2004 Yang Qing Hao Jinhao Chawang

 This one also sold out a few years ago and was a bit cheaper than the others and is an outlier production of Yang Qing Haos 2004 line…

Dry leaves have a sweet cardboard odour to them.

Rinsed leaves have a sort of floral and roasted nut odour.

First infusion has a watery sort of nutty sweet taste with slightly sandy mouthfeel and hard to grasp almost nutty floral sweetness.

Second has a light watery woody slight sour floral taste with a creamy sweet finish.  Very light and spacious flavours.  Cooled down it finishes more melon fruity and dry wood.  Wet mouthfeel with fine sand on tongue.  Warm energy in the face.

Third infusion has a watery sour fruity taste.  That fruity taste is quite clear and oily pear.  Oily mouthfeel.  Spaced out flavour nuances.  Creamy pear and peach notes.  Creamy sweet finish. Mild peaceful feeling.

Fourth infusion has a peach and pear clear oily taste.  Long creamy sweet aftertaste some sugars and peach and pear with some cooling and mouthwatering.  Simple pure clear and delicious flavours.  Some arm tingling.

5th is left to cool and has a peachy pear oily pure taste.  Oily mouthfeeling compliments the pure fruit flavours nicely.  Some soft faint sand on the tongue.  Long sweet bready creamy fruity almost fruitbread aftertaste. Slight warming spacy energy.  Some sensations in forearms.

6th is left to cool and has a fruity pear and peach oily taste.  Pure clear enjoyable flavours.  A bit relaxing Qi.  Slight bready sweet aftertaste. Oily mouthfeel.

7th has a woody almost pungent oily sweet fruit pear and peach.  Spacy relaxing.  Slight fine sand on tongue some faint bodyfeel in arms.

8th has a woody almost pungent sweet taste slight oily and fine sand tongue.Relaxing.

9th is left to cool and is woidy with some peachy pear oily sweet taste.

I put the rest into a long mug steeping… it comes out sweet and a bit floral not really any heavier Yang Qing Hao storage tastes.   There is some pungency and some root beers. Swelling chest feeling.

Overall, this less expensive 2004 has done quite well with age there is a reason it’s sold out for the lower price it sold for.  I enjoy it for what it is and it seemed to improved with a bit of age.

Peace