tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16931763313815549572024-03-18T20:09:24.312-07:00MattCha's Bloga blog that is authored by Matt but is yours and the tea's as much as it is hisMatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02736984697520031171noreply@blogger.comBlogger1110125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693176331381554957.post-37666178273405855722024-03-10T00:01:00.003-08:002024-03-10T00:21:54.788-08:002011 Jin Dayi: Top Modern Dayi!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU8QuDuxFilP4rhbLr5_JfcVyMa7F_Zy_sCh3anWHuvn7K1DJUKi2c8X8lG6qUscllU5HmYg0rIwc2AxANRlK4r537cMalXA6a4gstJNd9HrJdYvY7RNd63YdV4WLyt7Da-IrFcPpQum8vzk1-Lv6C9Bi97Gt4EGEbMhoV_EcjjCqVUcrQkPnpOURNvG4/s4032/IMG_6360.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU8QuDuxFilP4rhbLr5_JfcVyMa7F_Zy_sCh3anWHuvn7K1DJUKi2c8X8lG6qUscllU5HmYg0rIwc2AxANRlK4r537cMalXA6a4gstJNd9HrJdYvY7RNd63YdV4WLyt7Da-IrFcPpQum8vzk1-Lv6C9Bi97Gt4EGEbMhoV_EcjjCqVUcrQkPnpOURNvG4/s320/IMG_6360.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>This is the second part (<a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2024/03/2017-jin-dayi.html?m=1">first part was the 2017</a>) of the <a href="https://www.liquidproust.com/listing/988678774/20172011-dayi-jin-raw-puerh-sampler">2017/2011 Jin Dayi comparison sample set from Liquid Proust that goes for approx $57.00</a>…. This 2011 Jin (Gold) Dayi is quite famous and expensive but it really blew my mind. They still have a few of these sets left and I recommend it to try this one…</p><p> Dry leaves are a faint plum smoke hay.</p><p>Rinsed leaf has a subtle smoke and tobacco and faint banana odour.</p><p>First infusion is smooth oily lubricating mouthwatering feeling with a subtle smoke and creamy custard banana nuance. Creamy oily mouthfeel. Taste stays in the saliva. Spacy relaxing Qi can feel it low in the abdomen.</p><p>Second has a sweet creamy oily caramel toffee taste with a very nice oily creamy texture. Some woody and smoke in the background and long sweet returning minutes later there are candy pops of taste. Long sweetness that evolves from caramel to icing sugar to plum to banana to candy long inbedded into saliva with mouthwatering deliciousness. Nice lower abdomen and mid abdominal mild warming with spacy qi feeling.</p><p>Third infusion has a very sweet caramel oily full sweetness with resin woody slight background smoke and long evolving sweet taste with lots of oily salivating and nice mouthwatering. Peaceful calm Qi distills the mind. Low abdominal feeling with face and jaw light and some cjhezt beats and spacy feeling. Candy finish minutes later trapped within the saliva. Its got the whole package here! Cooled down it has a resin woody creamy fresh pungent creamy oily sweet taste. Long evolving sweet taste and long candy finish in chalky full mouthfeel.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTcd6UFa8qa3of4nG3P2y_7kHbXwVHeojm1jfi8jWTu2s9ZZR341Q7hWf5AwuGJDwCJErNlx-fXIN14QyMvKTWVSkdzXXRQVrmeOSfW2rAWrgaB0VCFjvFwGXxtG3k5z9O5vKyGNymHbW7NMvSyuZHXVm-W2aMStmH9Q73upezKnLXyJTuaoN26P8GUJo/s4032/IMG_6361.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTcd6UFa8qa3of4nG3P2y_7kHbXwVHeojm1jfi8jWTu2s9ZZR341Q7hWf5AwuGJDwCJErNlx-fXIN14QyMvKTWVSkdzXXRQVrmeOSfW2rAWrgaB0VCFjvFwGXxtG3k5z9O5vKyGNymHbW7NMvSyuZHXVm-W2aMStmH9Q73upezKnLXyJTuaoN26P8GUJo/s320/IMG_6361.jpeg" width="240" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>Fourth has a creamy woody oily onset with resin woody taste and some faint pungent faint almost camphor taste. Oily texture and mouthfeel is a bit less here but still full faint candy on the breath minutes later. Chest abdominal feeling with light face and jaw and calm peace still feeling but also energetic with heart beats.</p><p>Fifth infusion is left to cool it is quite resinous and sweet woody incense. Long sweet taste the mouthfeel and texture is fading infusion-to-infusion now. Still nice sweet taste and faint candy minutes later. Abdominal Qi face and jaw light. Peaceful pause.</p><p>Sixth infusion is left to cool and gives off a caramel resin sweet woody incense onset some fresher fruits taste with nice peaceful qi. Less long sweetness now. Abdominal feelings with light face and jaw.</p><p>Seventh infusion has a resin woody onset with some more distant sweetness chalky silty mouthfeeling with some stimulating feeling at the back of the tongue and throat. Nice peaceful Qi with some chest beats both energizing and peaceful. Face and abdomen sensations. Not much returning sweet but done creamy silty oily sweetness with resin taste in the finish.</p><p>Eighth is woody resin with a sandy mouthfeeling back of tongue and throat gentle stimulation. Not much sweet taste left but more resin woody. Nice peaceful Qi feeling. Watery sensation smokey background.</p><p>9th is a long mug infusion and is resinous woody with a creamy sweet and silty oily texture. Strong heart beats. Slight bitter with full gripping mouth but still oily with salivating.</p><p>The overnight infusion of spent leaves gives off a creamy oily candy sweet taste with lots of salivating and mouthwatering. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR1fAAQqtOfh-ks_CihCnG7Yz_DDO2xmXaggxtx6vlitDaRgVZLLlt0uLsHoFBrofhS1P2LbqNKqtYHYhvtkHYqyXGBGD_WJMjvuN4yp9F0JX6jKoBLcJy1CidOxr2B_GEbsP5-mtrFDS-wH4u0EgRLeLGQKdlU_GBSFzPZSPzzFJnvD0KO6gpCuuzhMA/s4032/IMG_6362.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR1fAAQqtOfh-ks_CihCnG7Yz_DDO2xmXaggxtx6vlitDaRgVZLLlt0uLsHoFBrofhS1P2LbqNKqtYHYhvtkHYqyXGBGD_WJMjvuN4yp9F0JX6jKoBLcJy1CidOxr2B_GEbsP5-mtrFDS-wH4u0EgRLeLGQKdlU_GBSFzPZSPzzFJnvD0KO6gpCuuzhMA/s320/IMG_6362.jpeg" width="240" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>It’s got delicious aroma and long complex evolving layered taste complexity in the mouthfeel with some gripping that causes salivating and thick oily texture. Qi imparts a strong effect on the mind and in some steeps both energizing and with distilling peacefull feeling. It also has great bodyfeeling strong Heart beasts but also comforting face and abdominal sensations…</p><p>Top 5 of the modern Dayi that I have tried- excellent!!!!</p><p>Comparison: The 2017 resembles the 2011 enough to know that they are similar blends especially in their abdominal sensations bodyfeeling and lingering sweetness oily texture but will never have the greatness of the 2011- it doesn’t have the long evolving sweet layer taste, its mouthfeel is narrow with a tendency to dryness, its qi is not as complex. Still pretty enjoyable though.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7QJthE2pd38RUHydxDpYTzrXILibbR63JfBxgCXEk4iWlKAz8pUxdJ0mkXg9cflwO0wrGL2RQdSF5h8rDClX6gT82U2RgySsBY1X2yHWuUsFr_4EB-EOGWxDMe6PTyEa-qsTaf0yZAyLfiOM3gAo9AMycRvPgA8sQ5NN2PKaw0_-1qTCUKhyrBH9w-7s/s4032/IMG_6366.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7QJthE2pd38RUHydxDpYTzrXILibbR63JfBxgCXEk4iWlKAz8pUxdJ0mkXg9cflwO0wrGL2RQdSF5h8rDClX6gT82U2RgySsBY1X2yHWuUsFr_4EB-EOGWxDMe6PTyEa-qsTaf0yZAyLfiOM3gAo9AMycRvPgA8sQ5NN2PKaw0_-1qTCUKhyrBH9w-7s/s320/IMG_6366.jpeg" width="240" /></a></p><p>Top is the 2017 Jin Dayi bottom 2011 Jin Dayi.</p><p><a href="https://www.twodogteablog.com/2012/12/06/2011-jin-dayi-gold-dayi/">Paul’s (Two Dog Tea Blog) Tasting Notes</a></p><p><a href="http://half-dipper.blogspot.com/2012/11/2011-jin-dayi.html?m=1">Hobbes (The Half-Dipper) Tastimg Notes</a></p><p>Peace</p>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02736984697520031171noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693176331381554957.post-86839004595190199282024-03-09T23:21:00.003-08:002024-03-09T23:21:41.275-08:002017 “Jin Dayi”<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6PNcA_20O0LALMc1BwpVlNOUszEnR6oKzZQsaBfXClqPzXQKWXitDALg5ScjZgGWn7pYjMlTTuvsdvnrAhOlKe33nAu1V0WF37gdB-K8yOe1zINv4St2h3HmH535wzqtjKmYsqkNmanZMD-pTm4Xfv2pfMc1KRYnI5am8dG2G9Df__qYrZam3G3hT43I/s4032/IMG_6346.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6PNcA_20O0LALMc1BwpVlNOUszEnR6oKzZQsaBfXClqPzXQKWXitDALg5ScjZgGWn7pYjMlTTuvsdvnrAhOlKe33nAu1V0WF37gdB-K8yOe1zINv4St2h3HmH535wzqtjKmYsqkNmanZMD-pTm4Xfv2pfMc1KRYnI5am8dG2G9Df__qYrZam3G3hT43I/s320/IMG_6346.jpeg" width="240" /></a></p><p>This sample comes from a comparison testing sample set from Liquid Proust which goes for <a href="https://www.liquidproust.com/listing/988678774/20172011-dayi-jin-raw-puerh-sampler">approx $57.00 for the 2017/2011 Dayi Jin Sample set</a>. I sampled the quite amazing 2011 the following day in the next post.</p><p> Dry leaves have a very tobacco wet smoke tobbacco odour. </p><p>Rinsed leaf is superisingly sweet amongst strong wet dark cherry tobacco notes.</p><p>First infusion has a watery Smokey metallic mild chalky sweetness. Nice sweet returning taste almost melon that builds in the aftertaste with some salivating. Feel it in the chest. A bit of acidity left behind in the mouth.</p><p>Second infusion has smoke and tobacco with some bitterness over a dry roof mouthfeel and upper throat opening. A sweet pop that has nice return. You van feel the bitterness buildup in the stomach- haven’t tried Dayi this fresh in a long long while. Strong chest feel with beats and energy rising.</p><p>Third infusion has a woody smoke oily texture with a creamy sweet oily creamy finish. Smooth mouthfeel with lots of oily feeling and slight dry roof of mouth. Nice sweet finish fades to slight dry smoke wood.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwQCb1E-FGbWJUzDK6xW9lTTLPG9GH6rsAaq1vcwArbAEs3pWL5187TBAxtyjbbhesFYVvhuIU5xX0wJkJpVECQDl9Xoja3pbuYojEqhkNKz4vh8ov5TWh1TOI1Gii8lXfgX-kLMl98Wh7l_OTUIbkNwhVj0Kupk1JFCekimWT1ogtU-KsfjYA-StfKGk/s4032/IMG_6348.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwQCb1E-FGbWJUzDK6xW9lTTLPG9GH6rsAaq1vcwArbAEs3pWL5187TBAxtyjbbhesFYVvhuIU5xX0wJkJpVECQDl9Xoja3pbuYojEqhkNKz4vh8ov5TWh1TOI1Gii8lXfgX-kLMl98Wh7l_OTUIbkNwhVj0Kupk1JFCekimWT1ogtU-KsfjYA-StfKGk/s320/IMG_6348.jpeg" width="240" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>Fourth infusion is left to cool and gives off sweet oily taste with woody smoke finish. The sweetness sort of fades into the smoke. There is a mouth salivating with return sweetness which is almost fruity. Strong deep uplift with chesty feeling not much bitter. Fruity taste faintly lingering in saliva. Spacey feeling.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_crpCMa7gfjNXjUKmag_DJfCxSgVnLWSvrU1BvDkOiDJ5vLX2M265gEpoSk9gRPpip0DvsszeDSO2ngPeW_7W2wjJfDTYDchRzIbIvRbKl1Y_KOuiJbrNquFnDx5wZQFtlZdv_lzWPrPQTNgGEvtJHZ3xOaiyQAZmsLmM9qBFHPkDDjJ5x7j9URC5c54/s4032/IMG_6349.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_crpCMa7gfjNXjUKmag_DJfCxSgVnLWSvrU1BvDkOiDJ5vLX2M265gEpoSk9gRPpip0DvsszeDSO2ngPeW_7W2wjJfDTYDchRzIbIvRbKl1Y_KOuiJbrNquFnDx5wZQFtlZdv_lzWPrPQTNgGEvtJHZ3xOaiyQAZmsLmM9qBFHPkDDjJ5x7j9URC5c54/s320/IMG_6349.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>Fifth infusion has a fruity faint smoke oily woody taste. Tobacco leaf base. Mainly this sweet oily almost fruity that fades into a dryer tongue and roof stimulating effect. Lingering fruity in mouth. Spacy feeling</p><p>6th has some faint caramel, metalic and floral edges to it and has that oily smoke onset and fading sweetness. There is a bit of bitterness that you can feel in the stomach. Spacy qi feeling with feeling in lower abdomen.</p><p>7th is left to cool has a Smokey sweet hay almost fruity taste with tobacco leaf base. </p><p>8th has a sweet oily hay tobacco leaf with a returning almost floral sweet almost fruit taste. Thee is a chalky faint fruit returning with some mild mouthwatering. Spacy Qi. Fruity taste lingers in the saliva minutes later.</p><p>9th has a chalky talc woody slight bitter initial taste that has a cereal hay sweet taste with some mild mouth drying on roof and gums and tongue.</p><p>10th has a woody smoke ashy taste not that sweet anymore. Spacy Qi.</p><p>11th is left in the cup overnight and gives off a sweet oily slight smokey wood taste with sweet vegital woody finish. Lingering sweetness left in saliva.</p><p>Long mug steeping is a dry grippng mouthfeel with bitter wood and smoke taste.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2pbiqcGarO13XbY8tTlLo1au7CRTR3BFkBSZ6HyR-FosB1xT4QvBvQEgTUldGHnzkhLFCHXVAM7vXwwNJJ6Oar5a669qIa6P_zn3Wd5k0qXjymj_7Nlt3mr9XWSKRKN-ebXn7fwfAkuonSkIOKLE0xkm2QKl9FEwr7bQjw11tgfWpOOOAu0dQyz5Kmlo/s4032/IMG_6350.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2pbiqcGarO13XbY8tTlLo1au7CRTR3BFkBSZ6HyR-FosB1xT4QvBvQEgTUldGHnzkhLFCHXVAM7vXwwNJJ6Oar5a669qIa6P_zn3Wd5k0qXjymj_7Nlt3mr9XWSKRKN-ebXn7fwfAkuonSkIOKLE0xkm2QKl9FEwr7bQjw11tgfWpOOOAu0dQyz5Kmlo/s320/IMG_6350.jpeg" width="320" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>The overnight mug steeping of spent leaves is a sweet woody almost fruit with a bitter almost but not really milk chocolate taste. Silty mouthfeel with some chesty Qi and moderate energetic feel.</p><p>Peace</p><p> </p>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02736984697520031171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693176331381554957.post-11660931116270112342024-03-02T22:24:00.004-08:002024-03-02T22:31:47.419-08:00Happy New Year of the Dragon!<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsciD-SBLMlg1Go1uR4etd_vU_MEv_6_RZdu__8qtsHCwDfVANFMN3kPmAGtw87peMAaHIH7RERcut2cOFv7kEWbLBnY9Y9M3WHJALvNMVMusP4fSW4mPvqEJtfA5BxyFQNSk2uN67hofmGtYGQ8SaZwhkDl32Tvne57hnmJ1uLnv5QpE8Kphyphenhyphen2iFDRLg/s4032/IMG_6250.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsciD-SBLMlg1Go1uR4etd_vU_MEv_6_RZdu__8qtsHCwDfVANFMN3kPmAGtw87peMAaHIH7RERcut2cOFv7kEWbLBnY9Y9M3WHJALvNMVMusP4fSW4mPvqEJtfA5BxyFQNSk2uN67hofmGtYGQ8SaZwhkDl32Tvne57hnmJ1uLnv5QpE8Kphyphenhyphen2iFDRLg/s320/IMG_6250.jpeg" width="320" /></a></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxCcfG7-mkBAN-kIm17s07SZ1vjf_1F8eTW3VI0a1LMnj_MAwO8HOxTymQNFRtWW7qfFAYqzM1rSeoTyei6RnY-Yw2UKQW9meXPupnXd9nDyrU1v9rAaOkdD-rOk8LDfpoFmyrOG70GH58TMJi5njwQeM_ordjoTIBceQJEtFvCMN-MhzPWVuN7LZRfwo/s4032/IMG_6199.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxCcfG7-mkBAN-kIm17s07SZ1vjf_1F8eTW3VI0a1LMnj_MAwO8HOxTymQNFRtWW7qfFAYqzM1rSeoTyei6RnY-Yw2UKQW9meXPupnXd9nDyrU1v9rAaOkdD-rOk8LDfpoFmyrOG70GH58TMJi5njwQeM_ordjoTIBceQJEtFvCMN-MhzPWVuN7LZRfwo/s320/IMG_6199.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Hi there readers and Happy Yew Year!!! I hope this foray into this Year of the Dragon is as powerful for you as it is for me!</span></div><p></p><p>There have been lots of life changes for me this past year - all very good but which has made it difficult to evaluate and post on puerh. I have gone very long stretches months of having no evaluation drinking. I still have no proper work gongfu and am ashamedly evaluating using flash steps in a thermos. With that being said I had some great logical chunks of posts! </p><p> I posted a bunch of <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2023/03/?m=0">BaoHongYinJi reviews in March</a> - I am happy about getting to know the brand. Then I did a full review of complimentary samples of <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2023/09/?m=0">the 2023 Tea Encounter line up </a>and most of the <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2023/10/?m=0">2023 Chenyuan Hao</a> which was really fun! I also got some <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2023/10/puerist-blind-dragonball-samples-intro.html?m=0">blind sampling in with some dragon balls from Puerist</a>. I am content with how I did and enjoy keeping up my skill- mainly it is super fun for me.</p><p>After a year or two of purchasing restraint I really let loose this past year and you can see some of that in my full cake posting in <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2023/11/?m=0">November</a> and <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2023/12/?m=0">December</a> last year. Lots of cakes from TeasWeLike and some from Puerh.uk as well. They are my two favourites! There is more to come in that regard over the next month here. I just recently lost a bunch of unpublished notes on these but like I said they are cakes so I am just in the process of writing new notes. </p><p>My home drinking has changed a bit. I’m back onto smaller but still largish yixing pots! My tea consumption is also down as a result which is always a plus for someone who consumes way too much puerh. Still drinking good puerh though right now <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2022/01/2007-xizi-hao-diangu-drinking-power.html?m=1">2007 Zhi Xi Hao Diangu</a> is in one pot and 2004 YangQing Hao Dingji Yesheng is in the other… life is good! </p><p>Also just last week I started drinking tins Hoshino Yame matcha! The weather has been really springlike or maybe just not that wintery at all with the La Niña this year. I have been getting my matcha fix from Cultivate Tea in Vancouver they got Yame Honshino. This <a href="https://cultivatetea.com/collections/matcha/products/matcha-seiju">Hoshino Seiju grade</a> , second highest in their line, which I’ve been drinking is a real treat with nice texture with a clear fresh taste but not as smoke bitter or vegital or umami just clear sweet greens. I can’t remember trying this one in the past.</p><p>In a homage to <a href="https://half-dipper.blogspot.com/2012/03/dagobah.html?m=1">Hobbes of the Half-Dipper</a> I finally got my first tea pet! Back in the day I was never fond of them nor am I today… I wonder if that’s still a trend or how many people do that? I was fond of one actually it was from amazing Korean female ceramicist <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/women-in-male-dominated-field-look-at.html?m=1">Seung Jin Eh- these beautiful ceramic pagodas</a>. Never did buy one though… then one day one of my older kids comes home with a Grogu. My youngest is showing interest in my tea set but she has a tendency for throwing things. She is totally terrified of that little Grugu so as a test I put him on my tea table and sure enough he is little a cute little scarecrow…. Hahaha</p><p>Ok this Dragon Year is a time of big change so as I was going back to edit this post I realized that I need to do two things to make my tea experience better here and of course it’s not buying more tea…. Hahaha…. </p><p>First thing is I need to improve my technology and change how I record notes so I don’t loose them like I have done a few times over the last two years! If I can spend the money I do on tea then surely I can afford an upgrade. I went out purchased something- it’s got a great macro feature so as an added bonus expect better photos too!</p><p>Second thing is I really got to set up my tea table at work… so I did… it’s not ideal and the table is up a bit higher than I like no drainage system set up yet but it feels good to use again after being in a box for 9 months. Going forward my reviews will be at that table no more of that crazy thermos flash steepings for any of the puerh reviews going forward…</p><p>Peace</p>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02736984697520031171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693176331381554957.post-27524322298716679852024-02-06T19:41:00.002-08:002024-02-06T19:41:57.445-08:00Comparing Four Famous Early Yiwu Autumn Gushu Productions<p> <span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">I got to thinking about the early Autumn Gushu productions produced in the earlier Gushu era by the big Taiwanese Boutique producers. Before 2005 they didn’t market Autumal puerh. These were also the very early days of the Gushu movement. And with the puerh demand increasing and the bubble ready to pop there was all of a sudden a bunch of Botique puerh producers quite interested in good Autumal material. So, as a result we start to see these high quality Yiwu Autumal Gushu productions around this time.</span></p><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">I tried my first back then which <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/sample-1-from-thomas-at-tuo-cha-tea.html?m=1">was a blind sampling of a fresh impressive 2007 Autumn Xi Zhi Hao Pu Zhang</a> (not even Yiwu area) thanks to Thomas of Tuo Cha Tea who acquired it from Houde. Xi Zhi Hao had a few good Autumnal puerh this year. I have not tried any of these earlier Autumn Xi Zhi Hao productions since- to expensive for my tastes back then. But there are earlier ones from other Boutique producers. Four of which I have tried recently and will speak to in this post…</div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">The <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2022/12/2007-chenyuan-hao-autumn-yiwu-chawang.html?m=0">2007 Chenyuan Hao Autumn Yiwu Cang Shu</a> is maybe the most famous of these earlier Autumnal Yiwu Gushus. Certainly it’s the most delicious of the bunch and is super subtle but deep yet delicate. Some mild nice body feeling and qi but mainly just really delicious and easy to drink. Has a bit of the choking throaty feeling which I found to be a negative.</div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">The <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2023/12/famous-puerh-in-west-2006-chen-guang-he.html?m=0">2006 Chen Guang-He Tang Autumn Yiwu Chawang</a> is winning the speed test at my house the last two months. I cant resist its perfectly smoky taste and odours and its deep complex power. It’s got that long Yiwu sweetness but that Guafengzhai qi. Has still strong bitter base and needs pushing. Same hot and dry storage as the above 2007 Chenyuan Hao Autumal Yiwu Cang Shu which along with its tighter rolled leaves makes it pretty good. The clear sweet pure delicious taste of the Cang Shu reigns supreme.