet oily fruity taste with creamy buttery taste.  Some pops of melon and some slight dirt… faint chest flutters and some mild face I and shoulders heavy.

7th is a sweet slight pungent sweet forestry woody sweet taste.  Some chest flutters and beats with energy mild uplift and mind scatter.  Cooled down it is a bit more melon sweet with candy and lime aftertaste. Heavy shoulders and light qi to limbs.

8th left to cool is a woody slight sour slight sweet smooth chalky a bit oily watery some deep energy buildup with this one…. It gives me energy but never astringent nor bitter at all

9th is a long thermos steeping comes out moderately bitter and woody deeper uplifting moderate energy.  

Days long infusion is oily viscus with a woody Forest base  taste with slight bitterness woody.

2023 vs 2024 I liked the 2023 Tea Encounter YiShanMo considerably more.  For its unwavering long evolution of sweetnesses, light airy Qi, and absolutely no signs of bitter astringency. Purity. It would be nice to revisit the 2024 as it thickens in a year or two.

Peace

2006 Yang Qing Hao Shua Ya

 

I got this sample a few years ago from Liquid Proust and had posted about it a few years back at that time… and it has since sold out…. This is the remainder of that sample…

Dry leaves have a floral odour to them almost but not exactly like aged white tea.

Rinsed leaf is sweet floral dried apricot.

First infusion has a sweet flowery soft sort of peach taste thought out.  

Second infusion has a peach dried aporitott taste.  Soft mouthfeel mild sleepy feel good.

Third infusion is a watery sweet peachy almost metalic.  Metalic very oily sweet peachy.  Cool breath. Happy sleepy feeling.cooled down it is juicy pure brassy peachy taste. Slight oily feeling soft mouthfeel.

Fourth infusion has a clear sweet peachy and cool it is a really pure watery sweet peach brassy taste. Mild Qi relaxing feeling.

5th has a watery brassy apricot sweet breath taste.  A soft mouthfeel a deeper throat cooling.  Brassy light watery sweet. Relaxing feeling some head tingles and heaviness.

6th is a mild watery but nice mild flavour brassy peach taste.  There is an almost cooling pungent taste in there as well. 

7th is a flash steeping left in the cup overnight and is an oil sweet sort of brassy almost caramel sweet taste.

Overnight steeping of spent leaves is a metalic floral mainly sweet taste. With a chalky metalic mouthfeel.  

Enjoyable light fruity tippy outlier Yang Qing Hao production.

Peace

High Again…. 2006 Yang Qing Hao ChaWangShu

I sampled and posted this one before… although my last post on this one has a negative slant on the storage.  It seems to be doing well with longer dry storage and if you can look away from some aspects of the more typical Yang storage (wait but I like Yang Storage awayways) you are really treated to a phenomenal treat in one of the best ChaWangShu qi experiences on the market… this is really what keeps me coming back to this one…. The price is reasonable for what you get in that…

This 2006 Yang Qing Hao ChaWangShu goes for $440.00 for 500g cake or 0.88/g.

Dry leaves have a swampy leaf sweet almost faint floral.

Rinsed leaves have a sweet woody fallen leaf odour.

First infusion has a watery sweet creamy talc sweet emerging sweet layered taste.  Thirst quenching light layered sweet watery taste. Cooled down is a light leafy sweet creamy finish.  Strong qi starts to flutter the mind.

Second very high stoned feeling… do much so I forgot to write some notes…

Third left to cool is a creamy leaf deep sweet layered with an almost sour dry talc and melon sweet creamy chalky full sweet finish…, floating body super stoned feeling tingling limbs face everything.., strong body qi.., 

Fourth is a sweet leaf melon layered creamy chalky finish with long lingering melon leaf sweet chalky super high! Everything is high! Floating out of body feeling. So strong qi feeling.

Fifth the next day is sweet melon chalky long sweet taste.  Clear sweet melon with slight leaves.  Deep high floating body feeling.

Sixth infusion has a sweet leaf melon chalky evolving sweet sugar to creamy chalky almost melon.  Nice evolving sweet taste. Face and body tingling and floating big Qi high!

Seventh has a leaf creamy chalky sweet taste almost melon almost sugar chalky throat feeling long sweet evolution deep powerful out of body floating high feeling. Cooled down it is watery creamy sweet leaf and soft chalky slight almost faint bitter woods.  Out of body floating stoned high is still there…

Eighth is left to cool and has a woody sweet almost resin woody sweet. Long sweetness but also woody big chest opening floating feeling. Chalky talc appears even melon in the cooled down liquid.

9th has a woody resin leaf talc chalky taste.  Long sweetness throughout. With resin woody.  Chest opening but qi feeling.

Qi is strong out of body floating euphoria high…. What else can I really say…. It messes you up good…

Peace

2006 Yang Qing Hao Yeh Cha Wang

I also tried this one before from a sample from Liquid Proust a few years back.  This 2006 Yang Qing Hao Yeh Cha Wang goes for $470.00 for 500g cake or $0.94/g.

