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

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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…. 

Peace

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.

Peace

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.

Peace

  

Comparing the Big 2004s: 2004 Yang Qing Hao Tejipin

 

I believe this 2004 Yang Qing Hao Teji Pin sample was taken out of Yang Qing Hao’s storage the year it sold out in 2021. I sampled this a long with a sample that had three years of North American storage at that time in a post here.  I will retaste today simply to see how it’s (poorly) aging in my too cold/dry storage but mainly to compare to the other top favourites the 2004 Yang Qing Hao Dingji YehSheng and the 2004 YangQing Hao Zhencang (also sold out in 2021) with some discussion to follow on preferences/ favourites/ strengths and weaknesses…

Dry leaves have a slight sweet bready odour.

The rinsed leaves have an icing sugar sweet odour.

First infusion has a clear pure woody watery onset that returns as this pure icing sugar sweet taste.  Long icing sugar sweet aftertaste.  Tinging body and face with deep focus. 

Second infusion is a sweet icing sugar pure elegant sweetness.  Long icing sugar sweet taste watery with no much Yang Storage nuances yet but subtle.  Long sweet almost candy but mainly icing sugar sweetness pops and has a long lingering aftertaste of sweet taste.  Big Qi feeling of head floating and flushing chest sensations and hands numb.

Third infusion has a hay and icing sugar onset with a long sweet icing sugar pure finish.  The mouthfeel is mossy and doesn’t interfere with the pure sugary ethereal taste and feel.  Qi is big with a floating head and face and hand tingling. Spacy relaxing warm brow.

Fourth is a woody onset with a sweet icing sugar that emerges ebbs and flows into the aftertaste.  The mouthfeel is slight sticky dry here.  Some wet mouthwatering.Qi has a big focused floating head feeling.  Relaxed focus. Open chest numb face and hands.

5th is left to cool and is a bit melon sweet with woody pure clear taste.  Slight dry sticky mouthfeel.  Face Qi feelings. Stronger focused relaxation.

6th is also left to cool and gives off icing sugar sweetness there are some bready sweetness.  Lots of sweet sugar and sweet bread.  Long sweet finish.  Relaxing focusing.  Face flushed and head floating feeling. 

7th has an almost sour sort of fruity sweetness , sour white grapes taste, with faint woody background a slight dry mouth.  Creamy Sweetness on the dry tongue. Very relaxed and mind slowing. I was feeling productive under the qi influence at the beginning but now I’m a bit lethargic from it hours later.

8th has a sour woody taste that is not as sweet with a silty mouthfeel.  Woody sour taste with not much sweetness.  Mild silty dry mouthfeel.  Very relaxing lazy Qi.

9th is a long mug steeping… it has a woody slight dirt slight root beer taste… There is an almost red wine dirt taste.…  mainly a woody dirt taste. There is a creamy sweetness under the wood.  Dry throat and mouthfeeling.  Dry dirt taste is not super tasty but the Qi is still quite nice with more chest feeling and sensations.  Some tingling hands and elbows less floating feeling now. The mouthfeel is quite dry here.

After drinking the big 3 Yang Qing Hao in three consecutive days these are some of my conclusions…

Qi…. All are really good… First of all, I really liked the Qi of this Tieji.  I liked it three years ago and like it now.  To me the Qi of Teji Pin is of higher quality and just makes me feel better than the other two.  I sampled all at work and had this happy focused vibe with some enjoyable body feelings with the Teiji pin.  The Zhencang made me feel more stoned and had a more simple bodyfeel out of the three but still strong and foating happy stoned feeling still of good quality and complex but more narrow and pointed.  The Dingji YeSheng has a very complex Qi sensation that does a lot all at once and is simultaneously excitatory and deeply relaxing and a whole lot of other things- there is lots happening with it and I like the wild ride quit a bit but at work it was a bit much and left me feeling pretty stoned that day.

The taste of the Zhencang is the best out of the three offering excellent resin Yiwu tastes at its finest and the processing of this cake seems to have given it an edge over the others. Dingji has some harsher or rougher elements of bitter astringency that can sometimes emerge from the blend that the others don’t have.  To me this is a benefit and part of the dynamic nature of this one.

The storage taste/ processing and weaker stamina of the Teiji Pin weakens my enjoyment of it a bit this is the most elegantly sweet icing sugars tasting of the bunch but the stronger storage does not do it well and it eventually much more quickly than the others descends into that Yang Storage base taste of as I describe it above as “woody slight dirt taste”.  However, as I said three years ago, I’m convinced I would have caked it regardless for its 400$ price tag.

