This interesting puerh piqued my interest as not much is written about this Wistaria production. It turns out that there is both a 2005 & 2006 cake and maocha options for the Taihe pressings. This 2006 Wistaria Tai He Maocha goes for approx $26.60 for 50g or $0.53/g.
Dry leaves smell of very dry woody odours with a fine piercing
candy floral high noted lingering odour.
The first infusion has a very pungent and spicy quick moving
tingling tongue taste and feel. The
tonguefeeling is numbing and the taste pungent and deep woody and
medicinal. The taste is very pungent and
alive, with some juicy fruitiness, lots of cooling and warming complex pungency
as well as a mild bitterness that offers an extraordinarily complex
presentation. The Qi is immediately calm
in the body and hypnotic in the mind.
There is a long complex spicy and cooling with some woody and sweetness
to finish.
The second infusion has a strong pungent onset with a deep reverberation
numbness in the mouth. There is dry
woody, composting leaf, caramel, floral, camphor…. This puerh reminds me of
some of the old school very camphor tasting cakes. That is the direction of aging on this one
and I think it will be very nice. The
complex taste hits all at once and has a hypnotic feeling to it. The mouthfeeeing is so numbing and the taste
so vibrantly complex pungent.
The third infusion is left to cool and is a deeply pungent
sweet caramel woody taste. The tastes
flood in all at once and a long pungency is overwhelmingly dominant as is a
numbing mouth sensation.
The fourth infusion has a buttery pungent fruity note with
more of a mild flavor overall. There is
still woody, pungency, numbing, camphor, sweet fruity, caramel, leaf. Still complex but not as strong. Nice focusing and hypnotic Qi.
The fifth infusion spicy, pungent, fruity, has a brilliant
wine grape taste that is common in aged maocha.
Long complex lingering sweet pungent aftertaste. This infusions has a lot of fruity
tastes. Nice hypno-Qi.
The sixth infusion has a nice coco raison woody, fruity
almost wine like grape taste. Long wine
like sweetness. These later infusions
are not as tongue numbing, and not as pungent or woody but getting more
complexly sweet. Nice Qi. Feels good a bit light in the shoulder
blades.
The seventh infusion has a woody wine like grape with a deep
throaty pungency and sweet brown sugar aftertaste. The aftertaste is really long and brown sugar
sweet. The Qi makes me feel very happy
and with light arms. Very nice.
The eighth infusion has a woody incense still floral even
peachy taste to it. There is a bit of
wine notes and a deeper cooling pungency.
This infusion is also sweeter. As
the day goes, the happy energy continues.
My body feels slightly light… I feel good.
The ninth infusion starts woody incense but with an emerging
sweet bread taste. There is a strong piercing
pungency to it. It has a long lingering
taste in a soft but mild numbing mouthfeeling.
10th has a mellow woody onset with a pungency
that is slower to develop but lingers deep in the throat and on the aftertaste
with many fruity pear and peach and almost wine like sweet tastes.
11th has a more woody camphor pungent taste. The taste is still quite sweet in the
aftertaste- fruity, sweet bread, brown sugar.
12th has a bit more dry woodiness, less pungent
and sweet but still much the same with a deep relaxing qi. Very good durability for maocha of this age.
I run out of time in a day.
The next day I do a long steep and it pushes out a mainly
caramel and bitter almost salty woody taste.
The caramel taste is long and fulfilling it reaches in the deeper throat
and lingers in the aftertaste. The
bitterness also goes long throughout the profile. There is even a metallic taste left in the
mouth minutes later.
Nice blended very dynamic and energizing experience. I liked
it a lot. The strongest point is the
vibrantly simulating numbing mouthfeeling which deeps the experience with a
livening complex taste, Qi, and bodyfeeling. The end result is a party in the body
and all the senses are invited.
Peace
1 comment:
Had this maocha from Wistaria recently and it had a very musty storage flavor and was cloudy for several steeps. I wonder if yours was in a different storage warehouse. I'm curious to try it from a cake. Do you know if the cake material is similar?
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