Dry leaves have a very sweet candy creamy classic Yiwu sweet odour.

First infusion has a smooth creamy sweet taste wet mouth with moderate chalky feeling in mouth in a classic Yang Qing Hao storage.  Long sweet finish and cool breath with throat opening.  Chest expanding and deep breath relaxing.

Second infusion has a sweet creamy onset with a long deep creamy throat and long creamy sweet finish on the chalky mouthfeel.  Space out relaxing a floating head and mind feeling.  Shoulders and arms heavy. Oily wet mouth with moderate fully chalky mouthfeel and deep thoat cooling and sweetness.  

Third infusion has a sweet woody creamy thick sweet taste that sticks right with the chalky mouthfeel and deep into the throat and long onto the breath.  Spacy relaxing.  Long creamy sweet even minutes later.

4th creamy sweet fruity melon pops sweet onset oily wet mouth salivating with chalky sweet mouth coverage.  Deep throat long clear sweet taste.  Full sweet feeling big relaxing feeling good qi with heavy limbs and shoulders and a big in the face body feeling.

5th is left to cool and is a sweet melon taste strong sweet tastes in this puerh that really fill the mouth, throat, and breath.  Creamy, melon, sometimes almost woody long sweet taste.  Spacy relaxing with heavy limbs bodyfeeling.  

6th is left to cool and is a woody creamy sweet in a smooth full chalky mouthfeeling. Less full and strong sweetness which is starting to give way to woodier tastes. Heavy shoulders relaxation.  Slight drier chalky mouthfeel with let wet oily textures.

7th has a watery sweet melon creamy taste.  Melon pops sweetness.  Happy relaxing feeling through the day.,,classic Yiwu taste and feel.

8th is left in the cup overnight and is a sweet oily with deep throaty sweetness.  Woody slight dry mouth with oily texture.

Long mug spent leaves steep is oily sweet rich oily sweet woody tasting dense thick syrup sweetness.  

I believe this very well could be the same garden as the 2005 Yiwu Cha Wang it has a familiar feeling to it…but the 2006 is a bit better fuller and sweeter with a bit deeper Qi!

Peace

2006 Yang Qing Hao Yeh Chang Hsiang

This 2006 Yang Qing Hao Yeh Chang Hisiang goes for $380.00 for 500g cake or $0.76/g… a blend of Autumn and Spring Yiwu the site says… I tried this one before with a sample from Liquid Proust and was considering but never went ahead with a purchase…

Dry leaves have a herby sweet creamy odour.

Rinsed leaves are a bit salty woody herby.

First infusion has a long creamy pure icing sugar taste.  There is a mild dry wood and almost faint raisins.  Cool throat deep throat opening as the creamy icing sugar transforms into cooling breath.  Mild chalky mouthfeel.

Second infusion has a creamy herby icing sugar with a long creamy sweeet icing sugar taste that extends long into the finish.  Some dry woody sort of vegital finish in mouth.  Deep opening of chest.  Spacy high feeling.

3rd is a bit spicy brown sugar icing sugar and creamy sweet layers in the initial taste.  There is a vegital sweet taste in the middle flavours.  Dry woody bark but a deep cool breath soft chalky sandy mouthfeel. Cool breath.  Complex taste.  Deep chest opening and spaced out feeling good qi.  Dryer stored than other Yang Qing Shao and also many smaller leaves, with maybe tighter rolled production and/ or possibly some Wild Tea/ Yesheng in the mix… interesting outlier Yang Qing Hao.

4th infusion has a vegital bitter root vegetable slight incense smoke with lesser underlying sweetness and saltiness.  Sort of slight dry woody vegital left in mouth.  Spacy high. Chest opening neck release with jaw light and head light. 

5th has an almost resin woody vegetal salty taste with a dry woody mid and a mild sweetness and mild bitterness with salty taste.  Minutes later a faint caramel appears.  Chest beats and mind feels very high.  Mouthfeel is slight dry and oily.

6th has a sort of salty spice woody caramel incense onset complex moderate tastes.  Cooling breath smoke incense.  Almost vegital wood dry finishing taste.  Slight drying mouthfeel.  Big chest beats spacy high feeling with jaw and face light feeling.

7th cooled down is a sweet smoke incense salty woody faint caramel cool breath.  Less sweet and more salty bitter smoke. Big spaced out highs. 

8th has a sweet smoke day woody almost salty herb taste. Cooled down has a salty herb and caramel with cool breath slightly smoke finish. Spaced out feeling. Chest opening jaw and face feels light and loose.

9th was an hours long mug steeping and it comes out dense oily herbs medicinal moder bitterness and some dry wood vegital faint coco rootbeer tastes.  Dense and complex salty medicinal tastes and some lesser smoke incense.  Big spaced out feeling.

Long mug steeping of spent leaves is a bitter herbal vegital with medical root dry woody taste.  Tingling mouthfeel smoke background.  

This puerh is definitely on my radar to purchase due to its reasonable price.  I dropped it from my last order but it was the final cut from the order…. The price had just gone up, I think, and I went for better value… this one is a good contender for next order … still not sure…

Peace

2006 Yang Qing Hao Shenpin Chawang

I got a cake of this in 2021 this sample is from that cake…

Nowadays this 2006 Yang Qing Hao Shenpin goes for $900.00 for 500g cake or $1.80/g.

Dry leaves are very sweet and fragrant with a woody floral sweet smell.

First infusion has a purfume sweet floral with vibrant fruity tastes, raisin, cherry, vibrant sweet tastes and numbing full chalky mouthfeel.  Talc incense fruity chalky finish.  Deep throat opening and some cooling.  Shoulder and chest releasing… deeper hypnotic relaxation and tension busting.

Second infusion has a sweet spicy sweet with pops of fruity.  Smooth sweet layers and pops with a smooth chalky talc sweet finish.  Faint lingering spice and deep throat opening.  Soft and chalky full mouthfeel.  Deep shoulders release.   Spacy almost hypnotic feel good Qi.

Third infusion is a very creamy layered sweetness with thicker sticky chalky coating deep throat.  Deep fruity tastes.

Fourth infusion has a creamy chalky talc with mild fruity sweet layers.  Spacy almost hypnotic high with mild energy bump.cooled it is a smooth almost apricot sweetness with subtle honey layers, creamy layers. Stronger deep complex Qi makes you feel high and hypnotized with some energy to spare. Chest opening with shoulders releasing.

5th creamy spicy sweet layers chalky smooth creamy talc with subtle fruity layers, sugar layers, full mouthfeeling.  With a purfume floral sort of edge spacy complex with deep throat opening.

6th has a purfume sweet chalky talc mineral sweetness with chalky mouthfeel.  Cooled down has a woody mineral chalky almost bitter sweetness.  Spacy energy with chest and shoulders release.  I always feel really good from this Qi … I like it quite a bit.

7th cooled down has a talc mineral lesser sweet taste.  Chalky sticky mouthfeel with deep throat breath cooling. 

Hypno relaxing with ease of bodyfeeling shoulders and chest releasing m.  Tension buster!

8th the next day I give it another flash infusion and let it cool…. It comes out sweet chalky talc mineral.  Long breath returning creamy chalky almost fruity sweetness.  

Long mug steeping if spent leaves is a woody slightly bitter sweet tasting. Spacy high with body feels.  

I like this one quite a bit and shoulda picked up

More cakes …. Haha

Peace

2006 Yang Qing Hao Wu Yang Cha

 This 2006 Yang Qing Hao Wu Yang Cha goes for $540.00 for 500g cake or $1.08 /g.

Dry leaves smell of a faint creamy sweet almost faint forest musk.

Rinsed leaves have a mild distant sweetness faint purfume resin.

First infusion has a watery mild faded taste with edges of sweet grape.  Lingering mild pure sweet creamy taste.

Second infusion has a very pure mild almost grape sweetness very clean and pure no storage tastes that are typical of Yang Qing Hao in here.  Lingering also coco flavour is super mild.  Watery soft light mouthfeel.  Some edges of lips sticky. Subtle mind slowing Qi and mind easing relaxation.

Third infusion is cooled down and is a light coco melon.  Pure sweet coco melon taste in mild soft lips.  Very easy on most and mind some space out and deeper mind relaxing. Sleepy Qi.

4th is light pure watery coco chocolate.  Sleepy mind relaxing.  Light watery pure coco sweet very mild edges of melon and deep mind easing. Cooled down the melon and coco is more pronounced with some cooling.  Some breath coco but very light mouthfeeling.

5th has a spicy coco onset with faint perfume resin.  Soft but now a touch sticky mouthfeel.  Deeper cooling breath airy chest feeling.  Lingering very mild aftertaste of mild purfume coco. Deeply relaxing a sedative blissful feeling. Chest bubbling feeling.

6th tingling spicy cooling pungent onset with a resin purfume coco finish.  Complex yet pure and subtle taste is starting to appear a bit later here.  A bit bitter and numbing tasting.  Some sandy and sticky mouth and cool breath.   Chest bubbling. Cooled down it is a sweet coco melon with cooling breath and melon coco return over a chalky mouthfeel.  Bubbling chest and energy burst with deep mind slowing ease of minds.

7th infusion has a chalky coco almost cooling pungent herbal taste.  Slight sandy sticky mouthfeeling with mid back tension releasing and deep at ease mind.  Melon fruity finish and lingers in the mouth along with coco tastes.  Very nice Qi sensations here.  

8th has a fruity coco onset with a sandy sticky tongue and mouth.  Cooling talc and herbs with coco and melon most identifiable in the subtle complex taste.

