This 2023 Tea Encounter Naka goes for $97.00 for 200g cake or $0.49/g. This was the last of the 2023 Tea Encounter samples that I received for review on this blog…. And it is a damn tasty one… and its energetics are nice as well …
Dry leaves smell of spicy layered pungent notes.
First infusion has very spicy notes which layer with warm and cool type pungency. Peppery with a lemon drop candy or cough lozenge taste. Flavourful with an almost numbing mouthfeel. Chest and Heart beats.
Second infusion has a creamy spicy peppery onset with slight mouthfeel of numbness. Heat beats into throat. Energy surge. Some bitterness is felt in the stomach- a bitter raw and have to eat something.
Third infusion has a watery almost floral modest bitterness. Numb and sticky mouthfeeling. Strong chesty energy with energetic mind feeling. Almost lime creamy almost candy not that sweetness. Strong energy. The bitterness and astringency is slightly hard on the stomach.
Fourth infusion has a spicy onset with bready sl sweet slightly bitter notes. Strong energy in the head also a bit spacy in the head now too.
The fifth infusion is a bit soapy floral woody pucker. More astringency here. Soapy floral watery bitter astringency which is a bit drying in the mouth now. Still some energy push- not as much.
The sixth has a woody faint floral with cool faint woody breath. Sandy a bit dry mouth coating. Energy is waning a bit now.
The seventh infusion is a long overnight thermos steeping. It gives off a smooth creamy green forest sweetness that builds in the mouth with sugar edges in the mouth and an equally strong almost kumquat citrus subtle sourness and astringency. The taste is nicely condensed here with lots of salivating mouthfeel. Very tasty to me! There is a long sweet and sour taste with the end result of lots of salivation.
Overall So tasty with that stronger energy in the head and energy surge.
Peace
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