Last year I declared the 2023 ChenYuan Hao Chawangshu as “top tier Chawangshu”! I tried this 2024 ChenYuan Hao ChaWangShu which goes for $220.00 for 100g cake or $2.20/g after sampling the 2024 ChenYuan Hao HuangShan Chawangshu of the same price. I will compare this and the 2024 Essence of Tea following the notes.
Dry leaves have a cooling pungent almost evergreen forest odour under sweet creamy forest odours.
Rinsed leaves have a bready sweet pungent odour.
First infusion has a watery creamy melon oily viscous feeling and long cool breath with return of almost candy sweet melon. Lots of candy sweet finish!
Second infusion is a bitter sweet pop of sweet melon with a forest cooling long taste. Strong cooling pungent with a return of melon candy. Mouthfeel is faintly puckering/ gripping. Oily viscus feeling with sweet candy coming out. Open unraveling chest feeling warm chest expansion with done face tingling and stronger heavy spacy a bit slowing.
Third infusion is a pungent spice woody onset with bitter sweet and slight pucker griping mouth. Heavy and slowing in the body also quite warming in the face and chest. Astringent pucker is building early with candy melon finish and cooling throat. Long sweet candy in the cooled off cup.
Fourth has a butter cup creamy sweet onset the cooled down cup is really smooth melon creamy sweet buttercup. Oily viscous mouthfeel cooling breath and finish and heavy slowing qi. Sweet almost lime melon candy finish. Warming Qi. Smooth visuals sweet cohesiveness.
Fifth has a watery creamy buttercup. There is a melon creamy sweetness throughout with a mouthwatering candy melon finish. Heavy spaced out feeling. Slight dry sticky roof of mouth. Chest heart beats with warming chest and face.
Sixth has a creamy buttercup woody melon viscus sweet taste. Slight sour melon with cooling breath and throat. Creamy smooth melon candy with slowing warming heavy qi feeling.
Seventh is a sweet melon sour creamy candy mouthwatering feeling sticky roof but not dry or gripping. Cooling throat and lingering candywoody. Heavy space out with warming chest opening and face warming.
Eighth is a sweet oily viscus watery feeling… warming qi spacy but loosing power. Woodsy melon sweetness still cool breath. Candy melon creamy fade out in the cooled cup . Warming face and chest spacy feeling slight mild high.
I put the spent leaf into a long mug infusion and it comes out like bland woody with slight tight mouthfeel and faint lingering sweet taste in mouth. As it cools it mainly turns into bitter wood. Overnight it is more viscous faint sweet melon woody.
Vs 2024 ChenYuan Hao HuangShan Chawangshu- the Huangshan has more complex and opposing features of taste and Qi. The HuangShan has much better stamina but it could indicate a wider blend. I enjoyed the strength and complexity of the HuangShan more. The Chawangshu featured here is more of a classic Chawangshu taste and feel with the unique feature being its strong warming energy which I really enjoyed!
Vs 2024 Essence of Tea Chawangshu - My favourite of the bunch might actually be 2024 Essence of Tea ChaWangShu - like this 2023 ChenYuan Hao Chawangshu it has a very classic taste and feel of Chawangshu but it’s Qi is very strongly euphoric! I enjoyed the 2024 ChenYuan HuangShan Almost as much. All of these Chawangshu are actually of very high quality but it depends what you are looking for. I believe from this sampling that the 2024 Chawangshu growing season is better than the 2023. So amazing!!!!
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