Long mug steeping is a root herbal bitter medicinal slight cooling breath sort of coco?  Bitter medical power boost and chest strong beats.

Vs 2006 Yang Qing Hao Tian Hsiang Pao Pin- Light pure melon and coco tastes similar to the 2006 Tian Hsiang Pao Pin.  This 2006 Yang Qing Hao Wu Yang cha has Qi that is deeper and more sedating than the Tian Hsiang Pao Pin

Peace. 

2006 Yang Qing Hao Tian Pin

This 2006 Yang Qing Hao Tian Pin goes for $790.00 for 500g cake or $1.58/g.

Dry leaves have a very creamy woody strawberry very sweet odour.

Rinsed leaves have a peaty sweetness to them.

First infusion has a woody peaty sweet almost brassy bready taste with tingling mouthfeel and wet tongue salivating evolving sweet wet return with layered honey tastes over a thicker chalky fuller mouthfeeling.  Chest beats slow strong. Energy boost.

Second has a creamy woody a bit oily sweetness. Woody almost peat and pungent with an evolving lower honey sweetness. Chest beats and slowing breath mild energy boost.

Third infusion has a sweet honey peat I set full chalky mouthfeel.  Cooled down is a peat sweet almost honey in a chalky mouthfeel faint cool breath. Mild energy boost with chest and breathing slowed.

Fourth is a sour not that sweet peat not really honey but sort of vegital sort of bitter.  Bitter woody peat.  Thicker chalky feeling in mouth. Not much sweet taste but faint honey hard to grasp returning.

5th has a bitter bland vegital faint sweet sort of honey taste.  Some mild energy boost.  Faint return of sweetness under chalky bitter woody peat.

6th infusion has a watery bland woody taste…. Not too much left in here at only 6 infusion.  Some chest beats deep breathing.  Silty full chalky mouth faint lingering.cooled down its honey woody bland with full chalky taste.

7th infusion has a woody wet bland not thee see t honey sweet taste. Faint almost coco finish. Mild energy boost with mild chest beats.

8th is a long mug steeping which has a sweet rich oily wet texture nice smooth oil slick with trail off sweetness and some faint bitter coco subtle strawberry and cherries fruit hidden in there.

Smooth Gushu type of experience here…

Peace

2006 Yang Qing Hao Tian Hsiang Pao Pin

This 2006 Yang Qing Hao Tian Xiang Baopin goes for $390.00 for super big 600g cake or $0.65/g…. This is another I’ve always wanted to try…

Dry leaves have a creamy woody almost metalic odour.

Rinsed leaves have a sweet darker cherry bread sweetness. 

First infusion is a watery very mild sweet icing sugar almost fruity water.  Some faint icing sugar finish slight cool breath. Faint mild watery with talc creamy sweet finish. Soft sticky mild lips.  Peaceful feeling with mild chest upward Qi motion.

Second infusion left to cool is sweet cooling pungent minty oily watery mouthfeeling.  Almost floral almost fruity sweet sort of mild icing sugar sweetness with mild deep throat opening.  Peaceful almost calling trance.

Third infusion has an oily creamy icing sugar almost vegital minty mild sweet onset with mild deep throat opening hard to grasp taste that is mainly sweet and pungent sort of floral creamy.  Peaceful feeling with shoulders tingling and upwards chest and shoulders movement.

Fourth infusion has a creamy chalky mild coco chocolate taste.  Cooled down it has a milk chocolate cake taste.  Peaceful rising feeling.

Fifth infusion has a creamy chocolate oily wet mouth taste.  Oily wet coco taste.  Soft mouthfeel and faint deep throat opening.

6th infusion left to cool is a sweet wet watery taste with lingering and developing dark cocoa taste in wet mouth.  Upward movement peaceful feeling. Oily mouthfeel some deeper throat oily flavours of sweet coco.  

7th has a smooth coco almost vegital taste with oily wet coating returning mild coco.  Peaceful uplifting qi.  

8th is a long mug steeping and it has a resin coco almost floral taste with rising upward energy as if the chest and throat are moving up to the head… wild unique and very distinct body feelings Throughout the session here.  I really like this part of this tea.

…. Might pick one of these up next time…

Peace

2006 Yang Qing Hao Wu Shang Miao Pin

 

Fak!!!!! In my sample ordering from a year ago they were between sites and somehow missed the order of the only sample I really really wanted to try … the 2005 Wu Shang Miao Pin…. Oh well here we are at the 2006 Yang Qing Hao Wu Shang Miao Pin that goes for $900.00/500g cake or $1.80/g…

Dry leaves have a very creamy sweet odour.

First infusion has a creamy sweet pure cresting to fluffy creamy candy airy sweet taste.  Light airy fluffy strong pure candy sweetness.  Some almost vegital- melon.  Strawberry talc.  Juicy melon return candy.  Floating bodyfeeling and space out mind.