Peace

2004 Yang Qing Hao Ding Ji Yeh Sheng: Big Complex Qi

I purchased this 2004 Yang Qing Hao Dingji Yesheng ($615 per cake or $1.23/g) cake straight out of Yang’s Storage in January 2024($525.00 for 500g cake). These notes are from that cake. I have purchased a few of these cakes in the last few years.  I appreciate the complexity and variety session to session due tothe blend and the strong Qi is always consistent session to session.  Not as elegant as other 2004s Yang Qing Haos but I prefer the complexity and variety of this blend and mainly the strong deep and powerful Qi…

 Dry leaves smell of a very sweet creamy woody sweetness.

Rinsed leaves have a very creamy very sweet odour to them.

First infusion has a creamy vibrant sweetness to them.  Smooth creamy and sweet.  Slight woody and cooling with a silty slight tight

mouthfeel.

Second infusion has a creamy sweet onset with a spacy Qi.  Creamy slight vegital woody but mainly creamy sweet watery taste. Slight warming Qi development. Big complex qi with heart beats and energy but relaxing euphoria.

Third infusion is left to cool and is a smooth creamy sweet woody creamy onset with wet mouth and a slight dry mouthfeel underneath with some mild a salivation.  Long almost candy creamy sweet aftertaste.  Big qi deep energetic and relaxing euphoria with big chest beats.

Fourth is a smooth creamy sweet slight woody sweet taste. Some kouthwsterinf long creamy sweet almost candy.  Overall soft smooth and almost muted.  Complex big qi feeling.

Fifth has a creamy sweet creamy woody smooth soft taste.  There is some creamy smooth almost candy aftertaste.  Big complex Qi slight dry mouthfeel under a wet coat.

Sixth infusion has a watery juicy creamy sweet pop of almost fresh fruit flavour with creamy candy finish. Strong spacy qi makes me giddy.  Woody creamy almost Smokey but very creamy sweet throughout with some fresh fruits trying to push through the creamy sweet. Warm brow and heat heart, spacy euphoric.  

I come back to the leaves at the end of the day.

Seventh is a creamy sweet bready sweet taste.  Soft and smooth but with a cottony full mouthfeel a sticky silty feel is left behind.  Some salivating pop of candy sweet almost fresh fruity sweet taste. Spacey euphoria with energetic chest beats and leaving body spacy.  Limbs and face light and numb with face warmth. Lingering cinnamon note minutes later.  Lots of layers of sweet tastes, mouthfeels, and Qi sensations experts a complex feeling overall.

The eighth infusion has a fruity almost fresh sour fruit. Creamy sweet more candy in the finish.  Long creamy candy finish.  Cotton mouth with creamy.

The ninth infusion is a very sweet creamy custard with icing sugar and some faint fresh fruits.  There is a bit more gripping dry woody almost bitterness now.  Dry woody candy finish.  Stronger Qi feeling in the head now with strong chest beats and spacy fuzzy head.

The tenth infusion is left to cool and is a sweet fruity fresh pear with a creamy sweet woody talc finish.  Creamy sweet almost candy finish.  Less salivating now and slight dry mouthfeel. Strong spacy feeling.

11th infusion has a sweet woody fruity taste.  It’s getting more woody a bit cereal and less sweet layers.  Almost a dry woody bitterness.  Spacy strong Qi sensation.  

12th is a long mug steeping and it gives off a thick oily sweetness there is a thick fruity taste but also faint smoke, very faint bitterness.  Thick almost leathery but lots of sweetness.  Strong flavour and depth when pushed harder here.  Lots of stamina left in these leaves.  Big Qi feeling… very spaced out today!

I put it into an overnight steeping of spent leaves it comes out slight woody sweet vegital then transforms into a woody sweet mint coco sort of reminds me of those Jr. Mints chocolate candies. Very yummy.  Lots of fresh minty woody coco fresh fruity silty mud mouthfeel. Sweet pops of flavour oily thick feeling in the mouth.  

Although it has always been a top Yang Qing Hao production the price has always remained high so it has not sold out like some of the others that were priced lower.  I still like this one a lot!

Peace

Best 2004?: 2004 Yang Qing Hao Zhencang Chawang

Ok the Yang Qing Hao Re-Experiencing project is back online here…it’s next in the cue pending a few surprise samples I’m receiving in the mail.  But you want it and I’m committing to it…. This tea is definitely the last time I feel like I got a complete steal of a bargain … so that was like 4 years ago… ha!

I picked up a bunch of these cakes in early 2021 when Yang was clearing out the last of his cakes and offered them at a special clearance price because some in the tongs had damaged wrappers but none of mine were even damaged.  This 2004 Yang Qing Hao Zhencang 400g cake unbelievably sold for $250.00 for 400g or $0.63/g.  I like them so much I grabbed a few more from Liquid Proust who bought up the last tongs and immediately turned them around for $325.00 for 400g or $0.81/g he too sold out fast.  It should be noted that there is also a 500g version of this same material.