</div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2020/06/2005-yang-qing-hao-cangliu-changing.html?m=1">2005 Yang Qing Hao Cang Liu</a> this is an Yiwu Autumn blended with Spring materials and other 6 famous mountains areas. I just retried this and it’s really getting better with age since I last tried it. Nice complex puerh sweet spacious tastes and notable bodyfeeling. Tastes are delicious like the Cang Shu not as delicious but many better and more complex body feelings. After sampling I got to order a cake which I last saw at $205.00 for 500g cake. I hoped to pit it against the 2006 Qixiang in a speed test but it’s all sold out!</div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2020/06/2006-yang-qing-hao-baisuixiang-autumn.html?m=0">2006 Yang Qing Hao BaiSuiXiang</a>- this is an Autumn 6 famous mountains blend. Retrying it is a bit more washed out than I remember with a more typical woody Autumal profile. It has a deeper richer woodier profile mellow Qi with heavy bodyfeeling. Not bad but doesn’t compare to above.</div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Peace </div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" />Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02736984697520031171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693176331381554957.post-72419452322012612812023-12-30T22:09:00.001-08:002023-12-30T22:09:21.566-08:002023 ChenYuan Hao Shanzhong Chuanqi Dragonball: Fresh Subtle Spacey Gushu<p><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitXHSKt-R6VQFIvpAUPukymXgGU4CeufD6bI1NiAqL2Qa6TetP7y2YIlBNahepvBpwfRc9uLaiEjF6zo26yGHLfM0M321i7-_TSdjiKhB22hHH_Gf0-EB8RvQym-0iGLPT2Tcr76dawSyLEkZiBDj8HYhlQW2rPG2nlvNMS0vI_5ArByyLJq2fPDqUnj0/s4032/IMG_5889.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitXHSKt-R6VQFIvpAUPukymXgGU4CeufD6bI1NiAqL2Qa6TetP7y2YIlBNahepvBpwfRc9uLaiEjF6zo26yGHLfM0M321i7-_TSdjiKhB22hHH_Gf0-EB8RvQym-0iGLPT2Tcr76dawSyLEkZiBDj8HYhlQW2rPG2nlvNMS0vI_5ArByyLJq2fPDqUnj0/s320/IMG_5889.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfqhtXsFCHcx55l7H8mKk7CEvJPid2DGISc-8GdQJzkfAgAGvmVyo8AA6P_M4-bsi1Lda4RLY4FunqGGjL8evImNQ1bWzfu3O6jJSd5hSbRBfGpYvXIGBHNOYfBPUFsXLsJb2kz8Er750wIMSoZ3t0KBFNVdbdteokhA6G4fiHmW-tvJBA_azOCOyndzE/s4032/IMG_5890.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfqhtXsFCHcx55l7H8mKk7CEvJPid2DGISc-8GdQJzkfAgAGvmVyo8AA6P_M4-bsi1Lda4RLY4FunqGGjL8evImNQ1bWzfu3O6jJSd5hSbRBfGpYvXIGBHNOYfBPUFsXLsJb2kz8Er750wIMSoZ3t0KBFNVdbdteokhA6G4fiHmW-tvJBA_azOCOyndzE/s320/IMG_5890.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">This free sample came complimentary from my last purchase from Puerh.uk. It’s not yet listed on either <a href="https://puerh.uk/product/2023-chen-yuan-hao-balls/">Puerh.uk site</a> or the <a href="https://chenyuanhao.shop/">ChenYuan Hao site</a> yet. A bit different than <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2023/10/?m=0">the other 2023 ChenYuan Hao I sampled</a> a few months ago as it is in a dragonball shape not sample from cake, and it is a blend. You can’t help but wonder if this has any resemblance to the famous <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2022/01/2005-chen-yuan-hao-shanzhong-chuanqi.html?m=1">2005 Chen Yuan Hao Shanzhong Chuanqi</a> when it was fresh off the press?</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dry leaf smells mildly woody pungent sweet.<div><br /></div><div>30 second rinse the rinsed leaves smell really spicy and pungent with a really sweet mouthwatering berries floral odour.</div><div><br /></div><div>First infusion is a 30 second infusion still quite watery but also sweet sugar and melon with a mouthwatering base and cool throat and breath.</div><div><br /></div><div>Second infusion is left to cool and is a sugary sweet watery onset with a cool woody mid profile and bland sweet finish. </div><div><br /></div><div>Third infusion has a sweet vegital onset with a slight drying sandy mouth feel, slight gripping. Bland sweet aftertaste. Slight spacy slowing feeling.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV2uPyWhEO6FRPA0LEm20zjL_7JFZyueYBS7g6OVkSflbg5c-Tuw_eBuaMzQ0DC_wBW79MAQgPvFzm44k3sPIBrbTpcAKOV6UVlT-a5B4vlazbVQ945W15SlFVZBQtDhT72Egv1QG3cP_zJFLZEIAtMyGkdBkcErdqaPT_L31EN4PSdPeo56XZy9zzDG8/s4032/IMG_5891.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV2uPyWhEO6FRPA0LEm20zjL_7JFZyueYBS7g6OVkSflbg5c-Tuw_eBuaMzQ0DC_wBW79MAQgPvFzm44k3sPIBrbTpcAKOV6UVlT-a5B4vlazbVQ945W15SlFVZBQtDhT72Egv1QG3cP_zJFLZEIAtMyGkdBkcErdqaPT_L31EN4PSdPeo56XZy9zzDG8/s320/IMG_5891.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Fourth infusion has a sweet faint sugar almost melon with a mild bitter. There is more mouth puckering. Slight spacy feeling. Salivating. Overall a bland mild vegital taste with lots of space and faint sweetness. This one tastes more green and fresh than the other 2023 in this tightly compressed Dragonball.</div><div><br /></div><div>Fifth is a bland mild sweet floral taste there is mainly this low level bland vegital taste but pops of sweet tastes melon, faint sugar. It’s faintly bitter and astringent- very mild with this sandy mild pucker mouthfeel and long cool breath. Building spacy Qi feeling.</div><div><br /></div><div>Six infusion has a watery bland initial taste with a mild bitter gripping. There is subtle woods, vegital, and almost floral. Lots of empty space and mild tastes. Strongest part is a spacy Qi sensation that is keeping me a little high today.</div><div><br /></div><div>7th has a woody watery bland taste. Faint distant sugar sweetness and some mouthwatering wet mouthfeeling. Spacy Qi. Cool breath with hints of sweetness.</div><div><br /></div><div>8th is put into a long thermos infusion and is a bitter sweet clear sugar and bland woody almost coco makes the mouthwater. Stronger chesty high with spacy and energetic feeling..,</div><div><br /></div><div>The tight compression of this Dragonball has made this one taste over the top fresh. It’s really has lots of space in its flavour lots of really light subtle tastes but obviously Gushu material. The strongest aspect is its space out Qi. There is a bit of movement throughout the session with the Qi as well to keep it a bit interesting. The mouthfeel is also mild but gripping and at sometimes sandy and puckering but all very mild. There is a nice cooling and mild sweet return. Still too early for this one… </div><div><br /></div><div>The next day I pour out the thermos it has a slight oily buttercup floral sweetness Forest green taste. Almost bitter. Flat sticky faint lips and mouth dryness. Subtle sugar sweet aftertaste. Some spacey relaxing.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm3cqMnuGxDZczPddtNN7qXYwUTXygNm6TTTfSDqoPPOa6abKX9Z2KyD26Ks9O7fS2kN16pCsztlfu3PFFc1erS4o35JyvUuxxkGBn3OAvmCxashWzJpoWldfZm6ZrjvrQGlgJ_YznHfuaFDAERIBtsxk6XWTpdJ6vGsOEA-AlL8pCbSdl0ynZ8yQXow8/s4032/IMG_5892.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm3cqMnuGxDZczPddtNN7qXYwUTXygNm6TTTfSDqoPPOa6abKX9Z2KyD26Ks9O7fS2kN16pCsztlfu3PFFc1erS4o35JyvUuxxkGBn3OAvmCxashWzJpoWldfZm6ZrjvrQGlgJ_YznHfuaFDAERIBtsxk6XWTpdJ6vGsOEA-AlL8pCbSdl0ynZ8yQXow8/s320/IMG_5892.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Hard to imagine that the famous 2005 Chen Yuan Hao Shanzhong Chuanqi had this type of material and processing but this is a nice rare fresh Gushu blend… </div><div><br /></div><div>Peace</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02736984697520031171noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693176331381554957.post-84624411854372633482023-12-28T19:19:00.007-08:002023-12-28T19:25:08.867-08:002006 Chen Guang-He Tang Spring!Yiwu Chawang: Aged Etherial Yiwu Gushu!<p> <br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiADlm-v4UPnI8a0CcbhIMrxZPV0Soib7AO4X7wQSl4na9zSdDOT4T9uMaxd6HgHqReVNDWDafyDK-l6Vl5rFcDhkP439IH-HqV75SLaeENtQ4hX3kkRsFOhNUAY9p-XoaFyiULwcGvKeIOfsEzZV33zGauYBav7eI4BcWo9pgd1PBBQrfY9p9Hd_wEK3s/s4032/IMG_5849.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiADlm-v4UPnI8a0CcbhIMrxZPV0Soib7AO4X7wQSl4na9zSdDOT4T9uMaxd6HgHqReVNDWDafyDK-l6Vl5rFcDhkP439IH-HqV75SLaeENtQ4hX3kkRsFOhNUAY9p-XoaFyiULwcGvKeIOfsEzZV33zGauYBav7eI4BcWo9pgd1PBBQrfY9p9Hd_wEK3s/s320/IMG_5849.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">This is a rather expensive cake apparently- it’s the spring version of the famous <a href="http://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2023/12/famous-puerh-in-west-2006-chen-guang-he.html?m=1">Autumn 2006 Chen Guang-He Tang Autumn Yiwu Chawang</a>. Paolo Of Puerh.uk has some if you are looking to sample it…</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">The dry leaves smell of a sweet fruity odour no smoke at all.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">The wet rinsed leaves have a woody sweet almost mesquite almost barnyard pungent odour.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">First infusion has a bright sweet taste with clear watery feeling. Fuzzy/ mossy mouthfeel. </div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Second infusion has a light clear woody sweet taste. With a mossy slight dry gripping salivating mouthfeel. Peaceful Qi feeling. </div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Third infusion has an oily sweet woody taste with some mossy dry slight gripping mouthfeel. Clear taste profile with some qi felt in the arms relaxing Qi feeling. Slight sweet watery tropical fruit returning taste. </div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAT19YOFiwRaEp0q2pJt0eDPM7OHljVwABcJ8oXUSeze90Y3BY1mrPCZiSIXLpwxOTVwg39lJjNbxcq9MSPgLVtURMeVW0t_nFP1qp6pNstTIBJ0cHCVSnLPUBjUJ2DmJLoujDz1_U21ibSicLWfIsjl6pGkTnlYw0dM1XGxVeRk649QuNROTKU2hu-LU/s4032/IMG_5850.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAT19YOFiwRaEp0q2pJt0eDPM7OHljVwABcJ8oXUSeze90Y3BY1mrPCZiSIXLpwxOTVwg39lJjNbxcq9MSPgLVtURMeVW0t_nFP1qp6pNstTIBJ0cHCVSnLPUBjUJ2DmJLoujDz1_U21ibSicLWfIsjl6pGkTnlYw0dM1XGxVeRk649QuNROTKU2hu-LU/s320/IMG_5850.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Fourth infusion has a watery woody almost creamy sweet pure taste with a slight cooling breath and creamy sweet slight fruity returning sweetness over a mossy slight dry with some lips and roof drying feeling. Chest expansion and calm Qi feeling with feeling in arms and shoulders.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Fifth infusion has a watery woody sweet creamy chalky taste. There is a mossy slight stick mouthfeel very clear pure tastes. Slight creamy slight cool aftertaste. Peaceful calming Qi.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Sixth infusion is a watery pure and clear watery woody in a mossy mouthfeel. Some faint cooling breath with slight sweetness. No bitterness or astringency. Peaceful calm.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Seventh infusion is a bit grains with wood clear pure watery ethereal feeling puerh this is. Mainly just woody tasting with dry gums, teeth and lips. Some chest beats and slight warming face. Relaxing and calm and peaceful.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">The eighth infusion I put this into an hours long mug infusion… it’s comes out pretty woody with a bland woody not that sweet at all. There is a dry sandy mouth feeling cool breath and deeply relaxing qi. There is some bready warming spice root cola cooling medicinal woody sweet complex taste in there but underneath a strong dry woodiness bitter base taste. Had to push it pretty hard to get it out of these leaves. There is some bitterness and mouth puckering dry mouth. Stronger face warming qi with spacy relaxing tranquilizer feeling. I finish up the cup and give it another long steep…. This one has more of a watery not that sweet woody taste.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">One of the best examples of a clean pure ethereal Gushu puerh from the early GuShu era of puerh production. It has good stamina and subtle complexity and depth when pushed. I would have guessed this a few years older if sampled blind.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirYFkCXPYoQj68QC4NJCBIUd_An06Wtx9o6yhyphenhyphenlnTa0G_X5UZL91kxawdtnAR0kMkgDlzrZi8VPP1JZEcvcmcFBlRyHOxjp9w6Akk22kqfHo-md0KUF-lh7erJQzinWy_cIWNugQoDmGw6mL5rvW9_6NPecmy8ijWQHdbdRpVN2eFOTMY9mQ1x0cCG_kc/s4032/IMG_5852.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirYFkCXPYoQj68QC4NJCBIUd_An06Wtx9o6yhyphenhyphenlnTa0G_X5UZL91kxawdtnAR0kMkgDlzrZi8VPP1JZEcvcmcFBlRyHOxjp9w6Akk22kqfHo-md0KUF-lh7erJQzinWy_cIWNugQoDmGw6mL5rvW9_6NPecmy8ijWQHdbdRpVN2eFOTMY9mQ1x0cCG_kc/s320/IMG_5852.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Vs 2006 Autumn Guang Chen-He Tang Yiwu Chawang- The Spring production is much smoother and ethereal tasting and feeling. The spring is much more delicate and it’s Qi really peaceful with more pronounced bodyfeeling. When pushed a bit harder you also get more complex subtle tastes. The Spring tastes like a few years older. The Autumn can be a bit bitter. The Autumn has stronger Qi, Smoke, more old school feeling but a balance between that an Gushu nuance.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Peace<br /></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" />Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02736984697520031171noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693176331381554957.post-68470274331061946612023-12-24T23:27:00.003-08:002023-12-28T19:24:20.780-08:00Famous Puerh in the West: 2006 Chen Guang-He Tang Autumn Yiwu Chawang<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTUZ5ThgrqqCuMrFC-Bi6pmUqmHsBNdQzooCUlw5paxVf5nHaX8326ly0TpTCj8Xy8qYXDO208S6wGH669DMHc2LV41qs2TX0bst6Rcd7sfMcIL-qdqehiedd3ACM4pwwFMlz4cyv9PyYxLocMNcWeojM2WdGIe4BsoigI1Vs1n0EkhLLh615dnpj7g84/s4032/IMG_5796.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTUZ5ThgrqqCuMrFC-Bi6pmUqmHsBNdQzooCUlw5paxVf5nHaX8326ly0TpTCj8Xy8qYXDO208S6wGH669DMHc2LV41qs2TX0bst6Rcd7sfMcIL-qdqehiedd3ACM4pwwFMlz4cyv9PyYxLocMNcWeojM2WdGIe4BsoigI1Vs1n0EkhLLh615dnpj7g84/s320/IMG_5796.jpeg" width="240" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwjM0o67eVMT1WixbbNxIa5wu6r6Eb68GJ1erwYy4sm8wuyXqCDmKCeQvgJ2f3AK7Qmr9Eo3bvKBwtMnW0nT881rYM4gMs-8t9z-ufCk1FWxXwlh3jEsWWYbmFRIfZaOIw05qVndlg5FB-R9to0kS8K53wVMZZNu3XUI4eYLV0ev08ocPa7YJwdQAqaGs/s4032/IMG_5797.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwjM0o67eVMT1WixbbNxIa5wu6r6Eb68GJ1erwYy4sm8wuyXqCDmKCeQvgJ2f3AK7Qmr9Eo3bvKBwtMnW0nT881rYM4gMs-8t9z-ufCk1FWxXwlh3jEsWWYbmFRIfZaOIw05qVndlg5FB-R9to0kS8K53wVMZZNu3XUI4eYLV0ev08ocPa7YJwdQAqaGs/s320/IMG_5797.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqNAyGcKpnCnyb4HcG5Gn_rEl-9JI8iBqh98lyvGFBOJrTRBTuyNR6ALJ4RnKrwT-p7MslNpmw5bUqo5pF-kDrv0OUAwhG7AsIbNZCdMnXAPoGq75sssQkntA7g34r8arks2PQCtqeplfCicnXI5ITUZbtZ2ajkT2mQwKx2hqqlKyc2ZCwiLzjV1lLd1I/s4032/IMG_5799.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqNAyGcKpnCnyb4HcG5Gn_rEl-9JI8iBqh98lyvGFBOJrTRBTuyNR6ALJ4RnKrwT-p7MslNpmw5bUqo5pF-kDrv0OUAwhG7AsIbNZCdMnXAPoGq75sssQkntA7g34r8arks2PQCtqeplfCicnXI5ITUZbtZ2ajkT2mQwKx2hqqlKyc2ZCwiLzjV1lLd1I/s320/IMG_5799.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPdHvyVn_O69FXWyJGySVDKYX8d-8wEm8f75V2qmOdfmoU8tEZ98RkI7jFqbBOSMsDaXYENbzK73NpVoQOVo4NOiK2QBSjAp-7YeyC3JvtSXGip4Bg_IDd-IF2b2mOvfJdZHaQhfYExNcK5vWbO1YtOKFwabhfCeJxzqDqzoX9XE1cpkk_dQA2VyFeW6k/s4032/IMG_5798.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPdHvyVn_O69FXWyJGySVDKYX8d-8wEm8f75V2qmOdfmoU8tEZ98RkI7jFqbBOSMsDaXYENbzK73NpVoQOVo4NOiK2QBSjAp-7YeyC3JvtSXGip4Bg_IDd-IF2b2mOvfJdZHaQhfYExNcK5vWbO1YtOKFwabhfCeJxzqDqzoX9XE1cpkk_dQA2VyFeW6k/s320/IMG_5798.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">As stated in the comments here, this puerh is sort of historical in the West. Like many puerh that have become popularized in Western puerh lore, it had an early fresh off the press release from Houde. I remember when it was first released and the stir that it created with the early online puerh community. As I stated in the comments of an introductory post on this puerh, </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2023/11/black-friday-puerh-purchases-hunter-and.html?m=1"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-size: 14.4px; text-align: justify;">it’s historical in the West because you get all these super famous puerh people/ bloggers trying to decipher something that no one really has much experience with- Phil Sheng, Vlad, Thomas (Tou Cha Tea), Hobbes (The Half-Dipper), Marshal’N.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; text-align: justify;" /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-size: 14.4px; text-align: justify;">Here we have, at the time, one of the first exposures to 1- very fresh Gushu puerh 2- Autumnal production 3- cleverly marketed and at the time crazy expensive Boutique Branding 4- a new an exciting area called Gua Feng Zhi.</span></a><br style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; text-align: justify;" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">There are two main sources that you can still access that give you an idea of the initial response to this 2006 Chen Guang-He Tang (Autumn) Yiwu Chawang. <a href="http://half-dipper.blogspot.com/2007/06/1006-cheng-guanghe-tang-yiwu-chawang.html?m=1">One is from the famous Hobbes of the Half-Dipper Blog</a>. Hobbes and Marshal’N, the most old school drinkers/ Bloggers at this time, really dig their heals in and you can see the resistance to this new way of puerh in the comments. Also you can see that Hobbes does give this one a 7/10. The main criticism of this one is the price which was $80.00 for a whole cake which was at the higher price bracket at this time, unheard of just a few years before. Globally, this was at the very peak of the puerh bubble before it crashed so there were many discussions about if a certain puerh was actually worth its price.</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">The other way hype was spread for this 2006 Chen Guang-He Tang Autumn Yiwu Chawang was through a comparison tasting of another 2006 Chen Guang-He Tang Yiwu also released at Houde- the 2006 Chen Guang-He Tang Autumn Yecha. <a href="https://puerh-tea.livejournal.com/117636.html?">The comparison tasting was organized on Puerh Live Journal by the grandfather himself Marshal’N</a> with famous puerh people Phil Sheng and Davelcorp with detailed contributions among others. The Yecha is a wild tea and was selling for much less and was not as well received as the Chawang. If fact, <a href="https://houdefinetea.com/product/2006-chen-guang-he-tang-yi-wu-yeh-cha-uncooked/">the Yecha is still available for purchase at Houde</a>.</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">The good soul that he is, Hobbes of the Half-Dipper, sent me some unsolicited leftover Chen Guang-He Tang Houde samples around a year later. One of these was the <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/2006-autumn-yi-wu-yah-cha-of-chen-guang.html?m=1">2006 Chen Guang-He Tang Autumn Yiwu Yecha</a>. However, I never did try the Chawang… at the time I thought the prices of the puerh at Houde was mad. I was spending my money on $20-40 cakes.</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">As far as I understand from these early reviews this tea had good potential. It sounds like it had fairly good processing with tightly rolled leaves, a nice somewhat bitter backbone, strong Qi, and some old school smoke. Then take that knowledge with a preferred storage option coming from Daniel (aka Old Man, a source from Puerh.uk which I have a handful of puerh) and the offer to get exclusive access to such things seem pretty hard for me to resist. This <a href="https://puerh.uk/product/2006-chgt-yiwu-chawang-autumn-hot-dry-storage-t4/">2006 Chen Guang-He Autumn Yiwu Chawang sold out at $375.00 for 357g cake or $1.05/g but 25g samples of these cakes are now on offer at Puerh.uk</a> for those who are interested in a bit of puerh history…</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Dry leaves smell of delicious mouthwatering sweet tobbacco leaves. It’s a sweet smelling smoke that a lot of Yiwu would smell like from around this era… I like it.<div><br /></div><div>First infusion has a fruity sweet watery smoke woody with a long cool breath. The sweet taste see is almost banana and melon and there is a slight mesquite BBQ taste. Nice mouthwatering mouthfeel with subtle sandy roof of mouth. Instant deep sigh relaxing and notacable head floating spaciness.</div><div><br /></div><div>Second infusion has a fruity sweet onset with a woody smoke BBQ finish. There is a mouthwatering effect along with some sticky roof of mouth and cool breath. Strong sigh relaxing Qi with arms light and chest sensations.</div><div><br /></div><div>Third infusion has a sweet melon potato mild watery onset with mouthwatering mouthfeeling underlying BBQ mesquite. There is a sticky sandy mouthfeel with done deep throat simulation and long cool throat. Stronger spacy relaxing qi with light limbs and chest.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMvgjdicX-qqO_Wc7mZUDl4cG0UtM37cEBLjqDJgQmh-7HY_bceue_rPsCBRVv3EQD3gvKIc6qv3O9jwgcaJmIy-XwwhtUvBcc0dIJ8hGZjHEaUOzmCUXPuEZsHLNkqI2iU0zsUjI-0Mp0FGxgoA7uTUH9k5B5eSZdgmR29ED_VefGbmFEu84eAYv3muI/s4032/IMG_5836.jpeg" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMvgjdicX-qqO_Wc7mZUDl4cG0UtM37cEBLjqDJgQmh-7HY_bceue_rPsCBRVv3EQD3gvKIc6qv3O9jwgcaJmIy-XwwhtUvBcc0dIJ8hGZjHEaUOzmCUXPuEZsHLNkqI2iU0zsUjI-0Mp0FGxgoA7uTUH9k5B5eSZdgmR29ED_VefGbmFEu84eAYv3muI/s320/IMG_5836.