This sample of 2010 BiYun Hao Chawangshu was the other mid-aged BiYun Hao production I picked up from Liquid Proust (the other one being this very well done ethereal Yiwu the 2008 BiYun Hao Daqishu). This one turned out to be one of my favourite of the BiYun Hao that I’ve tried but with that name of Chawangshu it must be at least a bit expensive?
Dry leaves smell of paper with a almost minty wood sweetness.
First infusion has a woody honey onset with a pop of melon with a paper mid profile and cooling long breath finish with a chestnut and caramel sweet finish that is oily and expensive in the breath. Nice melting sweetness! Deep throat breath feeling. Nice strong relaxing with relaxing muscles body feeling. Long rolling caramel and chestnut.
Second infusion has a minty numbing onset with a sweet melon pop and paper and Forest vegetal mid body. Nice full chalky mouthfeeling with a subtle throat gripping. There is a chestnut and almost coco sweetfinish with glimpses of caramel. The minty fresh onset sort of lingers long from the onset. Nice relaxing feeling and face warmth and slight tingling.
Third infusion was left to cool and has a very maple syrup honey and woody paper onset with a minty woody Forest body. Nice long sauntering profile with mouth water effects! Deep breath coolness and caramel and almost coco sweet finish. Nice deep body relaxing.
4th infusion has a caramel and paper onset with watery oily mouthfeeling and a long elegant release of caramel chestnut coco and wood. Nice clear and pure flavours. There is a mid profile of paper and forest. Nice deep open throat with mild stimulation on top and mid throat. Long taste and evolves and is held by the throat and saliva. Nice warming face feeling with relaxing body feeling and nice subtle euphoria.
5th has a rich caramel onset with woody brassy body. There is a splash of sweetness almost like melon woody paper base taste supports the motion of sweet releases of caramel and almost nutty almost fruity. Long faint coolness throughout with a soft drying chalky mouthfeeling a subtle stimulation and opening of mid and deeper throat with nice saliva producing.
6th has a pungent fresh coolness that comes initially with caramel and bland woody sweetness. The sweetness expands in the throat and breath. Nice mossy slight dry mouthfeeling deep throat breath. Nice chest gob expanding feeling. No bitter or astringency at all but feels very full and satisfying- very nice. Nice mild euphoria.
7th has a caramel oily onset with faint minty Forest emerging. Nice long evolving caramel and almost hazelnut and fro but not quite. Clear single estate profile nice euphoria and strong chest gob centre building. Nice full mossy mouthfeeling very clear profile and deep throat’s opening. Really enjoying this.
8th has a fruity melon taste with a woody coco under belly. Mouthwatering pop. Nice subtle caramel notes that mingle with coco. Very nice mossy mild but full mouthfeeling very clear pure flavours. Chest energy gob feeling is super interesting body feeling subtle euphoria. Very clear energy, taste, direction.
9th nice pungent cooling woody honey sweetness with such a nice oily clear taste. There is a coco and caramel sweetness that evolves here. Nice mild euphoria and chest centre energy. Mossy mild full mouth. No astringency and very clear flavour.
10th has an oily almost melon woody taste that feels full and turns more coco caramel. Nice forest paper base taste with a mouthfeel that starts mossy and ends a bit drying with saliva in the back throat and a bit of a warm face and trapped chest energy build up.
11th is cooled down it tastes of woody papery melon the taste is layered and moves towards coco caramel. Warming face with energy building chest sensation. Mild euphoria.
12th is cooled and has a melon papery woody fruity full onset with saliva producing effects that bring a bitter coco aftertaste. Mossy mouthfeeling becomes more sticky gripping. Warm chest and face with chest energy blob and face tingling.
13th has a watery oily honey taste. It tastes more lubricating with an almost melon woody taste. Strangly is more oily with less taste. Warming qi now especially in the face.
14th has an oily fruity taste with some coco popping up long oily feeling with juicy melon and lots of saliva.
I mug steep out the spent leaves and do a few overnight steepings. Still lots of power nice mouthfeeling and lots of sweet depth and Qi power…
This has to be one of my top favourite of the Bi Yun Hao that I have tried! Liquid Proust must have done a pretty good job of vetting the Bi Yun Hao to get these two really nice mid-aged examples! Thanks Andrew. Who will be the first western vendor to offer such a thing???
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