Second has a very sweet candy melon with a talc and woody menthol finish with pucker-dry mild tight mouthfeeling. Cooled down its creamy almost sour melon with a slight smdrying mouthfeel nice returning sweetness of candy melon.   Floating feeling with some face sweating.

Third infusion has a creamy melon sweet taste slight drug mouthfeel. Returning candy melon .  Spacy and floating qi.

4th is a creamy sweet woody with spacy mind and floating body. Cooled down its creamy almost candy woody with nice creamy candy returning taste.  Melon creamy candy.  Mouthfeel is more sticky than dry now.  Shoulders descend. Spacy high with mild body floating.

5th infusion has a creamy melon sweet onset chest light and body floating feeling some face mild warmth and sweating. Strong spaced out feeling like out of body.

6th woody watery melon sweet slight chalky puckering/dry but finishes creamy candy.  Spacy strong floating feeling.  Cooled down it is a creamy smooth melon almost talc mineral woody. 

7th has a smooth creamy sweet taste with melon and creamy sweet taste.  Slight cool breath chalky fluffy mouthfeel. Spacy high! 

8th is a long mug steeping and it is wet resin woody herby oily with a lower sweet oily taste. Sweet finish overall oily sweetness.

Peace

2006 Yang Qing Hao Qi Xiang:Again!

This is a go to drinker yea in my house. I like the unpredictable blend of this one which I have wrote about a few times previously on this blog…

From purchase a few years ago from Yang’s storage…Dry leaves have a sweet woody almost floral sweet odour with faint deeper leaf peat odours.

Rinsed leaves have a very sweet creamy floral almost salty pungent odour…, yummy

First infusion has a creamy complex salty woody metalic floral complex blended taste … lots of things… mainly lots of layered sweet taste creamy and candy and floral… silty full sticky lips and deep throat mild opening feeling complex again! Floating and mind expanding bodyfeeling.  Strong chest beats feel enlivening.  Strong energy feeling!

Second infusion is a creamy salty woody dirt creamy sweet deep dark and light all in one with a silty slight puckering dry lips and slight cooling opening throat.  Creamy floral almost reminds me that there must be more ManZhuang in this blend some infusions.  Wet mouth and slight dry balance in mouth with an overall complex taste feel and Qi big chest beats energy with uplifting body and shoulders face tingling.

Third infusion has a very sweet melon creamy sweet onset with a bready salty finish.  Salivating and wetness with sticky driness.  Strong chest beats energy. Floating levitating energizing. Clear focus mind and vision happy feeling- complex lots of things going on at once. Cooled down infusion is very cherry creamy pastry sweet with cake creamy candy sweet taste over salty woody layers with cool mild pungent sweet lingering.

Fourth infusion has a sweet honey creamy salty woody layers.  Big beats in the chest and energetic uplift.  Cooled down it tastes real sweet with a fruity melon creamy sweet pastry bready taste.  Woody salty depth.  Uplifting and relaxing with deep sighs. 

5th is salty woody sweet bread pastry mouthwater saliva producing sticky lips.  Complex taste tilts toward sweetness. Qi is mainly energizing but also relaxing.  Mouthfeel is full salivating slight sticky lips.

6th is left to cool is a sweet creamy woody savory with a cake pastry sweet finish that increasingly reminds me of Manzhuan.  Long candy creamy cake aftertaste. Chalky mouthfeel with sticky lips.  Creamy sweet chalky almost dark coco and cake savory. Upbeat and energetic but also slightly relaxing.

7th has a sour sweet fruity mellon taste savory base with woody but mainly layered sweet tastes nice sweetness and pastry bready sweet taste. Nice aftertaste of sweet candy breads salty creamy fruits.  Uplifting and relaxing with face relax and shoulders with mild chest beats and feeling.  Cooled down it is a creamy sweet initial taste that is supported by a savory salty base in a chalky full mouthfeel some mild deep throat opening and lingering candy creamy sweet tastes.

8th left to cool is sweet honey creamy candy bready pastry…. Lots of layering of sweetness.  Longer sweet mold finish. Spacy relaxing feeling here.

9th oops left the water on the leaves for a few minutes there… strong cherry plum fruity sweet with bitterness and some astringency.. sour cherries taste.., full mouthfeel with savoury body…pops of sweet taste saliva producing a bit dry and sticky in the mouth cooling deep throat pastry sweet finish.

10th I put into a long mug steeping… it is woody salty savoury with a deeper sweetness. Some bitter coco and mild astringency.  Silty full mouthfeeling.  Deep dark tasting clouds sweetness.

What’s not to love about this one?

Again please!

Peace

L

2020 Meng Xiang Geng Kan

 

Oh boy…. It’s been crazy busy in my life this winter…. I always say “ a good busy”…. As far as evaluating teas… Mainly I worked on sampling the complete Yang Qing Hao catalogue but didn’t finish it but have lots of posts to come on that! It seems things have slowed down for a bit here so if that pace continues… expect these posts to drop to come fast…

 Tiago of Tea Encounter was excited to send me the latest-  an early spring tasting of something still showing some fresher signs but starting into semi-aged.  I sampled it in the middle of a cold snap at the end of winter but it just seemed like the wrong tea to drink at that time…. So I sampled it again in the warmer Springtime and was pretty satisfying… 

Dry leaves have a sweet layering of honey and fresh fruits with a deep sweet pungency.

Rinsed leaves have a pungent piercing sweetness with a tropical orange sweetness sometimes a fruity banana and fresh fruits odour.  Smells familiar like Lincang even Bing Dao I have tried before even a familiar dry storage odour… 

First infusion has a nutty a bit salty tropical fruity bananas in a wet slippery feeling mouth with a background of spice.  Eyes and forehead expanding unique bodyfeeling. Chest expanding.  Tropical fruits left in the aftertaste.  

Tonnes of mouthwatering and juicy viscus saliva producing.  Spacy feel good.  Metallic salivating even a salty taste.  

Second infusion has a smooth fruity taste over a slippery mouthfeel.  Big chest swelling and tropical fruity but mainly an orange aftertaste with background spice and pungency.  Dense taste with a bitterness lingering in the background.  Lots of in-mouth taste and feeling less in-throat.  

Third infusion is left to cool and comes off tropical fruity sweet with a dense almost quick bitterness. Spacy mind.  Slippery a nice chest beats with an uplifting mood feeling.

Fourth infusion has a melon smooth tropical fruity dense taste hard to reach not real bitterness. Full oily viscus mouthfeel. Space out Qi.  Uplifting mood.

Fifth infusion has a bitter sour fruit onset. There is an oily feeling in the mouth with a low evolving bitter sour orange taste. Spacy qi feeling with open chest. Uplifting but lore spaced out focus. Shoulders a bit heavy and mind slowing a bit now.  

Sixth infusion has a sour fruity taste.  Wet almost bitterness in the mouth that fades away hard to grasp. Spacy mind chest mild feeling with heavy shoulder.

Seventh infusion has a bitter sour fruitiness.  Spacy mind. Some chesty beats.

Eighth sour sweet tropical fruity onset in an oily broth.  Mouthfeel but not much in the throat. Spaced out mind with done nice heart beats. Fruity sour almost bitter finish.

9th is left to cool and is still sour sweet fruity.  Chalky wet mouthfeel.  Spaced out feeling.

10th has a sweet tropical fruity oily slippery full oily taste spaced out relaxing too.

11th is is an overnight mug steeping of spent leaves… it has an orange sweet citrus blossoms juicy sweet taste.  Viscus juicy orange.  Spacy feeling. Has the taste and feel of something Western Xishuangbanna … or maybe Lincang… yummy and Spacy.

I sampled this one blind but it turns out it is a Lincang, Da Xue Shan! This 2020 Meng Shan Geng Kan goes for $86.20 for 357g cake or $0.24/g

Peace

2005 Yang Qing Hao “Old Tree” Limited

 I only had a small sample of this 7 tong production when I tried this back in 2021.  But for the sake of anyone interested here is the link to the notes….

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2005 Yang Qing Hao Yiwu Cha Wang (Houde Stored)

 

This 2005 Yang Qing Hao Cha Wang sample is not from Yang’s storage it’s been dry stored by Houde in Huston for a few decades-ish.  I sampled it a few years ago here on the blog here but thought to retaste as I go through the Yang Qing Hao experience here…

Dry leaves have a sweet faint woody almost purfume spice.

Rinsed leaves have a purfume strawberries and almost resin odour.

First infusion has a woody sweet resin taste. With a faint spice finish.  Long sweet raisin and resin… ha. Dried grit raisin with calm and chest beats slowness. Peaceful mind release.

Second infusion has a perfume spice strawberries mild sweet taste. Sort of strawberry jam with cooling throat. Sweet slight raisins and slight resin. Slight tight feeling in the mouth and throat calming peaceful bliss moderate Qi feeling.  

Third infusion has a strawberries mild woody resin taste creamy spice the flavour is a bit lighter and less dense than many other Yang Qing Hao.  Bubbling light chest and slower heart beats with blissed out peaceful feeling. Cooled down has a bit more mild sweetness melon, cherry, strawberry with spice and perfume resin.  Bubbling light chest and slower heart beats beats.  Faint candy return.

Fourth is left to cool with a chalky gritty creamy talc.  Strawberry mild creamy almost candy finish.  Happy bliss vibes.  Mild chest feeling.  Smooth enjoyable Yiwu that is maybe a bit lacking in bodyfeeling but others wise a nice solid Yiwu experience.

Fifth has a chalky sweet talc sandy woody taste.  Mild purfume.  Chill peaceful relaxing vibes.  Woody spice purfume base mild taste with a soft barley drying sandy mouthfeel.