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Fourth infusion has an oily fruity melon woody sweet taste. There is a long cooling breath and faint smoke now with sticky squeaky gums and roof. Bready melon sweet aftertaste gives a slow returning taste. Really clear flavours. Strong spacy Qi with chest radiating and energy down arms. There is a deep throat sensation where the after taste of bread and sweet melon lingers minutes later. Strong Qi is nice- the chest has deep but strong beats and the mind is clear and relaxed spaced out some body floating. Slight warming energy.</div><div><br /></div><div>Fifth infusion has a somewhat oily mouthwatering sweet melon bready woody onset with faint smoke underneath. The mouthfeel is becoming slight drying lips dry with roof and gums sandy squeaky. Strong complex Qi- energized but spacy limbs light chest radiant and warming. Cool breath. Long deep aftertaste minutes later of sweet woody bready melon. </div><div><br /></div><div>Sixth infusion has a watery woody onset with subtle incense smoke some warming spice faintly bitter. None to little sweet onset now with a sticky dry mouthfeeling and deep throat feeling. There still is that returning sweetness but much less mainly sweet woody bready now. Strong complex Qi. </div><div><br /></div><div>Seventh is a long thermos steeping… I take a sip a few hours later and it has a bitterness and woody taste up front with a sweetness underneath. There is a deep throat stimulation with a long blueberry/Strawberry jam like sweetness that lingers.</div><div><br /></div><div>The next morning the taste is a light sugary almost melon sweetness with saliva gobs and returning creamy chalky sweet taste there is some sandy sticky mouthfeeling with deep throat stimulation and solid lingering returning sweetness. There is a creamy sweet almost berries after taste which lingers on the chalky tough coating and into the deep throat. Full feeling and sweet in this overnight infusion of spent leaves. Aftertaste lingers minutes later in the throat and saliva.</div><div><br /></div><div>Did this puerh turn out to be amazing after such a long wait?!??!? I’m not sure about that but it is pretty good and has some great qualities that I look forward to in puerh- old school sweet Yiwu, smoke clear Gua Feng Zhai character long sweet taste, nice strong transforming Qi and bodyfeeling.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha2koSmvHQcD3VKYj4f7BzRBNPPDazv16mK6cEgOUPxb41_AuBSHPfv8OK12LCPxLEyNnaZfRSp4kCiU-q11qHBEVqnwqWW1XR12gpvQFJ_G-VVptK7zgwr6nZy2zjzar-17P9JpQfWCXN6w8BEK3QxYvp9HGGU9N7jcG0v39a1em1-v5CjZO_lNuGv5o/s4032/IMG_5837.jpeg" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha2koSmvHQcD3VKYj4f7BzRBNPPDazv16mK6cEgOUPxb41_AuBSHPfv8OK12LCPxLEyNnaZfRSp4kCiU-q11qHBEVqnwqWW1XR12gpvQFJ_G-VVptK7zgwr6nZy2zjzar-17P9JpQfWCXN6w8BEK3QxYvp9HGGU9N7jcG0v39a1em1-v5CjZO_lNuGv5o/s320/IMG_5837.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Vs <a href="https://www.blogger.com/post-interstitial.g?blogspotURL=https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2021/01/2006-yang-qing-hao-chawangshu-failure.html?m%3D1">2006 Yang Qing Hao Chawangshu</a>- I dragged this one years ago mainly because I was quite disappointed with what Yang’s processing and storage did to this one. The 2006 Chen Guang-He Tang Autumn Yiwu Chawang has much better storage and processing. It shows of the Gua Feng Zhai profile nicely especially in the first infusions also is bitter which the Yang Qing Hao is not. The Qi of the Yang Qing Hao is so so much better though and the reason I have already drank through a cake- strong euphoria and body feeling. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://puerh.blog/teanotes/2006-chen-guang-he-tang-yiwu-chawang-autumn">Alex’s Recent Tasting Notes on this storage option</a></div><div><br /></div>Peace</div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02736984697520031171noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693176331381554957.post-46430764009091710442023-12-22T23:27:00.000-08:002023-12-22T23:27:13.519-08:002012 Legend of Puer Bangdong Shen Gu You Lan: Good Value Gushu!<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span></p><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6gARa4H7sAw_2PIPkxqpYhyJeXG8eUVgduics9LcPwG7-Jh5NHIengUWKA7mP69-np9ngmFCyaXjsWfFmxrcSZSxyJduam88JXXKRYgBHzX1EMSQ8CLYYmCG9ypYtyLG_HG3GbcASZK14RbgaTfhuRLlOSHquHNCRQ9oPKIHeLYnxLoRklVc6uRF3V6U/s4032/IMG_5845.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6gARa4H7sAw_2PIPkxqpYhyJeXG8eUVgduics9LcPwG7-Jh5NHIengUWKA7mP69-np9ngmFCyaXjsWfFmxrcSZSxyJduam88JXXKRYgBHzX1EMSQ8CLYYmCG9ypYtyLG_HG3GbcASZK14RbgaTfhuRLlOSHquHNCRQ9oPKIHeLYnxLoRklVc6uRF3V6U/s320/IMG_5845.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfTfpN5dAqmsUgv9J5tbKbfyZQVpAsE0pkmKiN4PvVTLgPfRTMS9OkLuiGP5Xa85pE7ZR_97vl6djdGZMHOo9mMik9TqLcig0TL8Ysn5QobdW4mjZMbnZk5eruuvCqJjhQoDVG2K8javV4KiZSc_U6ogSPLs6D1uCPqHZ1665jh-tDEgqOQY0ZyxH_meE/s4032/IMG_5846.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfTfpN5dAqmsUgv9J5tbKbfyZQVpAsE0pkmKiN4PvVTLgPfRTMS9OkLuiGP5Xa85pE7ZR_97vl6djdGZMHOo9mMik9TqLcig0TL8Ysn5QobdW4mjZMbnZk5eruuvCqJjhQoDVG2K8javV4KiZSc_U6ogSPLs6D1uCPqHZ1665jh-tDEgqOQY0ZyxH_meE/s320/IMG_5846.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"></span></div></span><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><div dir="ltr">As I sampled the 2014 ShengChun Hao XiGui yesterday, it really reminded me a lot of this <a href="https://teaurchin.com/collections/puer/products/the-orchid-in-valley-2012-spring?variant=40370282070168">2012 Legend of Puer Bangdong Shen Gu You Lan (Orchid In the Valley). It goes for $121.00 for 357g cake or $0.34/g.</a> They both have a similar processing, location, quality, and age. I hit this one pretty hard many years ago and I definitely don’t regret it. It’s aging well in my super dry storage…</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"> Something that caught my eye when I was reading the description on the site many years ago is that the Legend of Puer observed auspicious astrological dates when they picked this tea. I learned about all this interesting stuff when I was picking and producing my own semi-wild green tea in South Korea decades ago but not too many puerh producers seem to follow these astrological signs. It used to be common for puerh to state it was picked before QingMing (April 4th). But that was really all that was stated and it’s rare these days that “Pre- Qingming”. The dates which were chosen to pick this tea are 5/6 days before and after the Spring Equinox on March 21. This would impart both an attempt at centring the powerful. I think this actually describes a bit of this puerh’s essence…</div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dry leaves have an ultra almost perfume floral fragrance with hints of orange and wood notes. Dry leaves smell amazing.<div><br /></div><div>First infusion has a very very sweet creamy floral cake taste with soft chalky mouthwatering oily feeling. There is a distinct light floral almost orange blossoms taste with a woody base taste in a thick chalky mouthfeeling. The qi is also quite strong with a spacy euphoria already building.</div><div><br /></div><div>The second infusion has an oily juicy orange fruit and floral clear clean taste. Really mouthwatering and salivating with spacy euphoria. You can feel the chest beats strong ascending energy with deep sighs. There is a mild astringency underneath that tugs on the throat and empty stomach. Creamy cake like sweet returning with mild wooodiness. A lingering astringency felt on an empty stomach and increases urine.</div><div><br /></div><div>Third infusion has a sweet almost cake like orange woody floral onset with some faint mouth pucker. Chalky on the tongue stimulating on the throat pucker in the mouth. Nice pops of clear delicious flavours. The astringency is building so is the Qi with big mind melting euphoric energizing and chest sensations.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSnud5I25WiWjQIM_XTQjJbbkppccFUJBvI4AgUNUVPAPL-rXBxAKSxvWK1xCahLA91hs9Ls8ARLNUPRxk7ounWpGHatJwJ7jBZGlHZ9J8HnuUDPhXEyI7cDir76rB0vRG9Fo1LSDuqC9gJLIpRBRTxjxUOmctuxbEeizyKouROrXKyUR5nuwL2d79hfg/s4032/IMG_5847.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSnud5I25WiWjQIM_XTQjJbbkppccFUJBvI4AgUNUVPAPL-rXBxAKSxvWK1xCahLA91hs9Ls8ARLNUPRxk7ounWpGHatJwJ7jBZGlHZ9J8HnuUDPhXEyI7cDir76rB0vRG9Fo1LSDuqC9gJLIpRBRTxjxUOmctuxbEeizyKouROrXKyUR5nuwL2d79hfg/s320/IMG_5847.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Fourth infusion is left to cool and gives off a very sweet floral woody caramel taste. Smooth mouthwatering feeling with slight mild chalky feeling and throat stimulation. Nice euphoria high feeling with chest beats and energy. Long sweet cake pastry creamy almost woody orange taste. Mild astringency now. Deep breaths sighs.</div><div><br /></div><div>Fifth infusion has a creamy sweet taste with a mouthwatering lubricating feeling on the tongue. The returning sweetness has an orange blossom woody sweetness. Very sweet long faint cool breath with strong euphoric Qi and chest beats. Nice creamy cake-like sweetness with strong mouthwatering effect and ling cool sweet finish. Very clear pure tastes.</div><div><br /></div><div>Sixth infusion has a smooth creamy sweetness watery wet mouthfeeling with long cool breath and an orange cake like aftertaste with slight woody nuance. The astringency is gone now. Long cool breath sweetness is really nice as is the revitalizing euphoria. </div><div><br /></div><div>Seventh infusion is a blander woodier taste but still mainly sweet creamy cake and florals. The mouthfeel is a touch sandy now with a subtle grains taste. Chest radiating Qi feeling. Slight dry mouthfeeling now slight pucker. Long cooling sweet breath. Nice stamina because it’s still quite sweet here.</div><div><br /></div><div>I put it into an overnight infusion… the next morning it comes off quite sweet floral caramel still pretty oily.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_I4866MoF9TfuynVzWw1ZFCs6K9LR8oE47ILqfH0PYjQnQfQoDb92cMPI-i9bMoNzrH2pB_qv5EuUNdfsV9adovn64JckBmoYjC1r0yFdlsMGWcmtwloFmxwmRnddeuhfjC1USDu_hutilQa1XdS0iwXFCaKj76e4NRgiDnSnTMyXD5vF5B-oIwQcz1U/s4032/IMG_5848.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_I4866MoF9TfuynVzWw1ZFCs6K9LR8oE47ILqfH0PYjQnQfQoDb92cMPI-i9bMoNzrH2pB_qv5EuUNdfsV9adovn64JckBmoYjC1r0yFdlsMGWcmtwloFmxwmRnddeuhfjC1USDu_hutilQa1XdS0iwXFCaKj76e4NRgiDnSnTMyXD5vF5B-oIwQcz1U/s320/IMG_5848.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Vs <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2023/12/2014-chengshunhao-zizaixi-gui-dense.html?m=1">2014 ChengShun Hao XiGui</a>- biggest difference between these two is the density of taste in the XiGui. It has this really compact sweetness that is really nice. The XiGui has more intensity and power where the Bangdong has more long drawn out strong but delicate, as the site description states, more feminine qualities. XiGui has a stronger mouthfeel and astringency and the Qi has a more intense body feeling and deeper energy. The bangdong has a stronger throat opening and more euphoric feeling. They both have that Lincang astringency, as the site states, bit it’s a bit different for each one. The 2012 Bangdong has an astringency that makes you pee whereas the 2014 XiGui, being a bit younger, can feel it in your empty stomach. If you are not a fan of a bit of nice astringency you might want to pass on these…</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://mgualt.com/tealog/2020/08/21/mattchas-mystery-teas-b-f/">Marco (Late Steeps) Blind Tasting Notes ( Mystery Tea F)</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Peace</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" />Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02736984697520031171noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693176331381554957.post-44646316127253059422023-12-16T23:02:00.005-08:002023-12-16T23:41:32.670-08:002014 ChengShunHao / ZiZaiXi Gui: Dense Savoury Sweet Power!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdaTQmpkFpP1_bgTcBSgyi2u4jxXt15JyNafZFuPm5tyI53osKG62xMEvJOWT98Dr5vDaaV2LTicOn53s-HiEvWIIW9EqMo7-EER0m6uuNOmVsGih9arg7CUeNfu-zBiJlA9r-gEQnFRcWZ1XmeDCrTMF0cVnOHRR9bPD82Y-MrIrXu5FqEtDS4rDtmho/s4032/IMG_5839.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdaTQmpkFpP1_bgTcBSgyi2u4jxXt15JyNafZFuPm5tyI53osKG62xMEvJOWT98Dr5vDaaV2LTicOn53s-HiEvWIIW9EqMo7-EER0m6uuNOmVsGih9arg7CUeNfu-zBiJlA9r-gEQnFRcWZ1XmeDCrTMF0cVnOHRR9bPD82Y-MrIrXu5FqEtDS4rDtmho/s320/IMG_5839.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrpzDCfQILCPQwlBlBQGhvGVVrKSJQlcnHQpz-rrphdtleYfo2XuGNU5qE1kiKv_2uqqp0BzEr2S9O2KHiMZd-4fgaLryScXXxKi_cl2jETeS2uzSi5VikcLC3sGtnO3WTVoj9ly5WiF0uZAVm0leEq4RhN_lmPMMNQuG-uNFC3F46t_xCrUxJrVd6nZE/s4032/IMG_5842.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrpzDCfQILCPQwlBlBQGhvGVVrKSJQlcnHQpz-rrphdtleYfo2XuGNU5qE1kiKv_2uqqp0BzEr2S9O2KHiMZd-4fgaLryScXXxKi_cl2jETeS2uzSi5VikcLC3sGtnO3WTVoj9ly5WiF0uZAVm0leEq4RhN_lmPMMNQuG-uNFC3F46t_xCrUxJrVd6nZE/s320/IMG_5842.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpLAZ-ENIVW5Vq0tzaTuPNoKBQg8JEc5Lbx5Xo_2f9q90Y_yZevPwmw0i67jnb870rrJa7p_GE1YGDXxBApx9gjUIOXnwx9n991eozGcSjcITg19d_tW6Xe3nf_sOAs-XVYQhkH2w3m0Hhi2Y1TLpDLqw-4R1iQWZ0abMjJNGzOViPHs93JDVP-rGgOlI/s4032/IMG_5841.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpLAZ-ENIVW5Vq0tzaTuPNoKBQg8JEc5Lbx5Xo_2f9q90Y_yZevPwmw0i67jnb870rrJa7p_GE1YGDXxBApx9gjUIOXnwx9n991eozGcSjcITg19d_tW6Xe3nf_sOAs-XVYQhkH2w3m0Hhi2Y1TLpDLqw-4R1iQWZ0abMjJNGzOViPHs93JDVP-rGgOlI/s320/IMG_5841.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"></span></div><p></p><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><div dir="ltr">This 2014 ChengShun Hao/ Zizai XiGui (approx $390.00 for 250g cake or $1.56/g) was one of the three cakes offered exclusively for those <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2023/11/black-friday-puerh-purchases-hunter-and.html?m=1">who bought into Puerh.uk TCE2 Hunter Package the days before Black Friday</a>. I still can’t believe I did that! There was another 2014 ChengShun Hao / ZiZai which I was less interested in and did not purchase a cake it was a 400g ManZhuan Gushu for approx $310.00 or $0.78/g. Paolo mentioned that the processing is maybe similar to Tea Urchin cakes on these ChengShun Hao/ ZiZai . All three cakes were favourably stored by” Old Man” aka Daniel which is a hot/dry storage. I was curious about this one as more of an expensive tuition cake on the XiGui producing area one of the most famous puerh producing areas which I still have very little experience with…. This one turned into being a real treat…</div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br /></div>Dry leaves have a sweet subtle smoky grains odour. <div><br /></div><div>Rinsed wet leaf smells like woody percing sweet caramel reminds me of the odour of a good Bangdong area puerh.<br /><div><br /></div><div>First has a watery caramel sweet woody grains with a watery slight stickiness in the roof and tongue. Some faint fruity bangdong vibe with a touch of super faint astringency. Faint cooling breath. Was told that this has a processing and feel similar to Tea Urchin and it’s spot on would have thought 100% this is from Tea Urchin. Cooled down it really tastes like a sweet caramel Bangdong with slight woody astringency. A little spacy mind feeling.</div><div><br /></div><div>Second is a woody incense caramel sweet with cool throat. There is that sticky almost dry lips and tongue feeling. Some moderate throat stimulation. Some moderate astringency. There is almost a metallic taste in the initial but that is not really how to describe it. Also a slight salty nuance in the aftertaste. Spacey qi sensation. Some chest Heart beats with strong deep energy building in the chest and Lungs. Qi has a spacy warm strong transformational quality to it. This really tastes like a 2012 Tea Urchin stored Bangdong Gushu cake I have and will review next post but with much stronger Qi! The strong Qi and astringency makes this one hard to enjoy on an empty stomach.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYXcbH951bekXFYl0jsmTBJWQgV35VzZN2x2dxeHfKk-mXMNes_c6J8p8OH3bwH0CBzmLEPJCo_45Ixdme3nKxybnxMYOy7fsP-MdQUTSXpL1fMjvsaPBwi15YsKCot993jdDtY50RB5uo6n45-mJsVVk6izIcqdJFg-j7FN74ARnk8e-r3uJYQZ50BUU/s4032/IMG_5844.jpeg" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYXcbH951bekXFYl0jsmTBJWQgV35VzZN2x2dxeHfKk-mXMNes_c6J8p8OH3bwH0CBzmLEPJCo_45Ixdme3nKxybnxMYOy7fsP-MdQUTSXpL1fMjvsaPBwi15YsKCot993jdDtY50RB5uo6n45-mJsVVk6izIcqdJFg-j7FN74ARnk8e-r3uJYQZ50BUU/s320/IMG_5844.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Third infusion has a woody sort of metallic flat taste with sweet creamy returning taste over a chalky full mouthfeeling. The astringency is building as the Qi completely melts my mind and the chest beats strongly. I cower under the power of this tea. The cooled down infusion has a creamy sweet almost metallic and a bit salty taste with strong salivating returning feeling with long chalky creamy sweetness and astringency that comes close to gagging. I need to eat here…. The sweet woody caramel is caught in the saliva. This is a pretty strong puerh and does better when a bit less leaf is used…</div><div><br /></div><div>Fourth infusion is a smooth woody chalky creamy sweetness with some salty savoury taste it has a mouthwatering effect and long sweet creamy salty chalky returning sweetness. Strong Qi makes the heart beat strongly and pushes the mind into a bit of a frenzied mindset.</div><div><br /></div><div>5th infusion has a creamy sweet watery almost salty taste. There is some almost metallic taste with a salty woody creamy sweetnesss returning that makes the mouthwater. Much less astringency now makes it enjoyable especially with the mouthwatering sweetness. The energetic pushes me to an overwhelming sigh.</div><div><br /></div><div>6th is left to cool and has a creamy fluffy/chalky sweetness with a salty balance. Smooth sweet salty mouthwatering. Oily mouthwatering feel with some mild throat stimulation but not any astringency any more. Nice energetic calm (after the storm).</div><div><br /></div><div>7th is put into an overnight thermos steeping…. I dip into it an hour or so later and get a really nice dense creamy sugar with a salty savoury taste and full chalky mouthfeel. Really delicious savoury and sweet dense presentation is really unique. Strong deep high feeling here too… next day it is quite sweet with a creamy sugary sweetness that pops in the mouth there is a thicker chalky mouthfeel with nuances of custard and almost fruit berries. Super delicious this next morning with a full mouthfeel.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBNg81UbTwnJtlOVvPbkY6wqfq7hhtC9pwX4ykMUSjhLFOZJ9sunJnkpH_OEc4qA4k_iqo6FjGQ_SI3wHFnJjxz4AU1SnMDSFa9K-eq05Eo4EG0uQV2MD3iO5ykVzV-iOzKFBmKSagu3TbXCkYiiJnbf5ji-pZE3ld8moIV5cyyIcHcC28FAHjPAzYvVk/s4032/IMG_5843.jpeg" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBNg81UbTwnJtlOVvPbkY6wqfq7hhtC9pwX4ykMUSjhLFOZJ9sunJnkpH_OEc4qA4k_iqo6FjGQ_SI3wHFnJjxz4AU1SnMDSFa9K-eq05Eo4EG0uQV2MD3iO5ykVzV-iOzKFBmKSagu3TbXCkYiiJnbf5ji-pZE3ld8moIV5cyyIcHcC28FAHjPAzYvVk/s320/IMG_5843.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>I keep wanting to go back and try this puerh again which says something. This puerh is a bit interesting and unique for the things I’ve tried before. Something a bit different with the really strong presentation, strong Qi and dense complex flavours and solid chalky full mouthfeel. The best part is the salty sweet dense mouthwatering taste. I’m not sure if this is a characteristic of XiGui area puerh or not? If it is I can see why it is so valued. <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2019/10/2013-bao-he-xiang-zi-yun-gui-xigui-i.html?m=1">My only other experience with Xigui</a> area also had a notable dense sweet taste as well as some savoury almost vegetable notes and a full chalky mouthfeel.</div><div><br /></div><div>Anyone out there have any experience with the XiGui area and want to give me their personal take on it? </div><div><br /></div><div>Peace </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02736984697520031171noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693176331381554957.post-27454965288411895342023-12-12T17:46:00.001-08:002023-12-12T17:49:31.528-08:002005 Nan Qiao Purple Peacock: Leathery Sweet Deep Energy <p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUgblGfaj_qf-aUI8Y_OXtjbdtOm7m4BTrzb3iBfOPlF3GjeIQ76dWv_rsamovjc2szkCKYFICaSpPZA0fWeNUoEM0iEC9sFrtcQ80m9waBy9vUnZqvDMZMtlERq00ezVLQ05LEcJ-DnxQILXCbVBKAcRk7EAYwPDSgnukWKRzTyHk85NV5p21zyXVOJg/s4032/IMG_5682.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUgblGfaj_qf-aUI8Y_OXtjbdtOm7m4BTrzb3iBfOPlF3GjeIQ76dWv_rsamovjc2szkCKYFICaSpPZA0fWeNUoEM0iEC9sFrtcQ80m9waBy9vUnZqvDMZMtlERq00ezVLQ05LEcJ-DnxQILXCbVBKAcRk7EAYwPDSgnukWKRzTyHk85NV5p21zyXVOJg/s320/IMG_5682.jpeg" width="240" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9BxiulWSO6IYme7ZkFJuDB-wYxArDDBUSJYLl3O_3GLQbe5kXApbyG0R-lIApHSEahggUZ7Pxmtrx8079FL13yWdhcJTdCuvLIwyNb3IXxCYdSUWBsVrAT6L40EJ3V13iQQ9Rs6I_zI7v4KlK0PuO2X_DGCxuZtw4B6EfcfkmtD-SI1Uok2YegmTMERQ/s4032/IMG_5683.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9BxiulWSO6IYme7ZkFJuDB-wYxArDDBUSJYLl3O_3GLQbe5kXApbyG0R-lIApHSEahggUZ7Pxmtrx8079FL13yWdhcJTdCuvLIwyNb3IXxCYdSUWBsVrAT6L40EJ3V13iQQ9Rs6I_zI7v4KlK0PuO2X_DGCxuZtw4B6EfcfkmtD-SI1Uok2YegmTMERQ/s320/IMG_5683.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtwfCydhO38XS_XYQUf2QcQOoL1CrBg04K7NRXBpQOZVdguaa8uFBy5y4gz8s30yPUl-2QSZJQHWZw_SuNtfUCLR8Qg_dbmHbM6hHNDa4P0ZIzNOcrPpD-TgtmCY3qIVUf8ljDcr5adJiPRvAa3TsHUnCVaHbGUXXTAhLy6zYsR_DadeCR2pNEk0cVHdA/s4032/IMG_5685.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtwfCydhO38XS_XYQUf2QcQOoL1CrBg04K7NRXBpQOZVdguaa8uFBy5y4gz8s30yPUl-2QSZJQHWZw_SuNtfUCLR8Qg_dbmHbM6hHNDa4P0ZIzNOcrPpD-TgtmCY3qIVUf8ljDcr5adJiPRvAa3TsHUnCVaHbGUXXTAhLy6zYsR_DadeCR2pNEk0cVHdA/s320/IMG_5685.