2011 Yang Qing Hao Jin Ya

This 2011 Yang Qing Hao Jin Ya goes for $420.00 for 500g or $0.84/g.

Tight compressed Dry leaves have a strong piercing sweet odour with deep grapes and hay and forest odours!

First infusion is a flash infusion as per always and is still mainly watery due to the very tight compression but has light watery sweet honey taste.  

Second infusion has a watery sweet honey.  Faint smoke pure sweet.

Third infusion is left to cool and has a mild sweet almost forest sweet taste with subtle smoke.  

Fourth infusion is left to cool and is a sweet mild smoke water with a long smooth mild honey sweet taste.  Honey sweetness.  Mild qi with clear watery sweet honey smoke taste.

5th infusion has a watery sweet honey taste watery clear pure with a heavy mind slowing qi.  Like mind and body is stuck in honey.  Opening chest feeling. Strong qi is quietly building up.

6th has a smoke and honey taste with a heavy body and mind feeling qi.  Silty mouthfeel with smooth smoke and honey and strong heavy feeling.

7th the pot clogged a bit… it has a rich woody resin smooth taste with a bit of bitterness and brown sugar and a long delicious honey taste throughout in a silty wet mouthfeel with a taste that gets stuck in the gums. Big chest opening feeling with some out of body and face tingling qi- heavy glue feeling in the body.

8th infusion has a honey sweet profile smooth long honey with faint smoke mouthwatering feeling.  Big qi in face, heavy body big chest expansiveness! Surging deep uplift.

9th is left to cool and is sweet oily silty honey.  Very delicious tasting with a smooth mouthfeel and long honey sweet taste.

10th has a long sweet honey taste very smooth but still very present mouthfeel.  Silty oily texture and long honey with face Qi opening chest light limbs and heavy shoulders and head. It’s so good!

11th has a wiody slight smoke initial taste with long honey sweetness underneath.  Silty almost dry sandy mouthfeel big qi sensations.  In face, shoulders, limbs and chest!

12th is left to cool and gives off a nice long honey taste.  Subtle smoke and wood.  Silty sandy oily texture.  Big Qi feeling still!

13th is really sweet honey woody hard to find smoke.  Long sweet taste.  

14th has a sweet honey taste nice long sweet honey… yummy the smoke is harder to spot now but it’s there with woody,  sweetness. Long on the breath steady honey.

15th woody sweet honey so good! Very high grade old tree Bulang me thinks!

Overnight mug steeping is very vibrantly sweet oily resin smoke.  Full taste, feel and Big Qi! So delicious!

This is one of my favourite of all Yang Qing Haos productions but probably too expensive for me to purchase… turns out it’s not as expensive as I thought and this one is definitely on my radar to purchase.

Peace