A lot of the older reviewers seemed to place the 2004 Yang Qing Hao Dingji Yesheng and the 2004 Teiji ahead of this cake but age has treated this one very well and it might be the favourite cake I own…

Dry leaves smell of creamy sweetness.

First infusion is vibrant honey floral fresh fruity clearer taste than Dingji YehSheng.  Sweet fruity honey clear taste. Mouthwatering and vibrant.  Slight rubbery soft mouthfeel. Slow heat beats and face numb with happy feelings.

Second infusion has a vibrant resin honey taste.  There is an overarching sweet taste that becomes creamy in the aftertaste.  There is a pure long creamy honey slight woody aftertaste with cool breath.  Nice resinous woody balances the sweet.  Doesn’t have the typical washed out Yang feel is a bit clearer and purer.  Happy Euphoria feeling with face and shoulders tingling. Long honey creamy taste.  Slight sticky rubbery mouthfeeling.

Third infusion has a vibrantly sweet onset with a mouthwatering effect.  The sweetness is a pure honey almost fruity and almost purfume floral.  There is a resin base to it.  Silty mouthfeeling.  Really nice honey layers and resin base with spacy happy feeling. Slow chest beats and happy floating feeling.  Long honey resin finish that fades out.  Face and should numbness and lightness.

Fourth infusion has a creamy sweet pop of flavour with a resin woody mid and honey creamy sweet finish.  The mouthfeel is a bit drying.  Creamy chalky sweet taste left on a slightly pasty dry tongue.  Happy space feeling.

5th infusion has a sweet creamy resin woody pure honey taste.   Mouthwatering chalky sweet taste with honey fade out in the mouth.  Silty chalky mouth coating.  Spacy happy vibes. Light floating bodyfeeling.

6th has a woody resin sweet creamy taste with honey sweet finish that fades out with resin dry woody.  Slight dry silty mouthfeel.  

7th has a sweet woody resin with a sweet fade out finish.  Silty slight mouthwatering.  Happy floating feeling.

8th has a pop of coco bittersweet honey that fades quickly into a woody resin onset with less sweetness now- there is some and it lingers as a honey sweet in the background. Honey sweet fade out.  Happy floating feeling. 

9th has a honey sweet resin onset with pop of initial sweetness almost bitter pure and vibrant still.  Silty faintly dry mouthfeel.  Happy floating qi.

10th has a honey woody clear taste initially with a creamy chalky return.  Clear pure tastes with a silty mouthfeel.

11th is a long mug steeping and has a woody resin slight bitter honey taste. Slight dry mouthfeel with some cooling throat.  Big slow heart beats with floating bodyfeeling and spacy happy high feeling.  Some faint candy under the dry woody aftertaste. 

…. So good had a session yesterday and it makes me feel so so good every time…. Maybe it’s the best puerh produced in 2004!

Peace

2004 Yang Qing Hao Jin Cha vs Tuo Cha!

 Okay… back to the Yang Qing Hao re-experiencing posts…

This 2004 Yang Qing Hao Jin Cha goes for $200 for 300g Jincha or $0.66/g.  Dry leaves smell sweeter than other 2004 due to tight Jincha compression.

First infusion is a watery meaty smoked beef jerky taste.  Mesquite BBQ but mainly watery a bit creamy sweet… this flash infusion is still too compressed but the meaty mesquite supersized me none the less.

Second infusion cooled down is a creamy oily slight smoke mesquite with a wet oily mouthfeel.

Third infusion has a watery creamy sweet taste with much much less mesquite which is so faint now. The aftertaste is an icing sugar but faint almost minty herby.  Wet/ oily mouthfeel.  Some chest and collarbone heaviness with mild qi quietude.

Fourth left to cool is a creamy sweet watery oily soft chalky creamy sweeet.  Subtle smoke background.

Fifth a fruity smoke pop of sweetness with mouthwatering almost melon sweetness oily taste.  Oily Smokey creamy melon finish. Mild relaxing qi.

Sixth infusion is left to cool and has a creamy sweet oily smooth taste.  Slight faint melon and creamy very slight smoke. Creamy sweet and smooth.  Soft chalky wet slight oily feeling. Peaceful Qi.

Seventh has a melon creamy sweet watery taste faint rubbery vegital some faint mesquite.  Mouthfeel is slightly dry.  Mild relaxing qi mild qi in face and forearms. Heavy collarbones feeling. 