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl787YbFzvPzGikEKPSn6_6DoM9xgvkoeljIzyEWwZ9kwqU4sjlg6peMISw9i23jvJzqZYKuVPYDR9ka7rNNTyRZZAS00c8gUizhD79zHB0rh0A44w9ZW9WHH6gWHJ47HqZwOOEJlMb0hhNad8lXWgYMVtMmS7eddPhcSzWcMiirAAPGzem5W4ZEv0DTQ/s4032/IMG_5684.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl787YbFzvPzGikEKPSn6_6DoM9xgvkoeljIzyEWwZ9kwqU4sjlg6peMISw9i23jvJzqZYKuVPYDR9ka7rNNTyRZZAS00c8gUizhD79zHB0rh0A44w9ZW9WHH6gWHJ47HqZwOOEJlMb0hhNad8lXWgYMVtMmS7eddPhcSzWcMiirAAPGzem5W4ZEv0DTQ/s320/IMG_5684.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">To me that TeasWeLike has seemed to release its Malaysian puerh in different waves. The first wave within their first year was the release of their three Malaysian dry storage cakes. The <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2020/03/2006-rustic-zhongcha-from-teas-we-like.html?m=1">2006 Rustic Zhongcha</a>, a favourite of mine, is doing better than most of my cakes in my horrible Canadian dry storage (see recent notes here in comparison with the <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2023/11/2004-cnnp-red-mark-rustic-sweat-heat.html?m=1">2004 Red Label</a>). Then there is the <a href="https://teaswelike.com/product/2003-zhongcha-7532-malaysia-dry-stored/">2003 Zhongcha 7532</a>- which unbelievably I have not tried yet because it always seems to be either sold out or I have other pressing interests haha… I promise you a review when I track it down! There is also the <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2022/02/2001-teas-we-like-iron-zhongcha-oil.html?m=1">2001 Iron Zhongcha</a>, another favourite in my 2001 iron cakes comparison last year.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Not long after that they released the dry natural Malaysian stored 2005 Nan Qiao Bulang Double Lion which, again, (see the trend) is also a favourite. In the description for this 2005 Nan Qiao Purple Peacock TeasWeLike quotes 4 other quality NanQiao productions that they have offered and for which the quality of this 2005 Nan Qiao Purple Peacocks can be compared- the 2005 Nan Qiao Bulang Double Lion, 2006 Nan Qiao Bulang Double Lion, and 2004 Nan Qiao Bulang King I will take and compare them at the end….</div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Then last year or two they released a bunch of dry Natural Malaysian stored cakes which include <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2023/11/2001-red-ribbon-first-release-storage.html?m=1">this 2001 Red Ribbon</a> as well as the <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/search?q=Colours+of+Malaysia&m=1">Colours of Malaysian cakes</a>.</div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Sometime in the last few months or so they finally released their first full on more heavily Natural Malaysian stored cakes - this <a href="https://teaswelike.com/product/2005-nanqiao-purple-peacocks/">2005 Nan Qiao Purple Peacock ($310.00 for 357 g cake or $0.87/g)</a> is one such cake…</div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></div>Dry leaves smell of faint woody leaves.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">First infusion has a deep almost earthy woody with some hard to grasp fruits and florals that push through a pop through leaving a nice cool breath with a floral grains sort of grape creamy sweet taste underneath. There is some salivating with the returning sweetness but a silty chalky mouthfeel overall. You can feel some chest beats in this deep based complex infusion.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Second infusion as a deep woody heavy but also light sweet creamy almost fruit floral. Here is a nice cooling with sweet creamy sugary that pops in the mouth over a base of deep woods, leathers, and faint prunes. Mouthfeel is a chalky silty full feeling with deep cooling throat. Qi is both alerting, chest beating and calming while being very comfortable in the body.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Third infusion has a deep woody leathery taste with a lighter creamy sugar cool sweetness that returns in the thick deep aged base taste. Deep calm focused feeling. There is a fruity prune leathery sweetness that is almost bitter at the end. The qi is nice and warming and pushes me into a sweat. </div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAPWOhtac2U7HPFIUR_2Yd9q2atXuAfdWGLkotNt0SBU2jAmBtenhW2S8HMqGNAwpebKOO6fV1C7A4sDbvui0KE7T8AaFyKbQ2JJrC6wcTW7kE1orYT0bS3nLugyzRGR2J977VDjmlWDAQ0zlrHuQRGGdv2nXZFm1UtCSCkeIs8D_REzejG3DaMQACDrg/s4032/IMG_5686.jpeg" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAPWOhtac2U7HPFIUR_2Yd9q2atXuAfdWGLkotNt0SBU2jAmBtenhW2S8HMqGNAwpebKOO6fV1C7A4sDbvui0KE7T8AaFyKbQ2JJrC6wcTW7kE1orYT0bS3nLugyzRGR2J977VDjmlWDAQ0zlrHuQRGGdv2nXZFm1UtCSCkeIs8D_REzejG3DaMQACDrg/s320/IMG_5686.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Fourth has a sweet woody deep prune silty touch smoke full feeling dense presentation with cool breath and light creamy sugar sweetness able to punch through. Deep cool breath deep relaxing calm and warming qi with steady energy boost. </div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">5th has a deep woody slight smoke silty leather taste with a cool breath with less sweetness riding there now but big warming qi with chest swelling and deep calm and energy rising. A incense with deep woody silty taste. Strong deep energy built up feel a bit peppy energy.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">6th is left to cool but has a sweet bready mineral sugar taste up front with cool breath and sugar finish. Nice full dense taste. There is a silty mouthfeeling a bit fluffy silty. There is less heaven deep base taste in this cooled down infusion </div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">7th is also left to cool and gives off a deeper woody slight smoke incense there is a stewed plum sugary leathery taste to it. Almost sour astringent but not really. Softer silty almost slippery feeling. The effect excentuates the sweetness and makes it taste quite fruity and long in the aftertaste. Warming chest Qi and a bit calmer here.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">8th is a thick full deep woody subtle smoke incense leather almost mushroom with an underlying growing bitterness. Deep strong chest earth and energy charged up restorative but also superficial energy boost.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">9th has a woody ashy incense smoke which is not that upfront in the thick leathery woody taste. There is some significant cooling on the breath. There is a woody deep silty almost bitter taste throughout. Strong warming and energy boost.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">The 10th I put into a long overnight mug steeping and it comes off light creamy sugary sweet with a subtle bready mushroom taste. Mainly sweet now. With slighy dry silty mouthfeeling. </div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAp8BrRmA-ZqjjauVmPo62JBC23PcuBr9LrfsMA_F0KJONPlm7HDb05FqMolGgyk5omYfnUdChritRqg9E0KigGyd2sRhfraZLfrNR84qK2IuG38_vMtc0WIM_LZ3DjB7o4pj2MKoMZvfbswBDBd4rtBbRe_JpgSyje7szEaLIXFmp6knRi62H0PDcqjg/s4032/IMG_5687.jpeg" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAp8BrRmA-ZqjjauVmPo62JBC23PcuBr9LrfsMA_F0KJONPlm7HDb05FqMolGgyk5omYfnUdChritRqg9E0KigGyd2sRhfraZLfrNR84qK2IuG38_vMtc0WIM_LZ3DjB7o4pj2MKoMZvfbswBDBd4rtBbRe_JpgSyje7szEaLIXFmp6knRi62H0PDcqjg/s320/IMG_5687.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">The brilliance of this cake is that it has pretty heavy relativly wetter Malaysian Natural Storage but yet it retains lots of its complexity. We see that in the Qi sensation with it being superficially energizing but also a long deeper energy boost that might keep you up at night. Also can have a simultaneous calm feeling in some infusions. Some mild body feeling of swelling in chest but a strong warmth that can push you to sweat. The mouthfeel and flavour is similarly complex with deeper leather woody and sometimes prune notes but still not washing out a sugary creamy sweetness that sometimes tastes fruity. </div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Ranking of the four premier Nan Qiao releases from TeasWeLike:</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">1- <a href="http://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2020/03/2005-nan-qiao-double-lion-bulang.html?m=1">2005 Nan Qiao Bulang Double Lion</a>- Medium dry-ish natural Malaysian stored delivers strong sweet flavours of long plum sweetness and bittersweet coco dense taste with a lubricating oily mouthfeel. Strong immediate energetic Qi and touch of smoke makes you remember that it’s Bulang!</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">2- <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2020/02/2004-nan-qiao-bulang-king-strong-qi.html?m=1">2004 Nan Qiao Bulang King</a>- Taiwanese dry stored with a similar storage feel to Wistaria storage. Lots of complexity and subtle nuance to it due to the storage. Pulled this one out of some deeper storage sampling it first time in years it has done well, lost most of its bitterness and simply has a nice dry storage woody subtitles. Nothing off about it not really any flaws. This has to be the best cheaper puerh that TeasWeLike has sold. Has the best qi out of these I think with a strong energetic euphoria. So refreshing and enlivening!</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">3- 2005 Nan Qiao Purple Peacock- the heavier Natural Malaysian storage gives the taste and feel of aged puerh while not drowning out what this nice complex Menghai area blend. It can give off sweeter lighter and deeper aged flavours. Still some bitter and astringency left in here somewhere. The qi gives a deeper energy boost with stronger warming energy.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">4- <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2023/12/2006-nan-qiao-bulang-double-lion.html?m=1">2006 Nan Qiao Bulang Double Lion</a>- dry Natural Malaysian storage, the most straightforward Bulang of the bunch with a herby vegetal bitter profile and slight dry gripping squeaky gums feel. Stronger Qi alertness and buzziness out of the group.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Peace</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" />Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02736984697520031171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693176331381554957.post-7321654067267533372023-12-11T21:00:00.003-08:002023-12-11T21:08:41.366-08:002006 Nan Qiao Bulang Double Lion: Straight Up Bulang-ness!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghiSfQaqbrR5WVHvl2sm9mbKee8OSUt-8WvIKgaL-51CQ2EZ3aZX-wkUA2TLSHOuMyTi43uSlRY87didVZXmnpSV53S3HS1Qyp6SlV08k_coFT62umMmt0_uLrVs5f3iMyINxGud5MV2zu150vYzQhBtGfy6ygQrKrqx1-POdZMFVTQi8Atno6Sz6fymE/s4032/IMG_5781.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghiSfQaqbrR5WVHvl2sm9mbKee8OSUt-8WvIKgaL-51CQ2EZ3aZX-wkUA2TLSHOuMyTi43uSlRY87didVZXmnpSV53S3HS1Qyp6SlV08k_coFT62umMmt0_uLrVs5f3iMyINxGud5MV2zu150vYzQhBtGfy6ygQrKrqx1-POdZMFVTQi8Atno6Sz6fymE/s320/IMG_5781.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">This is one of the premier Nan Qiao cakes offered by TeasWeLike. This is the second Bulang Double Lion release, the first being the famous and twice the price 2005 Nan Qiao Double Lion. This <a href="https://teaswelike.com/product/2006-bulang-double-lion/">2006 Nan Qiao Double Lion goes for $165.00 for 357g cake or $0.46/g</a> and is billed as a good value proposition compared to the 2005. These are actually quite different… let’s see if it’s worth it to pay less…</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br /><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dry leaves smell of bready sweet smoke is quite delicious.<div><br /></div><div>First infusion has a creamy sweet BBQ taste that has this squirt of mouthwatering with a flat almost metallic taste. Long cooling breath with some sandy grains taste and mouthfeel that is sandy in the mouth. The significant sweetness and long cooling breath are notable. You can definitely feel the Qi in the chest. It’s strongly beats the heart and has a release of heat.</div><div><br /></div><div>Second infusion has a slight smoky less sweet quality upfront. Slight mesquite. The mouthfeel is sandy and the energy is pretty strong in the chest and warmth. The mouthfeel is slight drying and in the breath an almost berry sweetness in the throat.</div><div><br /></div><div>Third infusion has a more bitter with a flat woody almost but not coco. There is an earthy tree bark almost vegetable herby taste in there that is characteristic of some Bulang. Strong mouth puckering dry feeling in the mouth. Dry bitter feeling with teeth squeak.</div><div><br /></div><div>Fouth infusion has a herby woody smoke bitterness and an underlying trying to be creamy sweetness. More bitter smoke here and much less sweet. There is a bready sweetness building in the aftertaste located in the throat. The energy comes from the heart and moves upward. Dry grabbing squeaky mouthfeeling. </div><div><br /></div><div>Fifth infusion has a vegital herby woody less Smokey bitterness. There is some lesser sweetness and more flattening of tastes. Sandy drying slight squeaky gums and teeth mouthfeeling. There is still a strong energetic feel especially in the chest and mind but also a slight high from the resulting energy surge.<br /><div><br /></div><div>The sixth is much the same a bit more bland but still strong. Slight vegital herby woody bitter. Not much sweet anymore. There is some strong chesty heart beats and rising energy. Strong powerful surge clears the mind.</div><div><br /></div><div>I come back to the leaves the next day…</div><div><br /></div><div>The cooled down left overnight remaining liquid of the 6th infusion tastes of mesquite BBQ. With a slight gripping, slight drying mouthfeel with squeaky teeth and gums. </div><div><br /></div><div>7th is a bit sweet creamy and oily with some faint herbs and BBQ mesquite more of a silty finish. </div><div><br /></div><div>The 8th is put into an overnight thermos infusion…</div><div><br /></div><div>Vs <a href="http://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2020/03/2005-nan-qiao-double-lion-bulang.html?m=1">2005 Nan Qiao Bulang Double Lion</a>- The 2005 Nan Qiao is significantly better and the price is around twice as much ($325.00 for 357g cake or $0.91/g) but why???? First of all in sampling the 2005 after the 2006 they are a lot closer in back to back sampling than my memory tells me. The 2005 is much more sweet and has thicker denser flavours, the 2005 also has more coco chocolate bitter sweetness. it’s this very strong long sweet taste with the bitter coco that really elevates this 2005 Bulang. The 2006 has only glimpses of this but has an overall more complex and evolving taste throughout the session with very obvious classic herbs Bulang taste profile, the Qi is similar maybe the 2006 is actually a bit more intense… the Qi is pretty close, the biggest difference between the two is really the mouthfeel- the 2005 has a thick oily mouthwatering feeling where the 2006 has a more undesirable dry gripping squeaking gums and teeth feeling. As result of the above, the 2005 has more stamina than the 2006. I feel like the 2005 has more humid dry Malaysian storage compared to the relatively drier Natural Malaysian stored 2006 but the description of the 2006 suggests the other way around… Overall the 2006 has an undeniable Bulang character and complexity where the 2005 sort of does fancy things… depends on my mood if I’m going to want to cake this next time and save a bit or just stick to drinking the 2005? I like the straight up Bulang-ness for the price … yeah I’m thinking cake it! Hahaha …</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-nmd0H9me3Y">Denny and James (TeaDB) Tasting Notes</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Peace</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02736984697520031171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693176331381554957.post-7304788637244632462023-12-02T12:08:00.002-08:002023-12-02T13:02:24.319-08:002004 Ai Lao Natural Malaysian Storage: Recommend Aged Value <p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1dXHZ-KKI1BNy0zSIUUjUHWl6KtLk-K6kxWgXAV23dr0QxFWGaO0XrLnK1YTikw6E00RKGszGEOkummRbbFWvIfbOwKeGoM1wy146ha7kBBaHy2SHJWq2rC_41mDQWL-3EOC0etT3p06OYGsfFi9VveJgLr4rZaqbUMmIOlnBdX0hosXFPPU4scc4YJE/s4032/IMG_5478.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1dXHZ-KKI1BNy0zSIUUjUHWl6KtLk-K6kxWgXAV23dr0QxFWGaO0XrLnK1YTikw6E00RKGszGEOkummRbbFWvIfbOwKeGoM1wy146ha7kBBaHy2SHJWq2rC_41mDQWL-3EOC0etT3p06OYGsfFi9VveJgLr4rZaqbUMmIOlnBdX0hosXFPPU4scc4YJE/s320/IMG_5478.jpeg" width="240" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXfb_47jZKii4Nb_RLK1KpPNflZPFvlh1vTLceKfHcertT2K7WNHlbOpUzlql-oolVZQcbUMPNEu5A0RiIjZeV6Ar0u0fw88Sul-ikcVpLszOmTjh5BMB2nKF_hU_Op2XQjXnWe8bdBx95q8ve4TqihMjvjKUxpL0F16KVW37BVi1avwmyQrVCdktT2D0/s4032/IMG_5480.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXfb_47jZKii4Nb_RLK1KpPNflZPFvlh1vTLceKfHcertT2K7WNHlbOpUzlql-oolVZQcbUMPNEu5A0RiIjZeV6Ar0u0fw88Sul-ikcVpLszOmTjh5BMB2nKF_hU_Op2XQjXnWe8bdBx95q8ve4TqihMjvjKUxpL0F16KVW37BVi1avwmyQrVCdktT2D0/s320/IMG_5480.jpeg" width="240" /></a></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmfhO8eFbwrXAY9QZfiXu40EYcYrsnD82H-FNjBIVxPa8OmIkxi5mFOV4XHmlnaQoLlUHiCt9-FaYtRbz2Q_II_AME53-JQDt5ugxekEO0S0zIVYKozBRDAhED_ljivikqV0-Jz8NXxt7i_1BRXo4YqpinI1nADpRKtbXnw__J1aKptjKXHYnpjfS_lmY/s4032/IMG_5482.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmfhO8eFbwrXAY9QZfiXu40EYcYrsnD82H-FNjBIVxPa8OmIkxi5mFOV4XHmlnaQoLlUHiCt9-FaYtRbz2Q_II_AME53-JQDt5ugxekEO0S0zIVYKozBRDAhED_ljivikqV0-Jz8NXxt7i_1BRXo4YqpinI1nADpRKtbXnw__J1aKptjKXHYnpjfS_lmY/s320/IMG_5482.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfuGS-y-NoeJ5mmWaYx4j6CHqTvowYP1vFdn5w9CZeVcBD2Dvqd_z5TqulA_yJDzj8I07L_2NzawWLRfxB167VUfYb6KtWEViivr0JH9KlBeA6z0DbZhYX5SARrejRzn0NEwH77EanCfW6Jlw5SIHtqZDdEhujDgkj4XVY4r_F-irdJQL-Jo95esvYmug/s4032/IMG_5481.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfuGS-y-NoeJ5mmWaYx4j6CHqTvowYP1vFdn5w9CZeVcBD2Dvqd_z5TqulA_yJDzj8I07L_2NzawWLRfxB167VUfYb6KtWEViivr0JH9KlBeA6z0DbZhYX5SARrejRzn0NEwH77EanCfW6Jlw5SIHtqZDdEhujDgkj4XVY4r_F-irdJQL-Jo95esvYmug/s320/IMG_5481.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;">Correct me if I’m wrong… But it has taken four years for TeasWeLike to start curating Northern area puerh (<a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2020/02/2001-zhongcha-huang-yin-from-teas-we.html?m=1">what about this nice one?</a>). I was trying to give Marco a little nudge-nudge when I sent <a href="https://mgualt.com/tealog/2022/10/27/mattcha-yearly-blind-tasting/">my last blind sample package of Northern everyday drinkers last year</a>… hahaha. So I have been really looking forward to this release… and when it finally came I was like Ai Liao … really?</span></div><p></p><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br />We have all <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/search?q=Ai+Lao&m=1">tried lots of Ai Liao area puerh</a> in our lifetime. It was a staple of the early Gushu movement of teas as featured in Yunnan Sourcing’s first releases amongst many others. Despite all the fresh Ai Lao area puerh I’ve consumed I have never tried any that was substantially aged. <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2021/05/2018-puerist-ai-lao-breaking-my-winter.html?m=1"> I wondered aloud the last time of consumption what exactly could Ai Lao puerh possibly age into?</a> … and finally now we have our answer… well sort of…<br /><br />“I’ve seen that wrapper before “ is something that has inevitably entered into the consciousness of all long time puerh drinkers… when I saw this <a href="https://teaswelike.com/product/2004-ailao-malaysian-natural-storage/">2004 Ai Lao Natural Malaysian Storage ($120.00 for 400g cake or $0.30/g)</a> on the TeasWeLike site. It’s most definitely of old school factory production and pedigree. I don’t think we can really expect the Gushu productions of Ai Lao that we have gotten to know will age similar to this old school tight compressed chopped leaf… so now I’m getting pretty excited about finally finding out how this stuff could sort of theoretically age out…<br /><br />Dry leaves have a sweet plum cherry sweet odour with slight fallen leafy background.<br /><br />First infusion is left to cool and is an oily sweet plum cherry slight sour woody viscus treat. There is a woody resin almost bready base taste. Quite oily and mouthwatering. Obvious fruity aged tastes. Slight cool mouth and open throat. Happy qi feeling.<br /><br />Second infusion has a woody resin sweet bready taste with fruity sour pops of fruity flavours underneath. Sour cherry, sour berries- sweet and sour dominate here. Still nice oily mouthfeel with a faint mouth dryness. Slight warming. <br /><br />Third infusion has a woody sour fruit taste over an oily slight silty dry mouthfeeling. Sort of woody bready sweet faint sour fruit left in the mouth. Nice happy vibe with some mild warming.<br /><br />Fourth infusion has pops of sour cherry with woody almost mushroom taste. Slight roast incense underneath now. Has a bit of oily texture but with an increasing dryness in the mouth, gums, roof slight squeaky dry. Slight relaxing energy.<br /><br />5th has a rich woody fruity sour taste. There are layers of an almost sugar sweetness, a woody base and sour fruity sweetness. A bready almost fruity sweetness is left in the mouth. Nice happy relaxed feeling.