2005 Chenyuan Hao Shanzhong Chuanqi TeasWeLike vs Puerh.uk

I picked up a cake of the 2005 ChenYuan Hao ShanzhongChuanqi from Puerh.uk. and posted a review on this cake here.  I picked up a few quarter cakes of 2005ChenYuan Hao Shanzhong Chuanqi from Teas We Like to compare the storage and to enjoy.  These notes are from Teas We Like storage.  This is going to be awesome…

I picked up a Dry leaves smell of dark woody odours.

First infusion has a woody icing sugar taste there is a strong nutty finish in the mouth with layers of wood and a few layers of sweet icing sugar.  The mouthfeeling is silky.

The second infusion has a layers sweet nutty then almost cherry taste with pops of sweet cherry and icing sugar layers over a base of deep dark woody tastes.  It makes the mouth salivate.  Nice euphoria feeling early in the session.  The cooled down cup of tea is darker woodier layers with nutty sweetness first then fait cooling and some icing sugar layers.  Nice silky feeling with distant not really bitterness.

The third infusion has a sour woody layered onset with a nutty woody chestnut type of taste there are fainter cherry tastes and some faint coco tastes a well.  There is faint cooling and a returning creamy icing sugar and cherry finish.  Nice lubricating oily feeling with some faint dry coating underneath.  A slow to appear very distant bitterness lingers at the end.  The coco taste lingers in the mouth along with a intermittently appearing cherry and some background icing sugar.  Nice mild euphoria feeling.

The fourth infusion was left to cool and has a nutty hazelnut sweetness with layers of darker woods.  There is a bit of cooling then some dark cherry taste mixed with coco with some returning saliva producing.  The taste has a nice richness to it with nutty tastes, woody tastes, fruity and surgar tastes.  Moderately oily texture with some dryness underneath .  Mild happy euphoria is building up.  Lingering background faint bitterness.

6^th is left to cool and has this nutty, dark layered woody with emerging coco and faint dark cherry with some lesser cooling as the tighter mouthfeeling reveals itself and the mid-throat opens.  A long icing sugar sweetness lingers with hints at sour fruit faint coco woods.  Layered and complex taste with a strong wave of stupefying Qi building now with warming feeling- face warm.  Nice tidal wave of Qi hits hard and the chest expands and heart races. There’s the sneak attack, right there!

7^th is left to cool and gives off a sweet sugar and woody coco taste with distant bitterness.  There is a nice oilier feeling and slight tugging mouthfeeling with mid-deep throat feeling underneath.

8^th has a woody fruity a bit sour and turns a bit bitter coco.  Has a long sugary taste, nice oily texture, nice chocolate darker woody taste to it.  Has a woody tree almost vegetal taste in there now.  Nice saliva producing.  I am in a bit of a slowed useless stupor with chest sensations, Heart beats, and heavy arms/limbs.  Nice long sugar sweet aftertaste with woody coco subtle bitterness.

9^th is left to cool and is brown sugars woody layers and almost chocolate cocos.  Nice faint coolness and nice sweet sugared layering.  Nice mild uselessness and Heart beats.

10^th is more woody almost vegetal woody underneath but with a flat bitterness throughout.  There is some oily almost fruity notes.  A flat bitter bland vegetal note lingers in the breath with very faint hard to pull out sweetness.  Nice spacy relaxation now.

11^th has a bland woody vegetal almost coco woody not that really sweet.  I would say a bland woody coco taste is now the dominant. Some incense notes are noticeable now.  Less oily texture and more tight tongue feeling.

12^th has a vegetal woody incense bland taste with brown sugary sweet underneath.  Has mainly a woody bland vegetal incense mild bitter taste now with almost no sweetness.  Nice slowly relaxation with still some arms and chest feelings…

Not as nuanced and as obviously complex as the puerh.uk but heavier on the deeper beefier notes.  The Puerh.uk version has much more vibrancy and higher fruitier notes where the Teas We Like version has more deep mysterious notes.  I think I like the Puerh.uk storage a bit better- its doing a bit better on the speed test, if that says anything.  Fun to compare!

Peace