I got this complimentary sample with my re-order of the
powerful 2020 Essence of Tea TianMenShan GaoGan which is currently out of stock. This 2020 Essence of Tea Jinggu Forest used to sell for $40.00 for 200g cake or $0.20/g and is also out of stock. David and YingXi have put a great line up
together this year and it looks like 4 of the 11 are already sold out. This Jinggu was billed as a budget option
that came from a wild forest environment…
Very compressed chunk of dry leaves smell of very vegetal
sweetness with a creamy sweet edge.
First infusion has a smooth creamy vegetal taste with a
cooling pungency which brings a wave of creamy sweet pea like vegetal in the
aftertaste. There is a slight soapy
finish in the mouth. Nice soft slippery
slicky mouthfeeling. There are edges of
candy tastes that aren’t ready to come out in this first infusion.
The second infusion has a creamy buttercup milky vegetal
that reminds me of Alishan Oolong. There
is a thick oily mouthcoating and a mild cooling pungent that pushes creamy, vegetal,
and almost candy like sweetness out on to the breath. The throat feel is mildly mid sticky
opening. This puerh has a very full and
smooth presentation.
The third infusion has a vegetal buttery sweetness but a bit
of mild bitter vegetal appears. There is
a very mild cool pungency that returns a vegetal and still slightly bitter
creamy almost sweet dandelion buttery creamy sweetness. The mouthfeel is a touch more engaging with a
slight simulating throat. There is a
hypnotic Qi developing…
The fourth infusion has a bitter vegetal onset with a
buttery creamy sweetness almost sweet pea.
Mild breath pungency brings a returning creamy sweetness with vegetal
bitterness. The texture is moderately
oily and the mouthfeeling is mildly gripping which nicely simulates the upper
and mid throat. An almost candy like
taste quickly moves out before the mainly vegetal somewhat bitter and sweet
aftertaste. A spacy and hypnotic Qi
starts to build mildly.
The fifth has a buttery vegetal grassy taste with a slight
bitterness creamy lime taste. It has a
really refreshing feel to it and a somewhat oily presentation with a slighter
gripping mouthfeeling. Tastes grassy and
lime here. The Qi is really nice smooth
relaxing even dozy, hypnotic feeling.
The mouthfeeling is sticky slight gripping. I can feel it’s fresh sheng energy beat a bit
at my empty stomach.
The sixth infusion has a buttery grassy slight astringent
bitterness. There is a fresh lime/grass
taste. The mouthfeel is a bit gripping,
the throat a bit simulating. There is a
long fresh green vegetal grassy and a bit creamy sweet aftertaste.
The seventh infusion has an almost milky Taiwanese oolong
onset with a grassy mild bitterness with creamy sweetness. The mouthfeel is a touch oily and kind of
sticky puckering with a bit of throat stimulation. I feel mildly stoned from the hypnotic Qi
here.
The eighth infusion has cooled to room temp before
consumption and it gives off a creamy moderately oily thicker mainly creamy
sweet and vegetal. There is a splash of
lime and grassy sweetness. The bitter
and astringency is gone in the cool cup.
Qi is nicely hypnotic and makes me feel high.
The ninth infusion has a milky silky vegetal grass and pea
onset with a vegetal creamy sweetness that is dumped on the breath. There is a chalky oily feeling to the
mouthfeeling and a nice not overly strong by relaxing hypnotic Qi feeling in
the mind. The oily mouthcoating is nice
here and even leaves a powdery feeling in the throat but it can’t generate too
much aftertaste despite this.
The 10th infusion has a soapy almost floral sort
of mild bitter astringent vegetal with mild creamy sweetness in the
background. The feature with this puerh
is its oily chalky mouthfeeling that will do it well as the taste develops over
the next years. There is a chalky, grassy
almost sweetness to it on the tongue after swallowing. There isn’t much going on in the body but the
mind feels relaxed and a touch hypnotized, mellow.
The 11th is a cooled down cup again and it gives
off a creamy chalky thick oily mainly creamy sweetness over a thick oily tongue
coating a mid- open throat. Relaxing Qi.
The 12th infusion has a mellow lime, refreshing
fruit taste with a creamy sweet finish.
The mouthfeeling is thick and somewhat oily. It finishes a nice long floral in the mouth with
a touch of creamy sweet and barely vegetal.
These late mid- infusions really open up nicely in the mouth there is an
oily thickness to this puerh that is really nice overtop of a fairly standard
Jinggu vegetal and sweet taste. Qi is
nicely relaxing.
The 13th infusion is a mild, mellow barely
vegetal, barely sweet taste. I’m still
at flash infusions and choose to steep longer in the hopes something
interesting comes up…
The 14th is at 30 seconds … and pushes out some
lime vegetal creamy tastes. There is a
bit of rubbery astringency underneath.
The mouthfeel has more pucker as well.
Relaxing, mellowing Qi.
The 15th oops… left the water on for a few
minutes there… it gives off a thick chalky vegetal slight bitter astringent
brew with some creamy sweetness…
I put this one into mug steeping… and it gives off thick
olive oily vegetal tastes with a full tongue coating and subtle bitter
astringency with a bit of a creamy sweet finish.
Overall, this one is all about decently thick and at times
olive oily mouthfeeling/tongue coating.
It has decent stamina and a mellowing Qi which, early in the session, is
slightly hypnotic Qi. It doesn’t offer
much as far as bodyfeeling goes but has a thicker vegetal taste and
presentation than most Jinggu. Still has
a bit of astringent bitterness to it.
It kind of reminds me of a thicker and more Jinggu vegetal
version of the 2018 Essence of Tea Bamboo Spring. The Bamboo Spring is lighter, ethereal,
floral sweet actually after a session of the Bamboo Spring it is really nothing
like this thick vegetal Jinggu Forest.
The almost olive oily 2020 Essence of Tea Jinggu Forest reminds me
strongly of a Jinggu I have had in the past 2 years… maybe Yunnan Sourcing… I
have a few sessions with some 2018 Jinggu samples- very nice but not as olive and still can’t satisfy me…
Peace
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