2006 Yang Qing Hao Wu Yang Cha

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

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

Rinsed leaves have a mild distant sweetness faint purfume resin.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Peace. 

2006 Yang Qing Hao Tian Pin

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

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

Rinsed leaves have a peaty sweetness to them.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Smooth Gushu type of experience here…

Peace

2006 Yang Qing Hao Tian Hsiang Pao Pin

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

Dry leaves have a creamy woody almost metalic odour.

Rinsed leaves have a sweet darker cherry bread sweetness. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

…. Might pick one of these up next time…

Peace

2006 Yang Qing Hao Wu Shang Miao Pin

 

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

Dry leaves have a very creamy sweet odour.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Peace

2006 Yang Qing Hao Qi Xiang:Again!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What’s not to love about this one?

Again please!

Peace

L

2020 Meng Xiang Geng Kan

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Peace

2005 Yang Qing Hao “Old Tree” Limited

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

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