Wednesday, October 4, 2023

2018 ChenYuan Hao Bingdao Dragonball

  


I purchased this very expensive 2018 ChenYuan Hao BingDao Dragonball ($35.00 for 8 g) from Puerh.uk in hopes it contains a very good BingDao session and was not disappointed.  


Dry leaves have a creamy almost orange forest aroma.

Rises leaves are quite sweet with an orange and pastry aroma.

First infusion at 20 seconds is left to cool and has a creamy coppery almost sweet bread taste.  Some Forest pure tastes as well.  Slight sticky slippery feeling in the mouth.

Second infusion at 15 seconds has a water almost orange mild sweet taste.  There is a faint creamy cake pastry sweetness that finishes in the mouth.

Third infusion is 10 seconds and is then left to cool and has a fruity almost pastry sweet profile.  Clear mild sticky mouthfeeling and a faint cool breath.  Qi is mild and makes the body feel light and the mind content in this moment.


Fourth infusion 5 seconds infusion has a fruity orange and almost pastry type sweetness.  No bitterness or astringency in an area where lots of puerh material usually has at least some base astringency.  That’s what makes this one special.  Cool creamy sweet taste in mouth minutes later on the breath.  An evolving long sweet return.  Sticky and slightly slippery mouthfeel.  Open throat feeling.  Peaceful relaxing Qi.  Long cascading creamy sweet cool breath.  This is that characteristic feature of BingDao area puerh and it’s featured beautifully here.

5th infusion is at flash infusion and has a woody onset with a long cool and creamy breath sweetness with a bit of orange taste.  Really nice! A touch faintly drying mouth.  

6th has a woody watery not that sweet taste it’s has a bit of pond/ marshland coppery watery taste.  Mild slippery sticky feel.  Mild relaxing Qi.

7th has a watery woody flat sweet taste.  Some faint cooling sweet finish.  Nice slight slippery feeling.  Mild happy Qi.  Not really any bodyfeeling.  Pure clear taste.


8th is a long hours long steeping and it comes out a wood drying with only hard to grasp sweetness and not much Qi left in here.

Peace

No comments: