2004 Yao’an FuYuanChang Yiwu: Malaysian Factory Smoker

 I actually sampled this 2004 FuYuanChang Yiwu in a blind sampling from Marco last year.  I understood it well even as a blind sampling but it also piqued my curiosity as to what the other cakes in the Colours of Malaysia Sample Set might be like?  So I finally ended up purchasing a set!  After finishing these notes I went back and read my blind notes from last year on this same puerh and they are much better!  Haha!  Part of it simply speaks to how my evaluative sessions at work have gone downhill a bit but mainly it also speaks to the superiority of blind sampling.  There is something about blind sampling that really dials you into a session…

Dry leaves have a woody faint odour.

First infusion has a watery sweet talc cherry with a faint woody body.  Watery mouthfeeling with faint incense smoke in the distance.  Long sweet candy is left on the breath.

Second infusion has a rich woody oily almost bitter coco taste there are some resin woody notes in there. The mouthfeel has tightened up.  There is significant incense ash smoke.  Some throat simulations with slight drying mouthfeel.  Strong alerting energy.

Third infusion is left to cool and gives off a rich woody bitter-sweet incense smoke.  Silty a bit dry coating.  Strong energetic feeling. Some almost cinnamon spice in the woody not that sweet finish.   There is that talc powdery sweetness lingering throughout.

4th is left to cool and gives off a sweet woody incense taste not as bitter but woody incense. It has a creamy cherry talc powdery faintly underneath.  Qi is a bit spacy in the mind but mainly moderatly energetic.

5th is left to cool and gives off watery sweet woody almost floral sweet taste.  Smoke incense is substantial. Subtle mind spacy and mildly energetic.  Silty almost sandy feeling in the mouth.

6th is put into an overnight thermos and sipping from it a few hours later there is lots of smoky char with slight dry gripping mouthfeel.  Some sweetness tries to push through but can’t push past the smoke.

So far, early on here, this is one is winning the speed test out of the tasting set.

Marco’s (Late Steeps) Tasting notes

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