This 2023 ChenYuan Hao Cha Wang Shu goes for approx $784.00 for 357 g cake or $2.20/g. Cha Wang Shu is one of my favourite puerh producing areas so I was really looking forward to this free sample…
Dry leaves have pop of creamy sweet fruit a faint Forest creamy sweet note.
The wet leaves have that cream almost melon Forest familiar odour.
First infusion has a creamy sweet fruit melon dense taste with long creamy dense fruity melon expanding and long sweet taste with that edge of potato and long pronounced deep throat breath- wow first infusion is really good right off the bay. Deep sweetnesss in the deep throat linger. Qi releases the shoulders a bit and spaces me out. Fluffy dense mouthfeel with deep saliva producing. Really good!
Second infusion has a strong sweet melon potato Forest dense taste. That layers on the tongue and mouth with lots of deep creamy, potato, Forest and melon fruity taste. Long and building tastes with very deep throat feeling. Deep relaxing sighs. Dense thick fluffy almost chalky feeling in the mouth. Deep throat sweetness. Relaxing body feeling. Shoulders release tension. Mind free. Top tier ChaWangShu!
The cooled down second infusion infusion has a fruity melon sweet creamy woody almost slight sour taste with long dense sweetness and long deep sweet dense aftertaste. Chalky fluffy full mouthfeeling- deep throat opening coolness and sweetness. Chest expansion with shoulders dropping and deep sighs. Mind feeling feeling.
Third infusion has a dense woody creamy melon sweetness with a subtle sour pop then long return of creamy melon almost floral sweetness. Smooth transition to a long deep sweetness in the throat and coming out of the dense fluffy sticky mouth and throat feeling. Mind feeling body tension busting. Chest expanding and shoulder and limbs lightness. I feel melted from the Qi- it’s really good.
Fourth infusion has a mellow woody sweet taste with a sticky slippery mouthfeel now. Mainly woody watery now. There is still a long cool deep throat sweetness but much muted. Strong Qi with spacy alert high now.
5th is a woody watery with very faint sweetness on the breath deep throat opening with cooling breath. Mouthfeel is sticky and almost sl drying sand with a bit gripping. Big relaxing spacey effect right now.
6th is put into a long thermos steeping… an hour later it is a bitter woody creamy melon potato dense taste with gripping mouthfeel. Big Qi makes me happy and high. Light limbs and chest and shoulders.
Peace
I havent had the 2023 but I've had 2016 and 2021 from CYH and boy were they good. So much better than various essence of tea and yiwu mountain tea CWS I've tried. Less astringent, brighter energy, more flavour, more clarity, overall can be steeped long by getting only bitterness but never unpleasant
ReplyDeletewill you do a ranking of the CYH teas? it sounds like they are all very good and I really dont know where to start
Roadie,
ReplyDeleteI love your enthusiasm! Maybe I will rank them when I’m done tasting.
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