This is a later Spring flush of Chawangshu. I remember 15years ago trying puerh from the same garden Early Spring, Summer, and Fall… the Summer Flush is really significantly less complex and less intense…. Lots of space. It was a good education at the time…. Last time a western puerh vendor sold a summer flush, I belive, was when Tea Urchin sold that 2011 “Four Peaks” Summer Lao Man E… it was a popular tea for a great price. Let’s see if this 2022 Tea Encounter Chawangshu “Late Nectar” that goes for $70.00 for 200g cake or $0.35/g. Dry leaves smell of sweet syrupy peachy odour with lesser creamy pungent odours… very delicious smelling.
First infusion has a mild sandy woody watery taste there are edges of sweetness and bitter-woodiness but overall has a watery bland taste in this early infusion. Watery but slightly tugging mouthfeelng with a sandy mild grit.
Second infusion has a watery pungent woody sandy taste with distant edges of sweetness. There is a returning watery squash taste with faint sweet edges. The mouthfeel is watery with a sandiness to it, its pretty mild in the mouth. There is a woody-sand bitterness with edges of sweetness in the aftertaste minutes later.
The third infusion is left to cool and gives off an oily woody taste there is this woody furniture varnish sort of taste that is a bit bitter-bland in the aftertaste with faint cooling edges and hard to grasp edges of sweet peach. Relaxing feeling with a bit of spaciness. Dry sandy slightly grabbing mouthfeel. The mouthfeel is a bit on the thinner side of things.
The fourth infusion is left to cool and has a mild cool pungent and woody-pill-wood bark bitterness to it. It kind of finishes papery in the mouth with sweet quash and melon edges. Thin sandy dry mouthfeeling. Mild relaxing with some heart beats.
5th has a watery oily mild woody bland taste with edges of sweetness. There is a mild underlying coolness. The returning sweetness has edges of peaches but mainly dry woody bland tastes. Dry thin gripping mouthfeeling.
6th is left to cool and has a bitter woody bark tasting with edges of sweetness on the breath. Thin sandy mild gripping mouthfeeling. Mild relaxing with some heart beats.
7th is left to cool and is a woody bark bland tasting with some peachy sugar edges. The taste is pretty straightforward so is the Qi and mouthfeeling. Simple no fuss drink now.
8th is a woody bitter bark mild tasting intial taste that is over a drying mild mouthfeeling with pear, peach and sugary edges in the returning sweetness. The aftertaste is mainly dry woody with some sweet edges. Mild taste. A bit of a relaxing feeling with mild heart sensations.
9th has a bitter woody onset with a flat grainy sand thin mouthfeeling. Heart beats are more obvious after a few quick infusions. Nice relaxing mind with simulating Heart feeling. Not much for throatfeeling in this simple puerh.
10th 20 second steeping by accident… bitter woody but more fruity peachy pear edges. More drying puckering mouthfeeling that kicks at the guts a bit. Strong Heart beats now! Nice euphoria building in the mind… not bad.
11th is cooled down and gives off a bitter woody pill bitterness with peachy edges over a flat gripping dry mouthfeeling. Peaches and pears come out in the aftertaste and returning sweetness.
Mug steeping of the spent leaves give off a woody slightly pungent almost seaweed vegetal taste. There isn’t much sweetness at all just faint edges and its overall bitter woody with a tree bark and seasweeds taste with a dry puckering mouthfeeling. The Qi now has an edge of euphoria to it.
Overall, this is a very simple and straight forward puerh with simple taste and mouthfeeling with very little sweetness. The Qi is very mild at first but builds as the session goes and becomes stronger in the Chest giving you an invigorating feeling but also slowly builds in the mind into a mild euphoria. The Qi gives you some hints at Chawangshu character for sure.
I do a mug steeping of fresh leaves a few weeks later and realize that this is really a puerh for mug steeping in the summer...
Vs 2022 Tea Encounter Chawangshu XiaoShu- these are surprisingly quite different beasts and I wonder if they are from the same material. The Late Nectar has much less typical Chawangshu character than the Xiaoshu.
Peace
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