Sixth infusion has a watery mild sweet strawberry talc.  Soft sandy mouthfeel with some slow chest beats.  Slight dry feeling in the mouth.  Chill vibes. Watery sweet finish.

Seventh has a woody spice talc mild flavour with a watery mild sweetness in the finish. Sandy dry mouthfeel.

8th is a long mug steeping and is oily light very high notes light fluffy almost candy sweetness.  Light crisp high notes pop still.  Candy long fade outs.  

Overall a nice solid Yiwu very easy to drink and no fuss feel good puerh but doesn’t dazzle and dazzle like most Yang Qing Hao with more a moderate and less complex Qi sensations as we have been used to being rather spoiled by other Yang Qing Hao productions.  However, their is a steady feeling of blissful happiness that carries me throughout this day on the Qi…. 

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2005 Yang Qing Hao Ting Chi Pin

This 2005 Yang Qing Hao Ting Qi Pin goes for $520.00 for 500 g cake or $1.04/g.  It’s also referred to as 2005 Yang Qing Hao Dingjipin…

Dry leaves have a creamy sweet odour pure odour with a faint wood.

Rinsed leaves have a creamy sweet layered high notes almost cherry strawberries.

First infusion has a watery soft creamy taste that turns into sweetness.  Soft gentle energy with a chest swelling feeling.  Wet mouthfeeling. Somehow reminds me of Wangong.chest opening calm perspective.

Second infusion has a soft chalky watery almost strawberries taste.  There is a bit more sweetness in the return of light sweet strawberries.  Very gentle in taste with a prominent watery/wet mouthfeeling. Some swelling chest feeling. Calm. Perspective feeling a touch out of body feeling.  Soft calming with chest swelling.  Cooled down it has a watery almost faint mushroom and more soft taste creamy with a mild sweetness that develops in the return. Sticky mouthfeel.

Third infusion has a watery creamy wet taste almost a light melon taste that is hard to grasp with slight background mushroom the sweet taste comes out in the return. Very subtle and gentle. Some chest swelling.  Maybe the lightest and most subtle of all Yang Qing Hao.

4th has a watery almost melon sweet taste there is some faint mushroom background that might be more Yang storage notes than coming from the material I’m not sure.  It’s so clear in taste that it’s noticeable.  Cooled down it has a creamy chalky sandy melon taste with a fine sandy mouthfeel subtle cool mouth.  Swelling chest feeling.  A gentle relaxing feeling not that more perspective altering if the first few infusions. 

5th infusion has a mild sandy creamy sort of taste with subtle mushroom spice and melon sweet returning.  Wet mouthfeeling with a sticky sandiness slight dry roof of mouth.  Swelling chest feeling and calming feeling.

6th has a watery creamy sort of mushroom onset.  Swelling chest wet mouth with a dry roof of mouth.  Swelling chest expanding feeling.melon is very faint in the return.  Sticky almost drying feeling.  Peaceful calm.

7th has a watery mild flavour of creamy melon swelling chest feeling calm kind feeling.  Cooled down is a clear watery subtle melon sweet taste.  Swelling chest feeling.

8th infusion is left to cool and is a creamy sweet melon mild tasting with some breath coolness and calm feeling stick roof of mouth is always very mild but noted.  Chest swelling.

9th has a watery onset with background tastes a returning sweet mild melon is there as well. Chest swelling.  This puerh is very consistent infusion to infusion with more of a purity of a single area rather than a wider blend like most other Yang Qing Hao it’s also very subtle and gentle for an earlier Yang Qing Hao.

10th is becoming very watery still some Qi in there but is starting to fade….

11th is us a long steeping of spent leaves and is a creamy cherry sweet taste.  Smooth oily mouthfeeling with nice oily sweet fruity tastes.  Oily very sweet fruity stays in mouth lingering sweet taste.  Happy floating feeling.

I put it into a days long mug steeping and it is fruity oily smooth with a fruity cherries and strawberries taste.  Nice clean sweet and very easy to drink.  I like this for what it is… easy pure gentle Yang Qing Hao.

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2005 Yang Qing Hao Yuan Shih Sen Ling Huang Shan Cha (aka Long Name)

In the West this 2005 Yang Qing Hao Yuan Shih Sen Ling Huang Shan Cha ($610.00 for 500g cake or $1.22/g) is also affectionately referred to as 2005 Yang Qing Hao “Long Name” I’m going to say that Shah8 started this as far as I know.

Dry leaves have a deeper herby sweet odour.

Rinsed leaves have a sweet cinnamon herby woody odour.

First infusion is a sweet watery almost candy with a more present woody.  Slight tongue tingling feeling with an empty mouth feel.  Deep throat opening and stimulating with lingering candy watery sweetness longing deep in the pure tasting cool throat opening.  Deep mind pausing peacefulness takes hold with levitating body and subtle tinging skin.

Second is a creamy cooling chalky candy.  Soft in the mouth with very deep sweet throat opening. Body pausing with floating and tingling distinct body feeling.  Cooled down it is creamy sweet candy cooling deep throat.

