2025 Tea Encounter Laos Gushu - Tianmenshan

Every year I look forward to trying this Laos Gushu blend… this 2025 Tea Encounter Laos Gushu goes for $109.00 for 357g proper cake or $0.31/g.  Always an easy ride..

Dry leaves have a creamy almost faint tropical fruity taste with a pungent almost barnyard gamey faint odour.  Delicious…

Rinsed leaves bring out those tropical sweet notes but also deeper odours as well faint barnyard deep forest.

First infusion has a sharp woody slippery sweetness with an oily mouthfeel banana tropical flavours onset. Then comes a lubricating and saliva producing with tropical faint banana finish over a sticky slippery mouthfeel minutes later. Mild chest flutters.

Second infusion has a sweet quick bitter almost metallic onset with a creamy slippery banana tropical sweet taste distant forest barnyard.  Chest fluttering.  Chest expanding feeling with mild consciousness expanding feeling. Mild bitterness throughout. Cooled down liquid is a zesty spicy cooling pungent with orange peel and marmalade jam sweet tastes. 

Third infusion is a candy sweet tropical chalky mild bitterness.  Complex layered taste with banana tropical and faintly bitter barnyard long aftertaste.  Chest expanding feeling. Long tropical chalky banana taste.

Fourth infusion is left to cool and is a sweet metallic bitter orange peel there are forest, barnyard, tropical fruit and bitter citrus peel tastes over a sticky mouthfeel.  

5th is a sweet banana faint barnyard/ forest left to cool it has a more creamy sugary moderate sweet taste.  With a mild bitterness and sticky mouthfeel. A chalky almost barnyard sweet taste lingers minutes later.   Some chest expanding and relaxing a bit high feeling.

6th infusion has a pungent sweet taste cooled down it is a sweet almost floral melon honey taste with mild bitterness and returns as a creamy chalky sweet taste. Slippery mouthfeel and long sweet almost barnyard forest bitterness.

7th is left to cool and is a sweet mild banana chalky mild bitterness with a forest almost gamey taste. A bland sort of forest gamey taste left in the mouth.  A mild relaxing high with chest expanding feeling. 

8th is a watery mildly bitter with banana and tropical fruits emerging and fading out in the aftertaste where bitter bland and woody barnyard remains.  Relaxing.

9th is a long thermos steeping and is a pungent fairly bitter with sweetness and barnyard taste underneath.  Mild relaxing focus with chest Qi.

Peace