2024 Tea Encounter Baishahe: Thick Oily Full Textures

This 2024 Tea Encounter GuaFengZhai BaiShaHe goes for  $91.59 for 250 g cake or $0.37.  This is a complimentary sample of a specific GuaFengzhai garden…

Dry leaves have a light airy sweet sugar odour with a distant cooling pungent forest smell.

Rinsed leaves have a light airy minty spicy but mainly sugar sweet odour.

First infusion was left to cool down and has a pungent creamy surgar milky smooth taste.  Nice smooth oily texture with lots of thicker saliva producing.  Some deeper throat stimulation.  Forest cooling pungent left in the mouth.  Milky creamy. Slight high floating feeling with.

Second infusion has a spicy oily milky creamy sweet onset very oily and fills the mouth with oily dense saliva!  Milky viscus creamy.  Has a spicy forest onset with faint fruiy and potato complexity in the distance.  Cooled down it is a pungent forest spicy with creamy almost potato and floral.  Slight high feeling.  Shoulders float.  Bit of body floating.

Third infusion has a sweet and spicy taste with a smooth oily saliva producing effect. There is a creamy floral spicy pungent.  Mouthfeel is really oily, saliva, viscus and very enjoyable. High feeling with somebody float.

Four is left to cool and has a strong spicy pungent taste with a sweet lower tropical fruity taste.  The mouthfeel is dense and flavour thick.  High uplift feeling with a flora ting tingling body feel.  Shoulder float up.  

Fifth infusion has a creamy melon pungent/spice dense taste and feel. There is a thick oily denser mouthfeeling the throat is less in play here but you almost forget about it with all the salivating oily viscous mouth action.  Floral and melon and maybe potato for a sweet complexity in the dense flavour. High happy floating feeling.

Sixth infusion has a warming spicy onset with a dense sweet taste of tropical fruit, melon, potato, forest but mainly spicy.  Nice oily mouthwatering thick viscus mouthfeel.   High happy feeling with some strong chest beasts and lesser lingering creamy melon spice finish.

Seventh is a spicy melon sweet taste with a creamy oily mouthwatering thing. Sweet thick creamy melon, spice, forest creamy sweet dense taste.  Oily, mouthwatering creamy texture.  Happy high feeling with subtle body floating.

Eighth has a sugar sweet onset with the direction towards a melon forest spicy dense taste with some faint bitterness emerging.  Happy high feeling with some energy building.  Mouthfeel is more silty sticky now and less viscus and oily or milky.

8th is left to cool and has a slightly sour sweet potato melon forest complex dense taste and feel still but it has lost a lot of that oily creamy milky texture but still a nice thicker silty full mouthfeeling.  Happy high with chest beats and shoulder Qi.  Is more stimulating and energizing now.  

9th has a melon sweet oily onset with mouthwatering thick oily texture.  Slight forest, spice, potato, creamy sweet complexity with slight bitter edge.  Full mouthfeeling.  High happy energetic feeling.

The long mug steeping of spent leaves is oily and sweet with a thick chalky full mouthfeeling.  Lots of sweetness in here as well.  Full mouthfeel with a nice sweet taste with some complexity of florals and forest tastes.  Qi here is still strong and makes me feel a happy high feeling.  Heavy shoulders.  Thick rich fruity pops come and leave with the overall thick full sweetness.  Very salivating oily and quite satisfying. 

This was a puerh all about the thick layered oily textures and mouthfeels and how the sweetness interacts with it.  The happy high feeling is very much in line with GuaFengZhai feeling… so enjoyable this was one of my favourites of these samples!

Peace