Eighth has a melon dry bark slight smoke slight dry mouthfeel.  It’s lots it’s oily and soft feel and has a drier almost bitter feel.almost bitter coco bland taste as well. Rubbery sweet finish.

Ninth rubbery dry woody with throat grip.  Rubbery squeeky gums.  Dry vegetal rubbery bland taste that isn’t very seeet but some mouth cooling. 

10th has a woody almost sweet under the squeaky gripping dry mouth and throat.  Pucker dry feeling is strong.. 

11th the next day back to the leaves … its back to a creamy almost fruity watery taste.  Creamy watery aftertaste with soft silty almost dry mouthfeel.

12th has a fruity almost minty onset with woody dry base and some pops of fruity fresh melon sweetness. Mild tastes of sweet creamy finish.   Mild relax peace.

13th left yo cool is a more distinct creamy sweet.  It still has a pop and some vibrancy with an almost fruity pure clean creamy sweet taste.  Mouthwatering effect still. Mild relaxing. Some mild face tingling.

14th is left to cool and has a mild sweet melon slight sour pop with a vegital taste.  Mild relaxing qi.

15th is a long mug steeping… has a dirt bitter bland woody taste with dry mouthfeel.  Mild spacy relax.  The Yang storage notes are just starting to feel strong here from the very tight Jincha compression. 

Hours later it has a woody dirt syrupy sweetness and an oily mouthfeel with squeaky feeling.  There is a pucker sweet cherry fruity finish in the mouth.  Reminds me of choke cherries.  Too yummy so I drink it up and do another long mug infusion …. Still getting through the tight Jincha compression…

17th is overnight and is a woody sweet faint dirt oily taste.  Oily feeling one day later. Almost coco taste.  Syrupy sweet woody.

Vs 

2004 Yang Qing Hao Tuo Cha goes for $200.00 for 300g Toucha or $0.66/g.

Dry leaves are a creamy bready sweetness.  Not as compressed as the Jin cha sample I got and smells more bready slight less leaves in the pot and more crushed up is the sample I have.

The rinsed leaves have a sweet almost tobbaco leaf pungent sweet quality.

First infusion has a creamy watery sweetness.

Second is left to cool and is a creamy woody slight bland bitter sweetness over a watery mouthfeel with slight dry squeaky feeling.  Some Heart beats heavy feeling in chest.  Almost cherry taste ghostly minutes later.

Third infusion has a watery woody dry sweet straw and almost fruity creamy not that sweet taste. Some creamy almost pungent sweet very faintly returns.  Any smoke or mesquite at all in this sample compared to JinCha. Spacy almost mild sleepy qi.

Fourth infusion had a watery woody creamy sweet slight quick moving pungent creamy sweet return with melon fresh fruity finish.  Slight dry mouthfeeling with sqeeky gums.  Spacy lazy qi.  Wu is more sleepy and stronger and slightly warmer than Jincha.  Long lingering muted fruity taste.

Fifth infusion is a woody creamy dry sweet taste.  Some straw cereal sweet taste returns. Cooled down is a woody dry mouthfeeling with a fruity sweet slight dry bitter finish.  Dry mouth with squeaky. 

Sixth infusion has a woody creamy dry mouthfeel with slight creamy sweet but mainly dry bitter bland finish.  Dry chocking throat feeling.

Seventh infusion I get back to the leaves the next day.. and it’s a smooth woody sweet almost smooth rich woody.

Eighth is left to cool and is a watery woody almost nutty almond sweet taste.

9th is a woody dry slight creamy almost dry root beer vegital taste.  Is a bit bitter and bland and dry not much sweet in these flash infusions.

10th has a woody dry sweet dry wood taste.  Some sort of vegital dry taste.

I mug steep out these spent leaves for a long infusion and it has a woody dirt sort of oily sweet taste with a vegital bland taste.

Then I overnight steep it and it is a woody minty slight root beer.  Smooth slight oily taste.  Not bitter but a bit oily and savoury salty.

Overall, the two have more differences than I thought!  The Tuo Cha which was much less compressed, leafed lighter in the pot, and was more broken up was much better in taste and surprisingly in Qi as well.  The Jincha has the mesquite flavour and rubbery, vegital, and bitter tastes which intermingle with sweet tastes but it doesn’t come off as too tasty to me.  The Jincha has a mild relaxing feel.  The Toucha has a spacy and sleepy better quality qi and feels warmer in nature.  At 20 years old the Jincha still needs some aging out but even then…. Not bad at all … Not sure if it’s worth it.

Out of all the Yang Qing Hao productions I have tried so far these two were some of my least favourites.  The mild Qi with light sometimes a bit akward favours put these lower on the list for me.

Peace