<br /><br />6th has a sweet roots and woody ciccory sweetness. The mouthfeel gets slightly tighter and drier with each infusion but still a touch of oily texture. This infusion has a warm spice almost Ginseng taste note here. Less fruity and sour and more sweet and spiced. Nice mind relax happy.<br /><br />7th infusion has a nice deep rich sweet woody taste upfront with slight resin and incense. Sweet rich woody bready taste dominates with still some oily texture. <br /><br />8th has a sweet flavour woody rich almost jam sweetness with some faint bitter astringency nice chalky silty mouthfeel. Uplifting happy qi. Mild warming. Slight incense smoke in distance but mainly woody sweet.<br /><br />9th I steep out the next day… and it’s a mild sweet mild sour woody taste… slight gripping mouthfeel with a very faint chalky bubble gum taste which did not come up in the session or sessions before. <br /><br />Vs <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2019/02/2003-shuangjiang-mengku-da-xue-shan.html?m=1">2003 Shuangjiang Mengku (Rongshi) Da Xue Shan Wild</a>- when I started to sample this 2004 Ai Lao I immediately found lots of similarities between these two. Both Northern puerh with areas close in proximity, almost identical production year, both old factory productions with tight compression, very similar natural Malaysian storage taste. The big difference is that the Da Xue Shan is a wild tea not conventional variety and as such there is lots more space with less dense flavour but on the other hand a bit stronger Qi. The 2004 Ai Lao has much more complexity and more evolution across the session. It’s much more dense, delicious, warming- my favourite is the woody resinous taste and oily texture in the first few infusions! The 2003 Da Xue Shan is at the low-ish end of acceptable occasional drinker tea. It’s quite touchy for getting a delicious session- if too much leaf or steeped with an overly heavy hand it becomes astringent woody brackish. Sometimes the session ends this way if you are pushing out long infusions. The 2004 Ai Lao can sometimes get a touch sour if steeped too heavy. The 2003 Rongshi Da Xue Shan Wild was actually <a href="https://teapals.com/products/2003-meng-ku-rong-shi-da-xue-shan-ye-sheng-brick">restocked</a> and the price doubled since I purchased it to only $0.24/g whereas the 2004 Ai Lao is $0.30. The Ai Lao is in my mind at least three times better! Great work on your sourcing TeasWeLike!<br /><br />The description on the TeasWeLike site seems like a half hearted endorsement though. It states, “ perhaps not as exciting as its southern counterparts, but an attractive and affordable example of aged puer nevertheless”. Can anyone answer me which Southern puerh offering on the TeasWeLike site is as cheap, as aged, and as engaging as this 2004 Ai Lao Natural Malaysian storage????? I will have a hard time not reordering this one!</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Peace</div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02736984697520031171noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693176331381554957.post-26117350375128290452023-11-26T21:54:00.004-08:002023-11-27T05:41:40.785-08:00Black Friday Puerh Purchases: The Hunter and the Hunted<p> <span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">I find the Black Friday/ Cyber Monday marketing of Western facing puerh vendors rather interesting. I had </span><a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/search?q=Black+Friday&m=1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">written about it for a few years in a row a few years back</a><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">. The last time I really paid attention to Black Friday puerh sales was probably the last time I actually purchased something from Black Friday which I believe was a cake of </span><a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2020/07/2020-tea-encounter-guafengzhai-gushu.html?m=1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">2020 Tea Encounter Guafengzhai Chaping Gushu</a><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">. The real reason is for the lack of attention is that I have actually purchased less puerh (good job!) and almost no fresh puerh over the last two years. The exception being this interesting </span><a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2023/09/2023-tea-encounter-douyishu-ascension.html?m=0" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">2023 Tea Encounter DuoYiShu</a><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"> there is only 2 cakes left, and it’s even on sale now and I can’t believe this is not sold out yet… for those interested in fresh puerh Black Friday Cyber Monday sales!</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Another reason I’ve not paid too much attention to Black Friday puerh sales is because the vendors I purchase the most from don’t even have Black Friday /Cyber Monday sales! I mentioned that TeasWeLike is my hands down favourite purerh vendor - they don’t entertain sales at all and are pretty straightforward in their marketing for which I put 100% trust in them. </div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">It might be surprising to some that Puerh.uk has increasingly and incrementally gained my trust since re-launching over two years. I now openly consider them my second favourite puerh vendor. It shouldn’t be too much of a surprise considering it’s been the vendor I have frequented the second most in the past two years. Just like I’ve said before I have not tried a puerh from them that I have not enjoyed on some level- I have never received a bad puerh from them, they have all been good. In fact, quite the opposite, some of the best cakes I own have come from Puerh.uk. When I purchased these favourite puerh cakes years ago they were just languishing on his poor site for weeks. Paolo owner of Puerh.uk had to build some trust and he has.</div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">A few years ago, right away, there were a few things I really liked about Puerh.uk. The first is that it shook up the English facing puerh market and offered some aggressive competition (mainly to TeasWeLike). Competition is usually a good thing and I think Puerh.uk has proven this by now. Another cool thing I liked about Puerh.uk is that they were bringing in single acquired tongs from collectors and selling them off by the cake, quarter cake, 25g and 7g samples. The other vendors out there are really not focused on hunting down puerh on such a small scale for market due to a variety of factors. Over the last few years Paolo has forged a closer relationship with some of these collectors. One such collector, I have referred to him here on the blog as <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2023/01/2003-2007-chen-yuan-hao-ranking.html?m=1">“old man” has particularly satisfying puerh storage conditions with his hot dry Taiwanese stored puerh.</a> As such I have acquired a decent amount of puerh from said “Old Man”. </div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">As part of a promotion this week, Puerh.uk is offering a two tier buy-in to be the first to purchase some limited supplies of cakes that won’t be immediately offered to the public. It’s marketed as TCE2 and as the site states:</div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><a href="https://puerh.uk/taiwan-collector-experience-squared/"><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-size: 16px;">Why this mechanism? We like to </span><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-size: 16px;">reward loyalty</span><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-size: 16px;"> and although we will continue to do public releases for some teas, the </span><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-size: 16px;">TCE² teas would likely sell out immediately</span><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-size: 16px;"> (because they’re both limited quantity and exceptionally high price/quality), so we prefer for these to go to our most loyal customers, the ones that are happy to trust us the most.</span></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">My first reaction to this whole thing is that it really reeks of marketing. I despise the idea that access is only offered to those with money to get in the gate. It goes against the competitive argument for Puerh.uk. But they do have a point because old man storage 2004 ChenYuan Son Pin Hao sat on the site for weeks so did the rare 2003 ChenYuan Hao Yibang now some things sell out really fast these days. But aren’t I one of Paolo’s most loyal customers???!</div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">There is one cake (and people who have been into puerh for a long time will know it) it’s that 2006 Chen-He Guang Tang Yiwu Chawang. It hooked me… but wait I’m not buying that stupid membership selling out my soul thing… then Paolo tells me the three cakes in the hunter tier are all from no other than old man’s storage…. I picked up some of that famous 2006 Chen-He Guang Tang Yiwu Chawang and the 2014 ChengShunHao Xigui… (looks like there is still one left) … I guess the hunter has become the hunted? Hahahaha</div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Peace</div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" />Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02736984697520031171noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693176331381554957.post-31843695727185377802023-11-24T19:21:00.007-08:002023-11-24T19:21:43.980-08:002003 CNNP Yellow Mark: Red Rose Tea Puerh!<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt-MpcpbovzgRVTr-rhWHfm9FoLD56n1C-9GkR3O6uvfTcq0nPtPqOrMeqBpDqHcpidodmWPgIJPagVIu2i0dLRQTCEZamI41OGATbQ1t3bHskiADnOXuHkrHmJCV69MG2PZHbWuftBEPRiUBJjP7aRvo6D86H-xvrjPlE6YGRN5u3aZwfvu1Bx_eTyvA/s4032/IMG_5710.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt-MpcpbovzgRVTr-rhWHfm9FoLD56n1C-9GkR3O6uvfTcq0nPtPqOrMeqBpDqHcpidodmWPgIJPagVIu2i0dLRQTCEZamI41OGATbQ1t3bHskiADnOXuHkrHmJCV69MG2PZHbWuftBEPRiUBJjP7aRvo6D86H-xvrjPlE6YGRN5u3aZwfvu1Bx_eTyvA/s320/IMG_5710.jpeg" width="240" /></a></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">This 2003 CNNP Yellow Mark was the first to be released as an individual cake from the </span><a href="https://teaswelike.com/product/colours-of-malaysia-quarter-cake-set/">Colours of Malaysia Quarter Cake Set</a> at TeasWeLike. The <a href="https://teaswelike.com/product/2003-cnnp-yellow-mark-malaysian-natural-storage/">357g cake goes for $ 225.00 for or $0.63/g</a>. I’m wondering if it was my favourite from the set…</p><p></p><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><div><br /></div>Dry leaves have a very faint floral woody.</div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">First infusion has a grains cereal sweet watery taste with a sweet corn finish. The is a dry roof feeling in the mouth. </div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Second has a roasted almost black tea note with very faint floral and cereal, almost raisin sweetness. The mouthfeel is a bit fine sandy and vacuous with an open throat feeling. Has an almost melon juicy fruity taste that is not really there. </div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Third infusion has a floral black tea raisin taste tastes like Red Rose brand tea that you find at any grocery store here. Bland vacuous sandy mouthfeel. Floral finish on the breath. </div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">The fourth is a woody teak sort of black tea note rose floral. Nice roasty rich body but really does taste a bit like black tea or maybe Mengku area blend? Nice calming slowness to the qi. </div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">The fifth is a woody teak rich black tea Red Rose. Nice woods richness. The Qi is this really nice quiet calm slows the mind a bit and a bit spacy calm it’s nice the combo of the classic throwback Red arose tea makes it a comforting afternoon delight for my soul.</div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">The sixth is put into an overnight thermos. I try some from the thermos a few hours later and it’s this black tea slight floral rich tasting puerh. The floral tastes really builds and has this rich almost black tea woody background which feels real full and satisfying.</div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">The next day the liquor is woody resinous slight oily sweet.</div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCYDli5UlADEM-QrYnvN3beRvvi7-PjumKv1h_1ph4iQKUFH5_u3sItHrIxZCkwN2cz4tThx9wvKVDEA_S0kDlikSKXaS_hrldJikYZORhZhgK5qeJeaMb63gEkZLM3ba13CuXlZFSxOfWre5kLFGeLt4N7sLSVUKSECpXQopoSALjpZd8WQx04gumNcA/s4032/IMG_5712.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCYDli5UlADEM-QrYnvN3beRvvi7-PjumKv1h_1ph4iQKUFH5_u3sItHrIxZCkwN2cz4tThx9wvKVDEA_S0kDlikSKXaS_hrldJikYZORhZhgK5qeJeaMb63gEkZLM3ba13CuXlZFSxOfWre5kLFGeLt4N7sLSVUKSECpXQopoSALjpZd8WQx04gumNcA/s320/IMG_5712.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">I put all four of the spent leaves from the Colours of Malaysia Quarter Cake set in a long overnight steeping (wet leaves top left clockwise in order they appear on the blog)… The Red label is still quite juicy oily and thickly sweet with smoke balance. The Blue Label was maybe the most balanced of the four offering woody, sweet, slight incense taste. The FuYuanChang offered a relatively light sweet taste with charcoal and incense balance. The Yellow label had a sweet woody resin taste. It’s hard to pick favourites here instead of ordering a single cake I’d probably just buy another quarter cake set. In fact, I recommend it!</div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Peace</div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" />Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02736984697520031171noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693176331381554957.post-62769215318925100362023-11-21T21:29:00.001-08:002023-11-22T16:45:35.925-08:002004 Yao’an FuYuanChang Yiwu: Malaysian Factory Smoker<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKM4mEemWpQ_ZXT-_aqT114SqCGq62hyphenhyphen21k2iN_Yc5-T-Himdd3NqoMTc7DsLWBluj6NnVQI3-DzYamu3TpcejC5FFH0wBBmS9fJMfaFv0haUauXVCFLGrhba9BWQpuAH3t0KTY6WNyfkRlVsMxlb-6hoQeKfV2p8JPjzfLoyyb9tOtRN1D2Ie9KJLd8c/s4032/IMG_5706.jpeg" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKM4mEemWpQ_ZXT-_aqT114SqCGq62hyphenhyphen21k2iN_Yc5-T-Himdd3NqoMTc7DsLWBluj6NnVQI3-DzYamu3TpcejC5FFH0wBBmS9fJMfaFv0haUauXVCFLGrhba9BWQpuAH3t0KTY6WNyfkRlVsMxlb-6hoQeKfV2p8JPjzfLoyyb9tOtRN1D2Ie9KJLd8c/s320/IMG_5706.jpeg" width="240" /></a></p><p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">I actually sampled this <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2022/10/marcos-2022-blind-sample-2.html?m=1">2004 FuYuanChang Yiwu in a blind sampling from Marco last year</a>. I understood it well even as a blind sampling but it also piqued my curiosity as to what the other cakes in the <a href="https://teaswelike.com/product/colours-of-malaysia-quarter-cake-set/">Colours of Malaysia Sample Set</a> might be like? So I finally ended up purchasing a set! After finishing these notes I went back and read my blind notes from last year on this same puerh and they are much better! Haha! Part of it simply speaks to how my evaluative sessions at work have gone downhill a bit but mainly it also speaks to the superiority of blind sampling. There is something about blind sampling that really dials you into a session…</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;" /><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Dry leaves have a woody faint odour.<div><br /></div><div>First infusion has a watery sweet talc cherry with a faint woody body. Watery mouthfeeling with faint incense smoke in the distance. Long sweet candy is left on the breath.</div><div><br /></div><div>Second infusion has a rich woody oily almost bitter coco taste there are some resin woody notes in there. The mouthfeel has tightened up. There is significant incense ash smoke. Some throat simulations with slight drying mouthfeel. Strong alerting energy.</div><div><br /></div><div>Third infusion is left to cool and gives off a rich woody bitter-sweet incense smoke. Silty a bit dry coating. Strong energetic feeling. Some almost cinnamon spice in the woody not that sweet finish. There is that talc powdery sweetness lingering throughout.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2X6CtdgAdmwKRVXEeVxC5fYiB5eC7XDYiooM2tAg1B71owWhegYuJmI6CN2b9rfUO4FwER7ESq1Pwgzl9y9yzzUItP8rhrf70QjRzvWikzRx8wEpXskiYR5iWLNDPVrzNME58iKhOx2quoWkc7Md5iMRz3w9JQicLKII0eh3QEMAEb_ZNMK4BmWffaK4/s4032/IMG_5707.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2X6CtdgAdmwKRVXEeVxC5fYiB5eC7XDYiooM2tAg1B71owWhegYuJmI6CN2b9rfUO4FwER7ESq1Pwgzl9y9yzzUItP8rhrf70QjRzvWikzRx8wEpXskiYR5iWLNDPVrzNME58iKhOx2quoWkc7Md5iMRz3w9JQicLKII0eh3QEMAEb_ZNMK4BmWffaK4/s320/IMG_5707.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>4th is left to cool and gives off a sweet woody incense taste not as bitter but woody incense. It has a creamy cherry talc powdery faintly underneath. Qi is a bit spacy in the mind but mainly moderatly energetic.</div><div><br /></div><div>5th is left to cool and gives off watery sweet woody almost floral sweet taste. Smoke incense is substantial. Subtle mind spacy and mildly energetic. Silty almost sandy feeling in the mouth.</div><div><br /></div><div>6th is put into an overnight thermos and sipping from it a few hours later there is lots of smoky char with slight dry gripping mouthfeel. Some sweetness tries to push through but can’t push past the smoke.</div><div><br /></div><div>So far, early on here, this is one is winning the speed test out of the tasting set.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://mgualt.com/tealog/2022/08/06/2004-yaoan-fuyuanchang/"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4wb4hHyPmLYRXsWpRnBxziCVmZ2XhC_LITTA8UNuCApZe5S49v_UYD9e-iTqZ4gJt6PkVE9YJi9DSyLxTudnGeeny3Liuxe9BrU46a4E4VRZELPkfBe-nqYWx4RFhySVZiReqNtrUKEvp1pvZN1_eQOfgiPFwOgD_67mte53_X_4U4VfIzlTElbD5i_o/s320/IMG_5709.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><a href="https://mgualt.com/tealog/2022/08/06/2004-yaoan-fuyuanchang/"><br />Marco’s (Late Steeps) Tasting notes</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Peace </div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" />Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02736984697520031171noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693176331381554957.post-90423991243897115822023-11-21T20:23:00.000-08:002023-11-21T20:23:38.396-08:002004 CNNP Red Mark: Rustic Sweat Heat Mesquite<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ1vnte0kyhXrXRd7RdrtBevfVgpQOQl-87BBVa70JoKyOt0bLW8i0NnqmR_ApzOfW6MnaAQ7d4Y7g5qfIKE9rJIMcFxIj7tOCHYYrSeFKWI90uOQ0KFlPLEzfkmRQdeabjTK2hN_0jeCpwrWOBt6kmKcvoOX23MN_Wy_3OLe5ZMG6eqqR8gHm4d6yIUc/s4032/IMG_5679.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ1vnte0kyhXrXRd7RdrtBevfVgpQOQl-87BBVa70JoKyOt0bLW8i0NnqmR_ApzOfW6MnaAQ7d4Y7g5qfIKE9rJIMcFxIj7tOCHYYrSeFKWI90uOQ0KFlPLEzfkmRQdeabjTK2hN_0jeCpwrWOBt6kmKcvoOX23MN_Wy_3OLe5ZMG6eqqR8gHm4d6yIUc/s320/IMG_5679.jpeg" width="240" /></a></p><p><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">This 2004 CNNP Red Label is a part of the <a href="https://teaswelike.com/product/colours-of-malaysia-quarter-cake-set/">Colours of Malaysia Quarter Cake Set from TeasWeLike</a>. I sampled the <a href="http://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2023/11/2005-cnnp-blue-mark-interesting-enough.html?m=1">2005 CNNP Blue Mark</a> yesterday and it was a pretty satisfying easy to drink puerh and very different from this…</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br />Dry leaves smell of dry woody almost roasted aroma.<div><br /></div><div>Wet leaves have a sweet mesquite smoky odour.<br /><div><br /></div><div>First infusion has a Smokey woody incense- pretty strong smoke with a light plum sweetness to counterbalance the smoke. Overall moistening mouthfeel with fine sand silt.</div><div><br /></div><div>Second has a sweet mouthwatering plum taste with mesquite BBQ smoky background. Smoke but not charred. Warming Qi makes me sweat. Mouthwatering with warm chest feeling some head beats but lots of heat making me sweat it out! Armpits face and chest strong heat.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio5VqN6JyhnwTQ5aneYVwozEtrCkr9CxO8ylROC_W9vBCI8fQDkewhwKZBoGV7QLjKCqvxpIcZGNub8o-o7uUE1PV1-_t-IPaRhp5Av8UvTlwzg-5fWq3ERjdH5u2ek8YbPwJ9DUwbGPEuUcz4UMqaCp5K5GqI9Ls1FXjM10QmKfvW-gmRu6O6UjG_Yk0/s4032/IMG_5680.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio5VqN6JyhnwTQ5aneYVwozEtrCkr9CxO8ylROC_W9vBCI8fQDkewhwKZBoGV7QLjKCqvxpIcZGNub8o-o7uUE1PV1-_t-IPaRhp5Av8UvTlwzg-5fWq3ERjdH5u2ek8YbPwJ9DUwbGPEuUcz4UMqaCp5K5GqI9Ls1FXjM10QmKfvW-gmRu6O6UjG_Yk0/s320/IMG_5680.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>3rd is a balance of mesquite BBQ smoke and plum sweetness with the smoke starting to take over the sweet now. Lubricating mouthfeel with fine silty sandy feeling. Warming strong sweats. </div><div><br /></div><div>4th is left to cool and has a sweet plum onset with a strong smoke background. Strong warming qi especially targets the face and chest. You will sweat. Smooth silty fine sandy mouthfeeling.</div><div><br /></div><div>5th is left to cool and has a plum sweet onset that is quickly overtaken by smoke. Warming break into a sweat Qi with some energetic feeling. Mouthfeel is getting more sandy in the mouth. This is classic rustic puerh stuff.