2025 Tea Encounter Guafengzhai Chaping

This 2025 Tea Encounter Guafengzhai Chaping ($230.00 for 200g or $1.15/g) is the most honest straightforward GuaFengZhi character of the three Guafengzhai I sampled from Tea Encounter and it’s a really good one…. I value the classic character of this one quite a bit… which usually would elevate a classic and delicious GuaFengZhi to a favourite of mine but I was in a different mood this year….

Dry leaves have that delicious very sweet fruity cloying pungent savory odour that makes your mouthwater.

Rinsed leaves have a very sweet pungent fruity almost potato and wildflowers odour.

First infusion has a watery pure clear sugar cooling pungent onset with some cereals taste and evolves into a sugary floral taste with a wet mild chalky feeling in the mouth with saliva producing and deep throat cooling and sweetness lingering there.  A strong euphoria and body floating and limbs tingling bodyfeel.

Second infusion has a full chalky mouthfeel with evolving strong sweetnesses long chalky fruity pungent potato sweet taste nuances and depth- initial sweetness, sweet return, deep throat sweetness and breath lingering sweetness! It’s got it!  Mouthwatering mouthfeel deep throat opens with sweet fruity lingering there is a cereals/ potato taste as well but a strong dominant elbowing sweet taste.  Spacey euphoria high is strong with floating and tingling limbs also strong… 

Third infusion has a sweet sugar creamy fruity taste with long sweet finish. Chalky full mouthfeel with face sweating arms tingling and floating feeling with euphoria high with is pretty strong.

Fourth infusion has cereals and potato under notes with flushing face chest release and tingling arms happy rush of euphoria. 

5th has a very sweet creamy candy pungent evolving sweet taste in thicker chalky mouthfeel deep sweet lingering on breath. Euphoria highs and light flaring body. 

6th fruity thick juicy initial taste with a cereal.  Cooled down it is very sweet creamy fruity pungent dense sweet taste with cooleimg sweet breath and deeper throat.  Yummy. Euphoria. Chest and face floating and flushed. Bigger qi feelings.

7th is left to cool and is a watery sweet fruity chalky full chalky evolving into a creamy sweet with oily juicy onset creamy chalky mid sweet with full chalky mouth deep cooling throat with lingering sweet breath aftertaste and cereal distant tastes. Big chest rising and face flush wirh euphoric feeling.

8th is sweet fruity juicy creamy sweet taste full dense sweet taste. Cereal base long breath sweetness still euphoric feeling but less flaring.

9th is left to cool and is woody sweet water with cooling pungent breath and fruity creamy sugar finish dense tastes and euphoria qi. Big chest rising up feeling euphoria highs. Soft chalky full feeling in mouth.

10th is a long overnight mug steeping… it is a very sweet sugar chalky sweet taste with melon pops and long mild bitterness throughout.  Big chest opening and bitter sweet chalky taste lingering on the tongue and breath.  

Out of the three 2025 Tea Encounter Guafengzhai offerings this one has the most classic Guafengzhai taste to it…. I like Chaping very much for this reason… I’ve purchased cakes of this one in the past from Tea Encounter in the past for exactly this reason! But this year I find the other two GuaFengZhi just a bit more interesting especially in their Qi!

Peace