Dry leaves are a deep strong plum and prune odour.
Rinsed leaves have a fruity plum and prune odour.
First infusion is a very oily fruity plum taste. Tastes of Menghai plumpness! Long lingering clear fruity plum….
Second infusion has a bitter sour plum onset with a juicy viscus texture. Thick mouthfeel with lots of saliva producing. Bitter and sour here… pot was slightly clogged….
Third infusion has a woody sour bitter very plum/ prune taste. Texture oily viscus with mouthwatering. Some mild pucker astringency cool breath. Qi is mildly uplifting.
Fourth has a fruity plum and sorta Menghai dirt taste. Simple plumb ling fruity bitter sweet taste very faint astringency with mouthwatering uplifting qi. Some strawberries and mild bitterness in the aftertaste minutes later. Cooled down it is much fruitier with peach tastes with an almost soapy peachy plum finish. Chest beats with uplifting energy. Some face numbness.
Fifth infusion has a woody bitter, fruity plum and sort of almost peach tastes. Slight sandy grainy sticky texture. Chest beats and uplifting energy. Face mild tingling.
Sixth is a bitter dirt almost coco syrup peach plum. Bitter is at least as strong as sweet fruits. Big chest beats and energy boost up. Slight anxiety energy overflow. Cooled down is more coco bitterness initially and smoother peachy fruitiness in the return. Big chesty beats and energy overflow jitters! Long bitter chocolatey breath.
Seventh has a fruity almost spoilt peachy plum dirt oily texture with bitter coco. Big jittery chest beats. Chalky stick grainy mouthfeel.
8th is a bitter slight gripping with almost medicinal woody cooling throat tugging bitter coco. Puckering here. Big chesty smithing energy anxieties. Strong surge! The cooled down infusion left for hours in the cup is very sweet very orange fresh fruity juice and long candy aftertaste with an orange chocolate like one of those Terry’s Chocolate Oranges.
9th is a flash steep the next day… left to cool it’s a very sweet fruity orange and passion fruit taste with long candy finish and chalky mouthfeel. Mild uplifting energy.
10th is left to cool and has a juicy orange and passion fruits taste that turns into a long candy finish.
11th is a sweet creamy orange and candy silty finish. Mild uplifting.
12th is a long thermos steeping and it comes out bitter woody dirt with a floral almost orange taste. Flat bitter tongue feeling. Big chest feeling and energy surge. Very bitter when warm…. Very bitter…
This is an outlier Yang Qing Hao production that is a bitter classic Menghai tasting and has that is very strong chesty jittery Qi…. Turns out the site says it’s from Hua Zhu Liang Zi… I like that producing area…
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