2021 Essence of Tea Morsels: Retaste!

 

The last time David sent a bunch of samples for review was back in 2021and he included a sample of 2021 Essence of Tea Morsels which goes for $168.00 for 200g cake or $0.84/g  (see here).  At that the time I said I would love to try it years later to see how the blend really comes together… so we will see how it is 3 years later…

Dry leaves have a creamy sugars piercing fresh pure odour.

First infusion has a sweet sugars taste over a wet nutty taste the sweetness evolves and returns with a cool breath… a veil of sweet sugar washes over my mouth.  A spacy high with tingling face kicks off. Oily wet mouthfeel.

Second has a sugar honey sweet pear fruity clear pure onset.  Complex layered different pure sweetnesses present simultaneously for great effect.  Mild sticky fluffy mouthfeel mouthfeel deep throat traps some long pear sugar sweetness returning.  Candy tastes are long in the mouth as the liquid cools.  Long pear taste is very delicious pure and undisturbed.  Face tingling and deep sighs with head floating feeling. Floating bodyfeel with spacy mind. Sweet pure complex!

Third infusion has a peachy fruity vibrant taste onset with icing sugar layers underneath.  Very layered sweet initially and long sweet finish.  Peach pear sugar finish is long and evolves into candy in the aftertaste.  Face tingling and head floating feeling.  Deep throat salivation and sweetness.  Spacy vibrating bodyfeel.  A strong slowing of senses. Long minutes long sugar taste.

Fourth infusion has a sweet fruity sugar onset with an oily pungent sort of metalic mid taste and long cooling and sweet tastes.  Woody metalic salty tastes in there now. Spaced out with lots of head and face feelings.  Cooled down it reveals a complex layering of initial sweet tastes and with peach, pear, sugar depth pure tastes.  Mouthwatering saliva forming effect with slight mild sticky chalky modeling and deep throat opening.  Spaced out with increased senses. Long sugar minutes long taste.  Spaced out floating.

Fifth infusion has a woody icing sugar sweet onset when it cools down.  Metalic salty taste.  Spaced out mind. Oily wet coating with a melon sweet and sugar sweet finish.  Slight sticky almost pucker feeling develops.  Long sweet taste.

Sixth infusion has a sweet oily sugar onset with forest metalic mid-profile and some faint bitter woody taste emerging cooling return with sticky almost pucker. Chest beats and deep sighs.  Spaced out sort of heavy head feeling.  Chest expanding.

Seventh infusion has a sugar woody onset the cooled down cup is sweet melon onset with slight woody middle with bland wood taste.woody bland sticky almost dry sort of mouthfeel.

Eighth infusion has a watery sweet onset with a bland woody mid and lingering sweetness. Spacy feeling continues…

Long mug infusion is a bitter bland woody tasting with slight dry aftertaste.  Not as much seeetness but some mild astringency in there underneath.  Heavy head.  

This was the last of the review samples from Essence of Tea.  Thanks David!

Peace