</div><div><br /></div><div>6th cooled is a smooth plum with mouthwatering sweet taste and feel with some fine grain sand. Warming qi nature with nice uplifting feeling. <br /><br />7th was put into an overnight thermos steeping. It comes out very sweet viscus creamy plum almost candy which fills the mouth with the thick viscus mouthwatering mouthfeeling. The smoke is gone and there is a subtle background incense now at the end of the long sweet thick taste. The sweet taste in this overnight thermos reminds me of a candy apple very delicious here.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfmTFsRJTSXdatwapYdcNaR7gddye2KINVSmZSZTmXeNl0XNwtZYFeECa5lqbexbKxsy9r-7CEtUftrTOe1JAl4VvxaOFGoNoYCYZRQipumw8CdsbIygM_mhL6yNEUXVCWAWvfGE4MxhvsY2DZNZkF0YfrwEB3qJ-SH9gcHkYYjWslpNdZriS1CqIGgqQ/s4032/IMG_5693.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfmTFsRJTSXdatwapYdcNaR7gddye2KINVSmZSZTmXeNl0XNwtZYFeECa5lqbexbKxsy9r-7CEtUftrTOe1JAl4VvxaOFGoNoYCYZRQipumw8CdsbIygM_mhL6yNEUXVCWAWvfGE4MxhvsY2DZNZkF0YfrwEB3qJ-SH9gcHkYYjWslpNdZriS1CqIGgqQ/s320/IMG_5693.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Overall, this is a nice example of a smoky but very sweet rustic puerh. The session progresses with smoke dominating the first few steeps then the sweetness builds up as the session goes on before completely overtaking the smoky rustic taste leaving us with a sweet end to the session with longing for childhood candy apples. Most old school rustic puerh end to Smokey or not enough sweet to counterbalance puerh with the smoke wining at the end of the session. This one sweet wins! It should also be noted the powerful hot warming Qi that really makes you sweat!</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCP2gmCmo-Rk_SIhiWbMKHWL4nwW2arln3Zdx-XWL_DsecFQ_qmlXkCZ-VO8jWxVdKyJ1eqU7ikT_mVK6yBEOQ4I7lDKM08IiHWH0qiqkXm5-dyOKQSwZV-rcNbXBsAQnwWCiPht5_eQZoj3j6Ye3lgJJbwU6Hy7t4LEY4BcuU-PfybrauBatOByuzqC8/s4032/IMG_5703.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCP2gmCmo-Rk_SIhiWbMKHWL4nwW2arln3Zdx-XWL_DsecFQ_qmlXkCZ-VO8jWxVdKyJ1eqU7ikT_mVK6yBEOQ4I7lDKM08IiHWH0qiqkXm5-dyOKQSwZV-rcNbXBsAQnwWCiPht5_eQZoj3j6Ye3lgJJbwU6Hy7t4LEY4BcuU-PfybrauBatOByuzqC8/s320/IMG_5703.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Vs<a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2020/03/2006-rustic-zhongcha-from-teas-we-like.html?m=1">2006 Rustic Zhongcha from TeasWeLike</a>- (wet leaves bottom) I sampled this one the next day as it is somewhat similar both are Rustic blends both Zhongcha generic brand both dry Mayalsian stored. The rustic Zhongcha seems drier stored (Malaysian dry storage vs Malaysian dry Natural storage) with the leaves lighter and dry leaves smell more cherry sweet. The liquid is much lighter as well. There is more of a delicate higher quality to the material of the Rustic Zhongcha with more separate taste. The Rustic Zhongcha has a more pronounced coolness camphor with more seporate sweet cherry plum taste. The mouthfeel has a mild astringent gripping whereas the Red Label has more silty fullness. The Rustic is more complex overall but has much more delicate flavours. Where as the Red Label has much stronger and forward tastes, dense, rich tastes, more cohesive tastes and mainly stronger tastes. The sweetness of the Red Mark is so strong and overtakes the smoke at the end of the session whereas the Rustic Zhongcha shows its complex dry storage at the end! The strong warming Qi of the red Label is notable and stronger than the Rustic whereas the Rustic has more complex subtle Qi comparatively. They are quite different afterall Rustic with better quality materials and dry storage subtly and Red label with more dense strong power…. But mainly sweetness!</div><div><br /></div><div>Peace</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02736984697520031171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693176331381554957.post-55873762096174809472023-11-20T22:40:00.001-08:002023-11-20T22:40:23.972-08:00Single Gongfu Cha Session Lasts A Week<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfuKGuaCqiACiqnG-iIsAXir2TTGhbxfabaSmKUTPXgaI3NlLqvU_bj40rmGXswLhM5ZGRscznHYc2cnMzLn4_ylGbSah_W-kLRd9od0jtlAKBmRBAxS9QZKAzwqZgduUquECMw7ZHMpG8bkU9m4SsCktMXphzagvJLcZ9rdCjmFGHWCYeVDcm2W7s2so/s4032/IMG_5514.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfuKGuaCqiACiqnG-iIsAXir2TTGhbxfabaSmKUTPXgaI3NlLqvU_bj40rmGXswLhM5ZGRscznHYc2cnMzLn4_ylGbSah_W-kLRd9od0jtlAKBmRBAxS9QZKAzwqZgduUquECMw7ZHMpG8bkU9m4SsCktMXphzagvJLcZ9rdCjmFGHWCYeVDcm2W7s2so/s320/IMG_5514.jpeg" width="320" /></a></p><p> I was recently asked exactly the specifics of how I am stretching my puerh sessions across a week. So I thought I would just elaborate in a post. I suppose it is quite unusual and, I believe, a product of my own invention. The basis of the week long session is that I am using some basic concepts of gongfu cha brewing ,which I’ve been doing for decades now, and applying it to my novel life situation…</p><p>Why exactly would you want to steep a puerh across an entire week rather than just drink it in one sitting? The short answer is really you would not want to do this. I would much prefer sitting cross legged on the floor at my charcoal fired hearth and drinking an hours long session in ceremony while meditating and taking in the full vibe of the tea. If you go far enough back in this blog that’s exactly what I am doing there. Having young children pretty much wrecks this vibe. If you only have one child it’s still kind of possible to do proper gongfu cha when they are at certain ages. I used to wake up early and do so years back. Having as many children like I have here now, it’s impossible.</p><p>For years now I have had my tea table set up right in the heart of the kitchen counter so I can brew facing out to everyone. The kids sort of interact with my session today my toddler wanted to sniff my puerh mug which she undoubtedly learned from watching me gongfu brew. Anyways, the mornings when I drink tea have just gotten progressively crazier and crazier with each passing year and I have found my self gravitating to larger and larger Yixing pots. I don’t measure them exactly but first it was 275ML, then I got one a few years ago that is probably 400ML, the last one I got a few months back is maybe 600 ML? Playing around trying to steep many times in a super small pot is just too distracting and more work. When you have a bunch of kids you have really hacked it if you mainly just keep it simple. A year or so my large glass fair cup that I had for over a decade broke (any suggestions wear I can find a replacement?) so I just started to pour directly from my yixing pots directly into the mug. I usually choose the colour I’m in the mood for and pour into these <a href="https://www.lecreuset.ca/en_CA/classic-mug/CA-70317.html">Classic Le Creuset mug</a>s which really hold the heat in nicely. I still pour into some small ceramic cups on the tea table at anytime during the week long sessions if I want to do shots to get a better concentrated read on a tea anytime throughout the session. </p><p>The tea table setup is basically a front row of these 3 Larger yixing pots, back row of a large mug and smaller gongfu ceramic cups. I snapped this picture of the display case in the kitchen and you can see it a bit. I used an extra large white ceramic cappuccino mug for the largest pot and Classic Creuset mugs for the other two pots. The mugs often sitting off the bamboo tea table and I use a handy tea shammy to wipe away any spillage. Often I will have two weekly sessions going at once.</p><p>The xtra large yixing I might use 40g of puerh leaves. Again I’m not sure because I don’t measure but when they open up they often fill the pot. You can imagine these larger pots have a slower pour so they really push the dry leaf pretty hard. They also will loose less heat than a smaller pot as well. First I'm just doing flash steeping directly into the mug. I often use a technique called “keeping the root” whereby you always leave a 1/5 of the liquid in the mug before pouring another flash steeping into the mug. If I want I increase the steeping time as needed.</p><p>You can imagine that I’m not having too many steepings each morning - sometimes just one others a handful. Then I just simply put my bamboo table back up into the display case there with the pots and cups and with the mugs if they are still holding the root. This keeps the kids from playing around with my hundred dollar pots… haha. The next day I just pull the bamboo table down from the display case and step the leaves that were left in the pot without water on them overnight. Ideally the pots would go in a fridge but again it would be too easy for someone to accidentally break a pot in the fridge. This goes on for days until the tea leaves are sufficiently spent then I leave the boiling water on them in the pot overnight to push the last of it out. I find that this style of brewing let’s you really reflect on the steepings of the week long session that you had that particular day and how it compared to the days before. It’s like a full on slow motion style of gongfu cha. It’s also a pretty heavy handed way of brewing which usually does aged tea well.</p><p>Peace</p>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02736984697520031171noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693176331381554957.post-56076960872122112742023-11-19T22:57:00.002-08:002023-11-27T13:58:34.443-08:002005 CNNP Blue Mark: Interesting Enough Complexities <p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi908Ab00a80thPfZ7UoO-kqlNO0Pga7G8uZ5Oer7Rln-I2Kh2WAJ0XT78ELC8i2nr5RXbW0yfTe2BYtMIvcM9LpuEDqPYwGm-8FQyyru5lJNE3gefaqTzz6Z1-A5z_BYooThkb9d-HwHJszyirDvSa3HTUMJbxloOjZ-h6E4qjSa5h1fALZ1rvHxbJkbo/s4032/IMG_5675.jpeg" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi908Ab00a80thPfZ7UoO-kqlNO0Pga7G8uZ5Oer7Rln-I2Kh2WAJ0XT78ELC8i2nr5RXbW0yfTe2BYtMIvcM9LpuEDqPYwGm-8FQyyru5lJNE3gefaqTzz6Z1-A5z_BYooThkb9d-HwHJszyirDvSa3HTUMJbxloOjZ-h6E4qjSa5h1fALZ1rvHxbJkbo/s320/IMG_5675.jpeg" width="240" /><br /></a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span></p><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">This 2005 CNNP Blue Mark is from the a Malaysian Dry Natural Storage <a href="https://teaswelike.com/product/colours-of-malaysia-quarter-cake-set/">Colours of Malaysia Quarter Cake Set from TeasWeLike</a>. It also is being <a href="https://teaswelike.com/product/2003-cnnp-blue-mark-malaysian-natural-storage/"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://teaswelike.com/product/2003-cnnp-blue-mark-malaysian-natural-storage/"></a><a href="https://teaswelike.com/product/2003-cnnp-blue-mark-malaysian-natural-storage/" style="text-align: left;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; display: inline;"><a href="https://teaswelike.com/product/2003-cnnp-blue-mark-malaysian-natural-storage/" style="text-align: left;"></a><a href="https://teaswelike.com/product/2003-cnnp-blue-mark-malaysian-natural-storage/" style="text-align: left;">offered as a stand alone 357g cakes for $188.00 or $0.52/g</a><span style="text-align: left;">. I found it a bit unique, complex, and interesting.</span></div></div></span><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dry leaf has a dry distant woody odour and seems to be cover in a fine white dust I’m not sure if it’s the wrapper or mould? Either way doesn’t stop me…<div><br /></div><div>First infusion has a creamy sweet watery almost woody taste in a wet mouthfeel. There is a faint powdery talc creamy sweetness throughout. The mouthfeel is wet but has a bit of fine silty dryness.</div><div><br /></div><div>Second has a woody teak woody onset with a creamy sweet layer underneath. The sweetness is the talc creamy almost cherry. The sweetness returns almost grape and the mouthfeel has a bit of pucker but very faintly. Nice grape sweetness into the throat. There is a silty mouthfeel and open throat. With a stick roof and gums. Nice slowing Qi.</div><div><br /></div><div>Third infusion has a woody creamy talc sweetness with a silty gripping mouthfeel. There are subtle almost trap sweet notes when swallowing in the throat. Senses are a touch more sensitive with a bit of slow motion Qi.</div><div><br /></div><div>Fourth infusion has a bit of a smoky woody watery onset with less talc sweetness hardly any now. There is a bit of bitterness and a flatter slight gripping mouthfeel. Teeth, gums, roof feel squeaky dry. A bit sense enhancing. </div><div><br /></div><div>5th has a water woody slight talc creamy sweetness. There is a silty dry mouthfeel with a bit gripping. I take a sigh with subtle soft sense enhancements.</div><div><br /></div><div>6th is a watery talc woody creamy sweet. Dry woody slight sweet finish. Dry silty finish. Deep sighs with visual acuity heightened. </div><div><br /></div><div>7th is a good 30 min steeping. It comes out woody and silty not sweet not bitter but smooth with a faint incense finish.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDR1d3c8FadY0tQHlMcK6mVJgNGIftb7VFhaFXfvOpF_KIari-gSGahpBoxytJGxRbn0bZA5PsuRG-qJbufI_71XRPf3hfcWZTU5iAHXCWU7sdbHYjzp_d8XeuF-WnddVhpQfImFPRjQ_7vrEl5onyge-P7hkdCEXlbwtOGH9o4shZS6FqBURUJZL3-nM/s4032/IMG_5692.jpeg" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDR1d3c8FadY0tQHlMcK6mVJgNGIftb7VFhaFXfvOpF_KIari-gSGahpBoxytJGxRbn0bZA5PsuRG-qJbufI_71XRPf3hfcWZTU5iAHXCWU7sdbHYjzp_d8XeuF-WnddVhpQfImFPRjQ_7vrEl5onyge-P7hkdCEXlbwtOGH9o4shZS6FqBURUJZL3-nM/s320/IMG_5692.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>8th is an overnight Thermos steeping and is oily slippery with a viscous sweetness and subtle woody taste. The sweetness has a sugary almost pastry taste to it. Nice an oily feeling.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJLKYRCY25urMBSmULx43EzrtGHk9OsY0-sQsH6jbvNVciEDKVd6m_08nYwuOcx9dxkKjjWwBxHAsscHy_sh81nu9JJ4DgimetmcOMiKOeCo2vBKC7sh-FJ1W43XlwTv44NuS0q1Ehl1vpwhVPqvNxd2yKCxC2L_vnQ4KgoGBnxDrjKBXfiYrYNAn-yOY/s4032/IMG_5676.jpeg" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJLKYRCY25urMBSmULx43EzrtGHk9OsY0-sQsH6jbvNVciEDKVd6m_08nYwuOcx9dxkKjjWwBxHAsscHy_sh81nu9JJ4DgimetmcOMiKOeCo2vBKC7sh-FJ1W43XlwTv44NuS0q1Ehl1vpwhVPqvNxd2yKCxC2L_vnQ4KgoGBnxDrjKBXfiYrYNAn-yOY/s320/IMG_5676.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>This is pretty easy to drink with a nice smoothness to it and Qi that is much better than standard factory fare. It has a bit of mind slowing and sense enhancements Qi. The mouthfeel is really good with four different stimulations playing out in the mouth- squeaky gums and roof, silty texture, and nice mouthwatering oily viscus and some mild throat gripping stimulating. The sweetness is similarly complex with a talc creamy sweetness, grape like returning sweetness and a pastry sugar sweetness in the overnight steepings. The thickness and pastry taste reminds me of ManZhuan. For the price this interesting blend has lots to offer and I had a great time with it! Thinking about testing out a full cake in the speed test.</div><div><br /></div><div>Edit Nov27/23: I had this one a few weeks later and it has this nice bitter coco and lubricating feeling. It reminds me lots of <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2022/01/2005-dayi-7542-504-teaswelike-mid-aged.html?m=0">7542 504</a>… I should compare these.</div><div><br /></div><div>Peace</div></div></div></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" />Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02736984697520031171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693176331381554957.post-6495311096044247362023-11-18T21:55:00.000-08:002023-11-18T21:55:07.452-08:002001 Red Ribbon (First Release Storage Option) vs Natural Malaysian Storage (Second Release Storage Option) <p> <span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0BEjtOxrqhyFSMmh55G7Zena-nGB32KVPLS6t4WuJtHEZNDYWWsz_62gGiAOMAe40UEh4vUSUbIZUdQhokU4cy3s5TCU7yxPL_C8e9CMPVFX9cx9zvxmvyvQytMJikrnvM-XsJoiX8impghCv3ihbcqxz084M7KmUsIUuDlQuBWRoZ5mzUjRA70eeOb8/s4032/IMG_5609.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"> <img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0BEjtOxrqhyFSMmh55G7Zena-nGB32KVPLS6t4WuJtHEZNDYWWsz_62gGiAOMAe40UEh4vUSUbIZUdQhokU4cy3s5TCU7yxPL_C8e9CMPVFX9cx9zvxmvyvQytMJikrnvM-XsJoiX8impghCv3ihbcqxz084M7KmUsIUuDlQuBWRoZ5mzUjRA70eeOb8/s320/IMG_5609.jpeg" width="240" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggViLBQWioE9M-fWy_NICskcqFAbEkC8rRzJk2mUHcYk4Xv8MpH0XpYNBWK02n83j1S6Or1vaG9tEOE5k-kddVN_nGi_iCF5-cyPtCOQEdJdirmO_4dQo_J9Hj_LcqQ5eburIGMmdpBRN3ecBR3-CvMM5czPFgOwq4HCTIlnvxk1KiBhm7HGhCxyaLuHM/s4032/IMG_5610.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggViLBQWioE9M-fWy_NICskcqFAbEkC8rRzJk2mUHcYk4Xv8MpH0XpYNBWK02n83j1S6Or1vaG9tEOE5k-kddVN_nGi_iCF5-cyPtCOQEdJdirmO_4dQo_J9Hj_LcqQ5eburIGMmdpBRN3ecBR3-CvMM5czPFgOwq4HCTIlnvxk1KiBhm7HGhCxyaLuHM/s320/IMG_5610.jpeg" width="240" /></a></p><p><br /></p><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><div dir="ltr">There is a bit of confusion coming from TeasWeLike about the storage options on this solid 2001 Red Ribbon. So I’m going to give it a try here…</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">I believe this is the first storage option offered on this <a href="https://teaswelike.com/product/2001-red-ribbon/">2001 Red Ribbon ($188.00 for 357g cake or $0.53/g)</a> from TeasWeLike. This first 2001 Red Ribbon storage offering sold out reasonably fast when it was first offered, I believe, after a favourable review on TeaDB. It took a long while to restock.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">I purchased and reviewed the second storage option of this cake two years ago. Initially it was described on the site as a Natural Malaysian stored cake and it’s really did mainly have this vibe. However, later it was revealed that it was stored in Hongkong the first 5 years the same as the first storage option/offering but was then stored in more dry stored Malaysian conditions for 15 years vs the first option which was more humidly stored. I am a bit surprised that the “<a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2022/01/2001-red-ribbon-natural-malaysian.html?m=1">2001 Red Ribbon Natural Malaysian Storage”</a> had Hongkong storage on it as well. I think this cake had this very present teak woody resin taste to it that I define as very strong Natural Malaysian character. Looking back at my notes there are also nutty notes that are often found in HongKong storage. Interestingly the wetter cake is quite different…<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br /></div>First infusion has a woody dirt almond nut taste. Nutty almost metallic taste with a slippery slight drying mouthfeeling and faint coolness in the breath. </div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Second infusion has a woody but mainly nutty taste of almonds. There is some lesser dirt taste but nice strong rich nutty taste. Some faint cooling with a slight dry mouthfeel. </div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Third infusion is left to cool and has a rich woody nutty dirt taste with an almost slippery but mainly sticky dry mouthfeeling. Full mouthfeel. Deep chesty feeling with alertness and heart beats. Overall rich aged feeling.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Fouth infusion has a woody nutty dirt taste. Nice mouth watering feeling with a slight dry gripping slippery feel with very faint cool breath.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">5th is a nutty woody dirt. There is some sweet returning taste. Stick dry mouthfeeling. Strong mind alerting and warming qi.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">6th has a watery woody sweet taste less nutty now and less dirt the mouthfeel is at first watery/slippery but becomes dry gripping. Faint cool breath. Warming face qi with some deep heart beats and energetic feeling. </div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">7th is put into a long thermos steeping and gives off a sweet slightly syrupy woody dirt rich taste with a subtle talc sweet cherry returning sweetness. There is a bit of bitter gripping feeling but not overwhelming which gives it presence in the mouth. Chest beats with energetic feeling.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><a href=" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7TKf8nOdsTs" style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfjkFP5pwVggFzAFIqSkXCjU7Ux6k_tpliQoKnVdIe-PohUHcyY3X71zXxjHaSDS10N-90DbuNtYXHQWEVyU_MAaG8gxfEapm5yNlCn1KNh9-xVrGfF18ga87aeDosRut6SBMlPTFOD0YRFAlM58nIhTU9MessVq3bua6n_vjnJyx4OzEtOeHqpiXMn9A/s320/IMG_5673.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">8th is an overnight thermos and gives off a mainly sweet slightly woody dirt with a mild mouthwatering feeling.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><a href=" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7TKf8nOdsTs" style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcCK0pG0YHL5OPErwSQJ17_r0m13gxqMXH-yDkrHdT6PpKD01mkxhX_L6HJRxcm6C8R-xKVW1xn4MTzDrgvJ1LpfcNo0R-ZFp0_Gy5oW4ynWZQMOGAdwkj8oiCARblvY5DdGcXiWIQTmwB3PMOctHBfOD0Bc-HrjHAYVIrCWHGLMP8HgwX68T8ffa9mbg/s320/IMG_5674.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Vs <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2022/01/2001-red-ribbon-natural-malaysian.html?m=1">2001 Red Ribbon Natural Malaysian Storage</a>- is more teal woody resin with almost candy finish where the wetter storage bings out a lot of dirt tastes, nuttier tastes, not as woody, but more plum cherry talc sweetness. They are both pretty satisfying aged puerh and I don’t know which I would prefer… but I do know that the purity and straightforwardness of the woody teak flavour resin is something that I don’t have in the puerhs I have so I finished that cake in about a year … haha </div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href=" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7TKf8nOdsTs" style="text-align: left;">James and Denny’s (TeaDB) Tasting Notes</a></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Peace<br /></div></div></div></div></div></div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02736984697520031171noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693176331381554957.post-8118851001248124272023-11-17T22:36:00.003-08:002023-11-18T12:16:10.569-08:002006 Dragon Tea House Yiwu: Heartburn!<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWOcaoA8AQMrG3WCIJ5rdbUQICJWED3Q3iJZsG8vYQb6slSprfMbxSKJXwy5cBV3FSSEcVRixCSJYieFEtXBEvw3E8HJmsm4-QGTJmwSmLuq2EyDLQFyhg1ci2ZfZ2DCZq9YNQTrvxS9n4vFhFr_BuqqIZv_sLxPgckgolxQtwr6xezKeN4LdQsAF9740/s4032/IMG_2534.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWOcaoA8AQMrG3WCIJ5rdbUQICJWED3Q3iJZsG8vYQb6slSprfMbxSKJXwy5cBV3FSSEcVRixCSJYieFEtXBEvw3E8HJmsm4-QGTJmwSmLuq2EyDLQFyhg1ci2ZfZ2DCZq9YNQTrvxS9n4vFhFr_BuqqIZv_sLxPgckgolxQtwr6xezKeN4LdQsAF9740/s320/IMG_2534.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv_cZ7qDIyO8fTQ23fyaz61qebFjxSibCK-ZX1sg40dtICvnb4hbn9iWuLUkSShV1xATD8mFAdvpyL2eM5OGkyNItZ5zHA64qD-jNzl53zMUF3MnCdWNHN-1Ga9U4ePDijbfzI4hDk2Q9pw5NJurD1vB1Mu5kU2H_smzeOYy6YMSnkVw4R0q2kRoFhp8E/s4032/IMG_2536.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv_cZ7qDIyO8fTQ23fyaz61qebFjxSibCK-ZX1sg40dtICvnb4hbn9iWuLUkSShV1xATD8mFAdvpyL2eM5OGkyNItZ5zHA64qD-jNzl53zMUF3MnCdWNHN-1Ga9U4ePDijbfzI4hDk2Q9pw5NJurD1vB1Mu5kU2H_smzeOYy6YMSnkVw4R0q2kRoFhp8E/s320/IMG_2536.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3N8dq57HzX7JuNZ6WqYnzWfZJUd4rx-JBE2Sm8BKbtH16A3W3MRyYEQ_OikiHPX-i4sos4sMx1-G-3cHAPIPCWWdCoHHOLFpwa-Lh9IBnJLffBEBf6vz2L0lClTOaYUeJKSO5BZZiuYP4kQ44DrB5gx9ZCrPNN8OEiUjVWP4dzXWqtImnRn2ye8rcUDA/s4032/IMG_2535.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3N8dq57HzX7JuNZ6WqYnzWfZJUd4rx-JBE2Sm8BKbtH16A3W3MRyYEQ_OikiHPX-i4sos4sMx1-G-3cHAPIPCWWdCoHHOLFpwa-Lh9IBnJLffBEBf6vz2L0lClTOaYUeJKSO5BZZiuYP4kQ44DrB5gx9ZCrPNN8OEiUjVWP4dzXWqtImnRn2ye8rcUDA/s320/IMG_2535.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQRHClcshc-YZlOZfiSiXQA76mOpetlrIqgsGWPM7aadIUJFSuRulxtTQ8c10yvPcILUB4aQg0J0mnUyTILJ2JrNmS8kEd8agEMY5YB6cZJMj91DWO7qAHAUoZPQkKq7gqlqUKi7xIg7zLMrS43vWLYNa3zJa_oSIZu_v-0FN8SO5Av88Kx3hrsvXG8EE/s4032/IMG_2537.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQRHClcshc-YZlOZfiSiXQA76mOpetlrIqgsGWPM7aadIUJFSuRulxtTQ8c10yvPcILUB4aQg0J0mnUyTILJ2JrNmS8kEd8agEMY5YB6cZJMj91DWO7qAHAUoZPQkKq7gqlqUKi7xIg7zLMrS43vWLYNa3zJa_oSIZu_v-0FN8SO5Av88Kx3hrsvXG8EE/s320/IMG_2537.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p>This <a href="https://teaswelike.com/product/2006-dragon-tea-house-h-k-yiwu/">2006 Dragon Tea House Yiwu goes for $480 for 400g cake or $1.20/g</a>. It’s billed as a favourite of Dragon Tea House productions…</p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Calibri Regular"; font-size: 16px;">Dry leaves have a smokey with a sweet odour underneath.</span></p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px;"></span><span face="Calibri, "Segoe UI", Meiryo, "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"></span><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, "Segoe UI", Meiryo, "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">First infusion has a creamy oily rich expanding cooling sweetness. Nice oily creamy viscus taste. There is a bit of creamy sweetness that exapands in the returning taste then a finish of smoke. Nice relaxing focusing feeling.</span></p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px;"></span><span face="Calibri, "Segoe UI", Meiryo, "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"></span><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, "Segoe UI", Meiryo, "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">The second infusion has a creamy oily viscus sweetness with subtel hint of floral that expands as the cooling throat sensation takes hold. Nice smooth creamy buttery sweet taste with overall rich and deeply satisfying rich oily taste. Finish is a bit smoky but still creamy oily sweet. Very oily and rich presentation with smooth mouthfeeling and deep thoat opening and deep trapped saliva gob. Strong Wave of Qi wraps around me and makes my heart expand and vibrate. I feel very spacy and out of body with mind floating sensations. </span></p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px;"></span><span face="Calibri, "Segoe UI", Meiryo, "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"></span><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, "Segoe UI", Meiryo, "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">The third infusion has a rich woody resin smokey onset with some mouth and throat gripping a strong saliva producing feeling. Strong Qi pushes me into a sweat with face and head numb and spaced out feeling. The cooled down infusion has an almost melon floral creamy sweet onset with a touch of astringency and smoke. Nice saliva producing in the mouth and strong Qi.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, "Segoe UI", Meiryo, "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, "Segoe UI", Meiryo, "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-rzKfv3TkJw4HchLpsYs2OSRJ9HJCZvoINGyNx7WDEcSrUiejmr7tv9rpCNRT1uz_AbQx_0BPwLwZ8UFizcK5VZfXedhTj4B1uIgFlxTDYFWC46tkfBSsW_49-ChekZxDCRlU7CGQzQxLsYTUgFKrtXNnf0K4qjW_yAK_Pul6iAEl6SpSmmi-FCp6ung/s4032/IMG_2538.jpeg" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-rzKfv3TkJw4HchLpsYs2OSRJ9HJCZvoINGyNx7WDEcSrUiejmr7tv9rpCNRT1uz_AbQx_0BPwLwZ8UFizcK5VZfXedhTj4B1uIgFlxTDYFWC46tkfBSsW_49-ChekZxDCRlU7CGQzQxLsYTUgFKrtXNnf0K4qjW_yAK_Pul6iAEl6SpSmmi-FCp6ung/s320/IMG_2538.jpeg" width="240" /></a></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, "Segoe UI", Meiryo, "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><br /></p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px;"></span><span face="Calibri, "Segoe UI", Meiryo, "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"></span><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, "Segoe UI", Meiryo, "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">The fourth infusion has a milky chocolate that is more milk chocolate than dark chocolate. Nice rich chocolate milk taste with chalky creamy full mouthfeeling. Very nice full creamy sweet taste. Nice mouth salivating astringency from last few infusions is gone now. </span></p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px;"></span><span face="Calibri, "Segoe UI", Meiryo, "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"></span><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, "Segoe UI", Meiryo, "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">5<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> has a rich woody almost salty sweetness that has a creamy sweet backbone. Nice fully chalky creamy feeling in the mouth with deep throat opening and cooling with returning chocolate taste with subtle not really floral fruity almost tobacco subtle suggestions as well. Nice chest opening feeling and mind floating feeling.</span></p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px;"></span><span face="Calibri, "Segoe UI", Meiryo, "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"></span><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, "Segoe UI", Meiryo, "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">6<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> has a smoke woody onset with incense- resin taste initially with a subtle coolness and some creamy sweetness returns. Overall lots of smokey taste, char more than incense. Nice mouth salivating and strong mind freeing Qi feeling. </span></p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px;"></span><span face="Calibri, "Segoe UI", Meiryo, "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"></span><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, "Segoe UI", Meiryo, "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">7<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> is left to cool in the cup and gives off a sweet fruity taste with a smoke char finish. Nice pop of fresh melon fruity taste fades into a more dry gripping smoke that is a bit dry and gritty but mainly full oily in the mouth. Nice mind floating Qi. You can really feel it in the face too with a numbing feeling and arms are really light and airy.</span></p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px;"></span><span face="Calibri, "Segoe UI", Meiryo, "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"></span><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, "Segoe UI", Meiryo, "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">8<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> has a rich almost coffee like taste with a bland-bitter-woody-roasty-smoke onset. Nice roasted nut sort of lingering sweetness in the mouth. Nice floating body Qi feeling. Oily saliva producing even minutes later. Strong Heart opening feelng.</span></p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px;"></span><span face="Calibri, "Segoe UI", Meiryo, "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"></span><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, "Segoe UI", Meiryo, "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">9<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> is left to cool and gives off a sweet melon rich bitter woody coffee sweet creamy onset. There is some smoke in there and an overall resin sweet base taste. Nice pop of sweet taste and dense layered tastes. Strong Heart opening, floating head/limbs Qi.</span></p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px;"></span><span face="Calibri, "Segoe UI", Meiryo, "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"></span><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, "Segoe UI", Meiryo, "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">10<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> is left to cool and gives off a bitter woody melon fresh fruity roasted coffee taste. Really nice condensed taste with a resin roasted coffee base taste with faint smoke. Nice dry silty mouthfeeling now. Long coffee and sweet melon aftertaste with saliva producing effect. </span></p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px;"></span><span face="Calibri, "Segoe UI", Meiryo, "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"></span><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, "Segoe UI", Meiryo, "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">11<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> has a roasted nut and melon onset with a coffee-like bitter roast base taste. Lots of condensed strong taste initially with a returning milky creamy sweet-bitter coffee aftertaste. There is still a splash of melon taste initially. The mouthfeeling is getting more silty-dry and full with lots of saliva producing. It doesn’t finish as sweet as is a bitter-bland coffee. Heart opening chest opening feeling with floating head and limbs that are a bit heavy now.</span></p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px;"></span><span face="Calibri, "Segoe UI", Meiryo, "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"></span><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, "Segoe UI", Meiryo, "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">13<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> infusion has a smoke woody resin onset with a smothered sweetness that can’t quite break through. There is a stronger gripping dry mouthfeeling and more of a bitter-dry-coffee taste to it. Not any saliva producing so this infusion comes off a bit rougher. Nice mind floating…</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, "Segoe UI", Meiryo, "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, "Segoe UI", Meiryo, "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiDcGrvaijW21U9sxFNTCVjAJd4Gl91mrGmY-wHLPVKsWIpP__9c-tjZYGLyh_Cai31e65r690Ve1HPN1ZQEqa-IHaqBcBEoojoZcKqM7V53HudrVe14X47NACnzP0DREhTc7p80-kyIt0BRvsDsm4c8EVh1OQXMuYuNjwd4INFbAO6D8DltjqQsxBkTc/s4032/IMG_2539.jpeg" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiDcGrvaijW21U9sxFNTCVjAJd4Gl91mrGmY-wHLPVKsWIpP__9c-tjZYGLyh_Cai31e65r690Ve1HPN1ZQEqa-IHaqBcBEoojoZcKqM7V53HudrVe14X47NACnzP0DREhTc7p80-kyIt0BRvsDsm4c8EVh1OQXMuYuNjwd4INFbAO6D8DltjqQsxBkTc/s320/IMG_2539.jpeg" width="240" /></a></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, "Segoe UI", Meiryo, "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, "Segoe UI", Meiryo, "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">Overall this is a pretty awesome example of Yiwu! Unfortunately it’s acidity was maybe actually and truly acidic and this puerh gave me heartburn every time I consumed it. No puerh has ever did this to me. I know acidity in puerh can be quite a positive attribute, even for me, but this one is something else. The <a href="https://mgualt.com/tealog/2022/10/27/mattchas-tasting-set-reveal-and-commentary/">2001 Menghai Tea Factory 7542 Simplified Yun, 2003 Hongkong Henry Serious Prescription, and 1997 Menghai Tea Factoy ShuiLanYin</a> are examples of acidic puerh which I find to be excellent but none ever actually give me acid reflux (of course the ones I’ve caked have Traditional HongKong Storage on them and this Dragon Tea House is dry stored)! The strange thing is, I never get heartburn… damn it but I really like this puerh! </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, "Segoe UI", Meiryo, "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">I think I would really like to try the 2004 Dragon Tea House Yiwu with the site bragging it’s power and tight compression. I was pretty much offline over the last few weeks <a href="https://teaswelike.com/product/2004-dragon-tea-house-h-k-yiwu-preorder/">so missed the preorder</a>. Once I track it down there will be a good comparison tasting…</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, "Segoe UI", Meiryo, "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;"><a href="https://mgualt.com/tealog/2016/09/25/2006-dth-yiwu/">Marco’s (Late Steeps) Tasting Notes</a></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;"><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QNimL7O8fpY">James and Denny’s (Tea DB) Tasting Notes</a></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;"><a href="https://www.badgerandblade.com/forum/threads/sotd-sheng-of-the-day.59712/page-370#post-9573144">Shah8’s Tasting Notes</a></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, "Segoe UI", Meiryo, "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri Regular;">Peace</span></p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px;"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" />Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02736984697520031171noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693176331381554957.post-54444040067262617232023-11-17T21:26:00.003-08:002023-11-17T21:26:59.871-08:00When the Autumn Cold Comes, Drink Aged Puerh<p> I had a really wonderful month or so of fresh puerh reviews in early- to mid-Autumn from <a href="http://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2023/09/?m=0">Tea Encounter</a>, <a href="http://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2023/10/?m=0">ChenYuan Hao and Puerist</a>! The last few years here in the Canadian prairies have had warm early- and mid-Autumns. This weather makes it tolerable to even drink fresh puerh. The last few years have also had early Winters with snow arriving before the end of October and staying until the melt off in Spring. The intensity of the shift from warm to cold in a few weeks really shocks the system and sends you gravitating towards aged and semi aged puerh almost immediately. This year was very much the same.</p><p>The last few years I had consumed no fresh puerh from this time until Spring. This year the snow and cold came even a few weeks earlier and really gave the body a jolt. As it were, I still had a few more fresh 2023 Chenyuan Hao samples left so I uncomfortably pushed through. If they weren’t so damn good I surely would have waited for next year. After finishing those off I have been really enjoying some aged puerh over the last few weeks here. </p><p>I have been using my Large and XL Yixing pots and steeping out some satisfying aged puerh into a mug. Typically I am steeping the same leaves out over 3-7 days. It’s a really slow way of unraveling a puerh over a really long time and I’m quite enjoying it. Many days I have spent sitting by the wood burning fireplace sipping at these comforting puerhs as the picturesque snow coats the world. Some <a href="https://mgualt.com/tealog/2020/10/04/1970s-guang-yun-gong-%E5%BB%A3%E6%9D%B1%E9%A4%85-%E5%9C%93%E7%A5%A8/">90s stuff</a>, <a href="https://teaswelike.com/product/8972-cnnp-brick/">Traditional Hongkong storage stuff</a>, <a href="http://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2022/02/2001-teas-we-like-iron-zhongcha-oil.html?m=1">some iron bings</a> and even some <a href="http://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2018/08/2006-yang-qing-hao-qixiang-and-classic.html?m=1">Yang Qing Hao</a> have been given the weeks long strong hand big pot treatment. Haha</p><p>I have, as I always have done for years now, been drinking lots of puerh from my favourite puerh vendor <a href="https://teaswelike.com/">TeasWeLike</a>. The big size quarter cakes and full cakes leave me in no rush to evaluate and I catch myself lost in my enjoyment of drinking them as I think to myself “ I should really write something about this sometime.” I made a few purchases over the last few months stocking some of my favourites to consume as it gets cold out. They have such satisfying puerhs. I am to post a bunch of it in the next month or so.</p><p>Until then…</p><p>Peace</p>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02736984697520031171noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693176331381554957.post-23305594010907451692023-10-31T22:52:00.000-07:002023-10-31T22:52:06.990-07:002023 ChenYuan Hao TianMenShan: Beautiful Piling On Sweetnesses <p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTRisKYO06fgir-bQzmtG_GJYHyK7J2Iqi6d6NDx0lmGGjpCXPbsvbcxfI-sLuTf1Nn8siAeUWe-BUguSO5rYd7P4vLDHUR5_FjrfbZukgSmWOVJwn88DQPbI0R8fxMXIjeGshXCiSUUWOPQgiw91_1eXHYWLgfo8g-WUUThiwE2k0VoKUgYperx1bza0/s4032/IMG_5558.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTRisKYO06fgir-bQzmtG_GJYHyK7J2Iqi6d6NDx0lmGGjpCXPbsvbcxfI-sLuTf1Nn8siAeUWe-BUguSO5rYd7P4vLDHUR5_FjrfbZukgSmWOVJwn88DQPbI0R8fxMXIjeGshXCiSUUWOPQgiw91_1eXHYWLgfo8g-WUUThiwE2k0VoKUgYperx1bza0/s320/IMG_5558.jpeg" width="240" /></a></p><p><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">I got this sample free for review but <a href="https://chenyuanhao.shop/product/2023-tianmenshan/">2023 ChenYuan Hao TianMenShan goes for $784.00 for 357g cake or $2.20/g</a>. This is another area that has become crazy expensive lately and to tell you the truth there is this mystique surrounding this area, unlike others, that casts its spell on even quite famous puerh producers. The oldest trees in the area seem to be difficult to obtain and they seem to be marketed in such a way that projects that even the producers feel honoured and maybe lucky to get them. </span></p><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">The only other Tianmenshan Gushu I’ve tried was the 2020 Essence of Tea TianMenShan GaoGan. They said that they will likely not be able to get the leaves again and only got to press this stuff in 2020 because of the lack of foreign travel due to the pandemic shutdown. They have not pressed another. ChenYuan Hao also has a similar scarcity narrative with this 2023. So there is hype with this area.</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">I guess the price of TianMenShan material might have doubled since 2020 or maybe this ChenYuan Hao is twice as good as the Essence of Tea? Let’s find out…</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dry leaves smell of distant forest almost nutty.<div><br /></div><div>The rinsed leaf smells like forest.<br /><div><br /></div><div>First infusion has a clear woody watery taste with a sweetness that slowly expands into a candy taste. The mouthfeel has a metallic smooth sticky feeling. The qi expands in the chest. </div><div><br /></div><div>Second infusion has a woody mild bitter almost coco oily taste with a slow strong returning sweetness that transforms slowly but powerfully from clear sugar into strong candy taste. The mouthfeel is slippery and sticky with a pasty feeling. Qi has a chest puffy feeling. </div><div><br /></div><div>Third has a bitter floral onset with woody grains notes that turn to a mouthwatering returning sugars after taste which slowly and powerfully transforms into candy. Sighing feeling with some body floating body feeling. Mouthfeel is more full gripping now. Chest expansion big chest balloon feeling. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKueqFySMGglPmcV0jx2KjmOvoYLoXlJ5sv7Z7dHuiLBj1zHUTKkg-8-tfj-QprZ7Ni91U-uIeHj6bwmXcat3-u2OdXHOvbLY4HlvzGPGDBDXlOfoJyU8eVdjjeb75asfJg_tX-udhGSuIGnzUfe2XCPLfAxMwiPMW_J6cVW9JJtrqDInfc3hXmQiI6OI/s4032/IMG_5559.