Third infusion has a woody menthol turns into a cooling very herby almost medicinal tasting with a woodsy talc taste.  Big qi pauses the mind tingles the skin and levitates the body. If feel happy and did ate with a happy talkative bubbling underneath.

Fouth infusion has a woodsy herby talc onset with a sweet background underbelly.  Slight sandy mouthfeeling with sticky lips and edges.  Big heart beats and mind floating. Big qi and complex with mind pausing body tingling.  Shoulders floating up. Blissed mind.  Medicinal camphor woody.

5th is a sweet woody herby camphor medicinal talc.  Herbs and medicinal plants make this one unique.  There is a deep throat opening but also a silty mouthfeel sticky lips and roof of mouth and fine sandy feeling.  Big qi chest feeling like diaphragm is rising up through the Heart feeling. Very unique body feel with skin tingling big deep energy boost revival.

6th bitter medicinal woods onset with herby woody taste slight sticky mouth with deep throat cooling .  Big qi makes me almost overwhelmed and a bit jumpy with a deep diaphragm moving up feeling limbs tingling.  

7th has a talc medicinal woody taste big Qi hits hard complex and deeply.  Cooled down more watery candy sweet taste.  Lingering candy in deep throat with soft silty mouth feeling.  Big diaphragm upwards movement with big rising up energy movements. Levitating, tingling, almost jittering.  

8th is left to cool and is a woody talc herby medicinal. Big upward movement of qi silty louthfeeling with underlying sweet candy big chest and shoulders upwards! Candy talc finish in deep throat and in the chalky mouthfeeling.

9th has a talc bitter woods with a herby with slight mouth lips sticky but not drying.  Deep throat opening.  Cooling medical camphor.  

The long mug steeping of spent leaves has a deep incense spice mushroom woody salty savory depth.  Lots of ingesting death in here.  Silty mouthfeel.  Smoky incense deep dark taste.  Chest uprising diaphragm and elevated feelings.  Mood up!

I put it into another days long mug infusion and it is sweet savory slightly minty deeper woods and dirts. 

Due to the stronger medical and herbal woody taste this is a puerh lovers puer not for the sweet at heart… it also makes it a bit of a unique production of Yang Qing Hao in its taste profile.  Yes it has sweetness but more of in just the first few infusions before it goes background.  Why am I evening talking about the taste… its mouthfeel is pretty complex with lots of deep throat and silty chalky sandy sticky feelings to balance out the deep throat but if you are going for this puerh it really is about the complex bodyfeeling… doesn’t get much better than this…

I should pick a cake of this up sometime soon although I missed the window for getting this one at any sort of deal.

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2004 Yang Qing Hao Jinhao Chawang

 This one also sold out a few years ago and was a bit cheaper than the others and is an outlier production of Yang Qing Haos 2004 line…

Dry leaves have a sweet cardboard odour to them.

Rinsed leaves have a sort of floral and roasted nut odour.

First infusion has a watery sort of nutty sweet taste with slightly sandy mouthfeel and hard to grasp almost nutty floral sweetness.

Second has a light watery woody slight sour floral taste with a creamy sweet finish.  Very light and spacious flavours.  Cooled down it finishes more melon fruity and dry wood.  Wet mouthfeel with fine sand on tongue.  Warm energy in the face.

Third infusion has a watery sour fruity taste.  That fruity taste is quite clear and oily pear.  Oily mouthfeel.  Spaced out flavour nuances.  Creamy pear and peach notes.  Creamy sweet finish. Mild peaceful feeling.

Fourth infusion has a peach and pear clear oily taste.  Long creamy sweet aftertaste some sugars and peach and pear with some cooling and mouthwatering.  Simple pure clear and delicious flavours.  Some arm tingling.

5th is left to cool and has a peachy pear oily pure taste.  Oily mouthfeeling compliments the pure fruit flavours nicely.  Some soft faint sand on the tongue.  Long sweet bready creamy fruity almost fruitbread aftertaste. Slight warming spacy energy.  Some sensations in forearms.

6th is left to cool and has a fruity pear and peach oily taste.  Pure clear enjoyable flavours.  A bit relaxing Qi.  Slight bready sweet aftertaste. Oily mouthfeel.

7th has a woody almost pungent oily sweet fruit pear and peach.  Spacy relaxing.  Slight fine sand on tongue some faint bodyfeel in arms.

8th has a woody almost pungent sweet taste slight oily and fine sand tongue.Relaxing.

9th is left to cool and is woidy with some peachy pear oily sweet taste.

I put the rest into a long mug steeping… it comes out sweet and a bit floral not really any heavier Yang Qing Hao storage tastes.   There is some pungency and some root beers. Swelling chest feeling.

Overall, this less expensive 2004 has done quite well with age there is a reason it’s sold out for the lower price it sold for.  I enjoy it for what it is and it seemed to improved with a bit of age.

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