I purchased this 2022 BiYun Hao Man Xiu (approx $256.00 for 357g cake or $0.72/g) sample in my last order from Puerh.uk around a year ago. I didn’t sample it yet because it was kinda a random sample purchase with nothing to compare it to and when I received it it was winter. But I had never tried Man Xiu as a single area before. It was in the blend of the 2013 BiYun Hao Mahei and2015 BiYun Hao Lishan Gong Cha that I have sampled and quite enjoyed.
So I was quite looking forward to it … but when to sample it? This is actually a bit of an issue and that’s why I probably have about 30 samples of stuff I still have not tried yet…if someone sends me something complimentary I try to make that a priority but if Ai buy it sometimes the sample might sit in limbo for a while… But then a 2023 ChenYuan Hao ManXiu came to my doorstep and gave me an excuse to sample and compare. So before I started into the 2023 ChenYuan Hao samples I sampled this one…
Dry leaves smell very intensely sweet with a creamy candy odour but also a deep forest medical depth. Really deep and delicious smells.
First infusion is a creamy forest pungent watery onset with a faint fading from the aftertaste sweetness. There is a fluffy mouthfeel. Very faint cooling throat.
Second has a watery faint woody taste with faint grains and Forest hard to grasp breath taste. Nice mellow slight spacy mind. No bitterness nor astringency.
Third infusion has a watery strawberry candy like sweet taste that lingers and faded into the breath there is also a greener forest taste underneath. The mouthfeel has a sticky fine picker which really carries that strawberries candy sweet note long into the breath. Relaxing and slight mellow stoning feeling.
4th infusion has a creamy almost peachy candy taste now faintly sour with a slightly stick fine picker but not really astringent at all. It makes for a very nice long creamy candy sweetness. It makes for a pop of peachy orange long sweetness that lingers deeper in the throat and sweeps a slightly stoning and mellow qi with clear visual acuity. Super tasting, great mouth and throat feel with great Qi. It’s got the package.
5th has a Forest sweet soapy creamy taste. Some pops of peachy orange. There is a slightly sticky picker mouthfeeling. Some bland wordy Forest with long cool breath with sweetness on the edges of my lips. Nice slight high feeling.
6th has a woody watery flat almost cereals grains taste with a peachy fruit sweet that emerges from it more in the returning taste than initial and not as long in the aftertaste now either. Subtle sticky mouthfeel with very slight dryness. Nice heat beats and chest warm expansions.
7th has a woody grains cereal taste. Not too much sweetness left with a faint dry sticky coating. Nice Qi which is more energizing than stoning as it builds through the session.
8th is a long thermos overnight.. hours later it has a long woody and strawberry sweet taste. Energy and focus some chest opening Qi.
The next morning it has a woody forest moss taste with not really much bitter or astringency and a low lingering lime and creamy pastry sweetness with a long cool breath.
Peace
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