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKueqFySMGglPmcV0jx2KjmOvoYLoXlJ5sv7Z7dHuiLBj1zHUTKkg-8-tfj-QprZ7Ni91U-uIeHj6bwmXcat3-u2OdXHOvbLY4HlvzGPGDBDXlOfoJyU8eVdjjeb75asfJg_tX-udhGSuIGnzUfe2XCPLfAxMwiPMW_J6cVW9JJtrqDInfc3hXmQiI6OI/s320/IMG_5559.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Fouth infusion is a floral woody mild bitter with a sugar returning sweetness that strengthens into an almost carmel then to a candy sweetness. This is a beautiful feature of this puerh the strong and changing transformation of sweet tastes. It has a mouthwatering effect with a mild gripping and slight sticky dryness. Qi feels like mild expanding chest and head. </div><div><br /></div><div>Fifth infusion has a watery woody onset with a sugary returning sweetness that expands a bit into a caramel sweetness and then predictably into a more mild candy with dry mouth and wood. The mouthfeel is a dry pulling but not overly abrasive. The effect is saliva producing pushing saliva from the deep throat into a candy sweetness. Nice mellow mind with puffy chest feeling.</div><div><br /></div><div>Sixth infusion has a watery woody grains taste. Sticky slight gripping feeling. There is still some returning sugar into candy but mild now. Mild mellow mind Qi now. Some mild puffy chest.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJj_8C2IZrg" style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0jswBXtbcIvupl9_5XJGQXbzp65D8wiAOLTAtYTY1-cMi6ku8kK-g5h95xvkQX741-7Bu_VQGOJbb4tcJkuIyJKzk9LFRLbAarLF4bjXDl_ZO_lx-DizQcL1XXwKKkikf40j_eiHiPZcMVG-SubfqMGXxV_SNsHYU0POcfQzVhEbkaOLYEefHTfVJF0c/s320/IMG_5561.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The seventh is an overnight thermos steeping… the next day it tastes juicy oily fruity taste the oily sweetness fades into the aftertaste. There is a bit slippery then turns to more drying and gripping in the throat. There is some nuttiness in the saliva. </div><div><br /></div><div>Vs <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2020/07/2020-essence-of-tea-tian-men-shan.html?m=1&zx=e06d834dc30f84d3">2020 Essence of Tea TianMenShan GaoGan</a>. The Essence of Tea had much strong and brilliant Qi in the mind and body. I really like the swaying bodyfeeling and the build up of pressure and release feeling. It is really all about the Qi. This 2023 Chen Yuan Hao is all about this transformative, morphing, building sweetness. It does this thing where it starts off sugar, then slowly to carmel, then long candy sweetness. Its like the slow steady piling on of layered sweetnesses with each sip. Really beautiful and refined but it really lacks a complex Qi experience for me. The ChenYuan Hao <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2023/10/2023-chenyuan-hao-cha-wang-shu-top-tier.html?m=1">ChaWangshu</a> and especially the <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2023/10/2023-chenyuan-hao-bai-cha-yuan-complex.html?m=1">BaiChaYuan</a> offer more for the same price when it comes to the bodyfeel and Qi.</div><div><br /></div><div>This is my last of these 2023 ChenYuan Hao free samples for review. The quality of these samples is pretty amazing with no flaws in the whole line up. I didn’t get a chance to try some of the crazy expensive stuff but I’m going to try to shake Paolo down a bit (haha) to get these last ones before I conclude with a ranking for commenter Roadie.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://puerh.blog/teanotes/2023-chenyuan-hao-tianmenshan">Alex’s Tasting Notes</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJj_8C2IZrg">Paolo’s Tasting Notes</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Peace<br /></div></div></div></div></div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02736984697520031171noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693176331381554957.post-28593166721191089422023-10-28T19:51:00.005-07:002023-10-28T19:51:58.409-07:002023 ChenYuan Hao Yibang: Clear Pure YiBang<p> <br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcdgG4juah_OtdDob6iJ5WEk_SHEwcgAzjhmCwVMXTgOudadNRN-kASmDGhXWiO_v0nYi1usvN2OfXWN8HC7wOvKKQzWOJZgaMh8vDJjTG31M4RXNMjFfs3klWJcVwvQXv2unYNtA1fOeULSkl_AcjJwLG7OLxSs-yA5uLAF9A0dbHacHbphf1Vs5ZC6I/s4032/IMG_5555.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcdgG4juah_OtdDob6iJ5WEk_SHEwcgAzjhmCwVMXTgOudadNRN-kASmDGhXWiO_v0nYi1usvN2OfXWN8HC7wOvKKQzWOJZgaMh8vDJjTG31M4RXNMjFfs3klWJcVwvQXv2unYNtA1fOeULSkl_AcjJwLG7OLxSs-yA5uLAF9A0dbHacHbphf1Vs5ZC6I/s320/IMG_5555.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">This is another free sample from review but this <a href="https://chenyuanhao.shop/product-category/sheng-puer/">2023 ChenYuan Hao YiBang goes for $300.00 for 357 g cake or $0.84/</a>g. </span></p><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><div dir="ltr">Dry leaves smell of fruit to-fruity grapes sweetness Forest.<div><br /></div><div>First infusion has a sugary grapes tuitti-fruity with oily mouthfeel slight fine sand ghostly pucker. Very fruity and clear. Deep throat opening with mild coolness. Spacy relaxing high feeling.</div><div><br /></div><div>Second has a grape tuitti-fruity taste with sweet sugar and grapes oily finish in the mouth. There is a subtle throat stimulation a long rolling coolness that builds up and goes deep. Calm high feeling with chest lightness. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1jzg93-m5zMpw2QWjqH_azOm6rmzvJrNHlE5RkVhaMLskZTwrcjngAgGPKqyb3Pe9OdWD4wCpvAuN4jOrkuaUhQo4WQPHhmjbC_HdYcE0F7ybuCBKtpoFBlEfFgzuEF51L_OLPuCrsByyAaiYUlOtpBlx7HrdLEONYRYUzOgxfnHzrHXrla7Ax6MvzSE/s4032/IMG_5556.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1jzg93-m5zMpw2QWjqH_azOm6rmzvJrNHlE5RkVhaMLskZTwrcjngAgGPKqyb3Pe9OdWD4wCpvAuN4jOrkuaUhQo4WQPHhmjbC_HdYcE0F7ybuCBKtpoFBlEfFgzuEF51L_OLPuCrsByyAaiYUlOtpBlx7HrdLEONYRYUzOgxfnHzrHXrla7Ax6MvzSE/s320/IMG_5556.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Third infusion has an icing sugar onset with edges of fruit. The icing sugar expands and pains the mouth and tongue as it cools. Calming high. Light subtle floating chest. Long sweet sugar in subtle fine sandy slight dry lips.</div><div><br /></div><div>Fourth infusion has a watery pure clear oily sugar taste with fruity grape edges. Slight grains taste. Slight dry lips and fine sandy mouthfeel. Deep chest relaxing feeling with spacey calm high.</div><div><br /></div><div>Fifth infusion has a watery woody grains taste. There is only faintly returning sweet edges now with a slightly gripping mouthfeel pucker. Slight astringency is felt in the empty stomach. Spacy relaxing sleepiness qi is strong.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicUXNwf4gjmvo0bPi0QA7ZiUFqxuLJVlkNiAlgzgeWCET99V3-LejmF4M_ZRTzk6piaCdChGTM8F73gzNDJfbu8b2s4Y5cJbtUt1yRDTCXnQchnHsU3riwlmNO9sAuFpGt0EU26UTqIfUkzM49bLV3G12uuN7vO5GknrpGbrVjv2vPVfXoBSSHRMRVTPY/s4032/IMG_5557.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicUXNwf4gjmvo0bPi0QA7ZiUFqxuLJVlkNiAlgzgeWCET99V3-LejmF4M_ZRTzk6piaCdChGTM8F73gzNDJfbu8b2s4Y5cJbtUt1yRDTCXnQchnHsU3riwlmNO9sAuFpGt0EU26UTqIfUkzM49bLV3G12uuN7vO5GknrpGbrVjv2vPVfXoBSSHRMRVTPY/s320/IMG_5557.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Sixth is a long thermos.. I put it in the fridge and go to it the next day… it is sweet oily sugar with grapes edges. The long infusion is much the same as the flash infusions which is rare. Cool throat with lips drying and slight fine sandy silty slight pucker feeling. Long sugar grape cooling. Pure sweet flavour and long sweet pure taste not inturupted by woody or Forest flavours. Expanding calm mind feeling and floating chest feeling.</div><div><br /></div><div>Peace</div></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" />Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02736984697520031171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693176331381554957.post-26918488293373260392023-10-26T22:17:00.001-07:002023-10-26T22:17:34.633-07:002023 Tea Encounter Nanma Gushu: Heavy Header<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd4TAFIOG6o7YiSXEAh1fjq9OHzSXzSij4XW6G_kBc0KaryvbYpQnbf1lyfYRJTa7-ZSXJZOhYYXHFsfxiUlEdIm5qk1zwDJb4NKWpTDIXA3IJdQXDQMHcIMd4WgbIfFn8jvJO1MAV363osUng3rz4q4pkc9mh8Phg99JkMlHy0K-3prdJNI_UcebMV1E/s4032/IMG_5543.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd4TAFIOG6o7YiSXEAh1fjq9OHzSXzSij4XW6G_kBc0KaryvbYpQnbf1lyfYRJTa7-ZSXJZOhYYXHFsfxiUlEdIm5qk1zwDJb4NKWpTDIXA3IJdQXDQMHcIMd4WgbIfFn8jvJO1MAV363osUng3rz4q4pkc9mh8Phg99JkMlHy0K-3prdJNI_UcebMV1E/s320/IMG_5543.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p> <span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">According to the Tea Encounter website Nanma is an area of Laos just across the border from GuaFengZhai. This would make it the third Laos production from Tea Encounter over the years. All three seem to focus on the area around GuaFengZhai/Laos but they are all very very different puerh. The <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2020/01/2019-tea-encounter-laos-gushu-real-blend.html?m=1">2019 Tea Encounter Laos </a>is a Xiaoshu GuaFengZhai and Gushu Laos blend and has the most as far as the depth of the blend goes. The <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2022/09/2022-tea-encounter-laos-gushu.html?m=1">2022 is a Xiaoshu TianMenShan Gushu Laos</a> blend (which I sampled following this tasting) and has a juicy oily profile. This year is a single area Gushu from Laos…. and it’s by far the best of the three! I’ve read <a href="https://puerh.blog/teanotes/2023-nanma-gushu-te">Alex’s excellent review</a> but I enjoyed this puerh significantly more than him, I think.</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">This <a href="https://tea-encounter.com/product/te-2023-nanma/">2023 Tea Encounter Nanma Gushu goes for $132.00 for 200g cake or $0.66/g</a>. This one came free for review with a purchase but out of all the 2023 Tea Encounter Gushus this might probably be the one I would purchase.</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dry leaves have that characteristic Laos gamey barnyard odour but this one is less overpowering with a counterbalance of a deep almost peach pear creamy sweetness. <div><br /></div><div>First infusion has a slight gamey but mainly with creamy sugar Forest almost spice taste. There is a soft cottony mouthfeeling with a wet salivating feeling. The mouthfeel is really nice returning cool breath dry lips with an almost spicy but sugary sweetness. Head twitches and heavy head feeling. Slight rubbery finish.</div><div><br /></div><div>Second infusion has a watery gamey forest sweet taste. Somewhat perfume with a floral edge and almost fruity sweetness. Heavy head sensations. Spacy with heavy head.</div><div><br /></div><div>Third infusion is cooled down and has a sweet spicy floral taste. Long cooling and creamy sweet taste. Creamy returning sweet pops and shines with faint edges of peach under he creamy sweet. The mouthfeel is a fine full sandy feeling. Long sweet peachy breath. Heavy body and head with spacey mind slowing. A bit wild tea tasting profile.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcEtA_uaKfVZchNKVwvqprNMeiQhfeJhl21MDV0BGW4A-bXP_gYUgVGyUr5jg15Rxt_j5mx2KgpGd4_9gSgSFhrZB8cBetQ6TiER2l3O1Lm54QeId7Gonvrzbim_56Oq99_8egMrDnt3TkqmftYN7-e6HZdRtbhgchns7Sz4Z4FqPNMMBG5fM3Z-WwTtE/s4032/IMG_5544.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcEtA_uaKfVZchNKVwvqprNMeiQhfeJhl21MDV0BGW4A-bXP_gYUgVGyUr5jg15Rxt_j5mx2KgpGd4_9gSgSFhrZB8cBetQ6TiER2l3O1Lm54QeId7Gonvrzbim_56Oq99_8egMrDnt3TkqmftYN7-e6HZdRtbhgchns7Sz4Z4FqPNMMBG5fM3Z-WwTtE/s320/IMG_5544.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Fourth infusion has a forest floral soapy fruity sweetness with a fine sandy mouthfeel. There is a juicy pop of fruity oily sweetness and nice returning long cool breath. Deep throat opening with rubbery sweet after finish. Spacey mind with heady head and body. Some forestry almost rubbery floral bland bitter taste in the mouth.</div><div><br /></div><div>5th has a bit bitter with floral pucker nice long cooling floral breath . There is a bready yeasty sweetness mid profile. Lots of pucker and bitter astringency with strong mind slowing Qi warming Qi slowing Qi. Mind transporting.</div><div><br /></div><div>6th strong bitter floral intensity with mind escape. Bitter sweet fruity floral intensity with silty mouthfeel deep cooling throat and very intense breaking a sweat qi. Long bitter florals. My face is sweating…. I have to step away from the tea today and the next day I drink the rest of the cooled down cup and it has a bitter floral power with a sweet bready and gingerbread taste with a returning fruity floral under the bitter. Strong flat mouthfeeling. Strong head Qi heaviness. Almost caramel sweet taste.</div><div><br /></div><div>7th has a fruity floral watery oily taste their is some mild bitterness lingering cool breath with floral finish. Heavy head and mind.</div><div><br /></div><div>8th has a floral chalky watery bland bitter taste. There isn’t much sweetness left here mainly bitter and bland. Strong Head heavy and stuffy Qi.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh95qiwCwEike-GzPwwtLZXJDhMApkefUKcpYjS-w07TkODPggras2zlsov5jI2amDPiXJDDK0gc4BTHwy7h9axhyphenhyphenDBZowO82kedIYciOSVfSVf7lBFmA4X6LTUsJOocpH5IqNwpD0ga510RDGmxzHYc4Ejyg_UbC8-usymM7DmAQtglihssLzHKhPAUS0/s4032/IMG_5554.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh95qiwCwEike-GzPwwtLZXJDhMApkefUKcpYjS-w07TkODPggras2zlsov5jI2amDPiXJDDK0gc4BTHwy7h9axhyphenhyphenDBZowO82kedIYciOSVfSVf7lBFmA4X6LTUsJOocpH5IqNwpD0ga510RDGmxzHYc4Ejyg_UbC8-usymM7DmAQtglihssLzHKhPAUS0/s320/IMG_5554.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>9th is an overnight thermos steeping and it comes out somewhat GuaFengZhi tasting- quickish moving bitterness, potato, melon, floral with expanding creamy sweet taste in a chalky mouthfeeling that becomes gripping. There is a pop of candy sweetness. Lots of dense flavour still. Lots of excellent stamina. Long sweet saliva producing.</div><div><br /></div><div>Peace</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02736984697520031171noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693176331381554957.post-64072867949413531902023-10-22T23:36:00.000-07:002023-10-22T23:36:32.874-07:002023 Tea Encounter Gua Feng Zhai Chaping Gushu: Enlivening Chest, Expansive Mind<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMhgO3G7gq2NZ2XebZExyl6V8W448lmFur1_9CWd8b1N7EUEXORt8d2sagtJpK8RQ4ltF2hJVpFrnFzn7UjGYOYg3rA_I8cA8553JdpYcUM8IMs3xJM5imbpiYD9yGdU_Xjm4jYheq3Fn8qXn34U85id10dbDxgIAQe3jWrAqytlRp6LjgPAKv06pG-es/s4032/IMG_5527.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"> <img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMhgO3G7gq2NZ2XebZExyl6V8W448lmFur1_9CWd8b1N7EUEXORt8d2sagtJpK8RQ4ltF2hJVpFrnFzn7UjGYOYg3rA_I8cA8553JdpYcUM8IMs3xJM5imbpiYD9yGdU_Xjm4jYheq3Fn8qXn34U85id10dbDxgIAQe3jWrAqytlRp6LjgPAKv06pG-es/s320/IMG_5527.jpeg" width="240" /></a></p><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">I was recently sent this free 2023 Tea Encounter Gua Feng Zhai maocha with a cake purchase of the very satisfying <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2023/09/2023-tea-encounter-douyishu-ascension.html?m=0">2023 Tea Encounter Douyishu</a> (there are only 2 cakes left for sale and I recommend it!). Gua Feng Zhai Gushu is a common staple of Tea Encounter Gushu productions released in 2020 and 2021. Sometimes they release them a few months later than their 2023 release, so watch out if you are interested. I purchased their 2020 Tea Encounter Gua Feng Zhai and was offered a free sample of their 2021 Tea Encounter Gua Feng Zhai Chaping Gushu. The 2021 was not as enjoyable as the 2020 for me, not a powerful singular Gua Feng Zhai experience none the less quite delicious and satisfying. I ended up sampling this 2023 Tea Encounter Gua Feng Zhai Chaping Gushu after two top shelf 2023 Gua FengZhai area puerh from ChenYuan Hao. </div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">It should be noted the the Chaping area of GuaFengZhai is a much less expensive garden area of GuaFengZhai and is located in south Gua Feng Zhai. Whereas the <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2023/10/2023-chenyuan-hao-cha-wang-shu-top-tier.html?m=1">2023 ChenYuan Hao Chawangshu</a> (wet leaves pictured Left) and <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2023/10/2023-chenyuan-hao-bai-cha-yuan-complex.html?m=1">2023 ChenYuan Hao Bai Cha Yuan</a> (wet leaves pictured right) are no question very top shelf.</div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgRZ3tBZOJ15KQh_ZgSWNJq7c2VOPscpOjfd2m0b09yg4ApTOIBnF9faFI6Izu0QfYTAMJt-Fv5R0VRiJ7GxdNPom85eo7NQBkcQnpsOWbmpLrv-DtEJNDwySop9QFNY76FdnCr3xyFkO7juQxUHnQc6mDtAG6cBwZKbRJVgV4aHca72CpMoSRXJb8WIw/s4032/IMG_5529.jpeg" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgRZ3tBZOJ15KQh_ZgSWNJq7c2VOPscpOjfd2m0b09yg4ApTOIBnF9faFI6Izu0QfYTAMJt-Fv5R0VRiJ7GxdNPom85eo7NQBkcQnpsOWbmpLrv-DtEJNDwySop9QFNY76FdnCr3xyFkO7juQxUHnQc6mDtAG6cBwZKbRJVgV4aHca72CpMoSRXJb8WIw/s320/IMG_5529.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Following this tasting I tasted the 2021 Tea Encounter GuaFengZhai Chaping then the 2020 Tea Encounter Chaping for comparison…</div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dry leaves smell of very creamy sweet cooling pungent over faint forestry odours.<div><br /></div><div>First infusion is a creamy sweet very pungent forest woody mainly so very cooling pungent breath with a long woody. There is some floral layer in there as well. Over a sticky lip drying feeling in the mouth. A rubbery woody Forest taste linger minutes later. Qi is chesty with an enlivening chest energy and expanding mind energetic.</div><div><br /></div><div>Second infusion left to cool is a forestry strong cooling pungent forest taste with some lingering returning almost melon tastes. There is a gob of saliva forming. Mainly oily sticky mouthfeeling. Deep sigh relaxing with expanding chesty beats. Deeper throat opening with saliva producing.</div><div><br /></div><div>Third infusion is left to cool and has a forest pungent grassy melon floral taste. Nice deep mild cooling throat with a sticky mouthfeel and open deeper throat. Spacy Ali with chest beats and expansive chest feeling.</div><div><br /></div><div>Fourth has a watery sweet creamy potato woody Forest. Cooling deep breath woody with a sticky drying mouthfeel that is almost gripping. There is a rubbery Forest sort of finish long cooling taste minutes later. Chest expansion and active energy.</div><div><br /></div><div>5th is again left to cool and is quite watery with a faint grassy forest taste cool deep breath. Not as oily but subtle stick mouth coating with dry stick lips. Mild chest expanding high energetic feeling.</div><div><br /></div><div>6th is a long steeping.. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnFV4TAiQhzzje4nl9K8VfLw-sNWG0emEYG4_o0OPjlzbmYsWnw7W2uLbSk-axwKaxJmSskxpYdllEJh2sn-cCleDQpF3U9ltIPfc76q0wsTsdnk81NrpnDn83jPuE9Phw0balgOiwymd9hDQlFPemIuSnF2GymP5EempGDZFqsO1yq4N05vJq1VKq8Tc/s4032/IMG_5528.jpeg" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnFV4TAiQhzzje4nl9K8VfLw-sNWG0emEYG4_o0OPjlzbmYsWnw7W2uLbSk-axwKaxJmSskxpYdllEJh2sn-cCleDQpF3U9ltIPfc76q0wsTsdnk81NrpnDn83jPuE9Phw0balgOiwymd9hDQlFPemIuSnF2GymP5EempGDZFqsO1yq4N05vJq1VKq8Tc/s320/IMG_5528.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I then tried the <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2021/09/2021-tea-encounter-guafengzhai-gushu.html?m=1">2021 Tea Encounter Guafengzhai Chaping Gushu.</a> I think this year is more similar to the 2023 Gushu I just tried from the same garden in Chaping…</div><div><br /></div><div>Dry leaves have a piercing woody creamy sweet but strong minty pungent odour.</div><div><br /></div><div>First infusion has a woody creamy pungent taste that is really nice and pure. Nice chest relief and uplifting with sighing. Cool deep woody aftertaste with a slight dry sticky coating.</div><div><br /></div><div>Second infusion has a woody creamy sweet slight roasted cereal and potato taste with long deep cooling breath and almost melon almond sweetness. Candy melon sweetness is trapped in the saliva minutes later. Spacy high feeling almost like leaving body. Chest expanding. </div><div><br /></div><div>Third infusion has a watery woody cool creamy pure flavours taste. Slight drying gripping mouthfeel and cereal grains taste. Big spacy high feeling. Chest beating.</div><div><br /></div><div>Fourth infusion has a watery woody taste with a grains cereal mid aftertaste. Cooling breath is less. More grains woody now. </div><div><br /></div><div>5th has a woody lime and grassy with faint sweet edges. </div><div><br /></div><div>6th long infusion …</div><div><br /></div><div>Then I sampled the <a href="https://mattchasblog.blogspot.com/2020/07/2020-tea-encounter-guafengzhai-gushu.html?m=1">2020 Tea Encounter GuaFengZhai Chaping Gushu</a>. The notes ended up not saving but I’ll go into what I found…</div><div><br /></div><div>It comes on really thick… it’s really thickened up smoother than I sampled it two years ago. Thick lubricating and saliva producing sort of in between a ManZhuan and Yi Shan Mo. very sweet as well with thick fruity taste. Very sweet with some forestry pungent and even potato but mainly just thick fruity sweetness. Strong deep relaxing high. Instantly relaxes and unwinds. It’s retains much sweetness throughout the session and is supported by an increasingly full stimulating throat and mouthfeel. A bit different than the 2021 and 2023- maybe 2020 was just the year?</div><div><br /></div><div>Peace</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02736984697520031171noreply@blogger.com0