2025 vs 2024 Tea Encounter Walong

This 2025 Tea Encounter WaLong goes for $115.00 for 200g cake or $0.58/g.  This one had a more classic WaLong presentation which, for me, is always a good thing…

Dry leaves have a very creamy very smooth very sweet odour.

Rinsed leaves have a creamy sweet odour with subtle roast and almost fruit odour.

first infusion is a watery pure creamy vegetal sweet taste. Chalky creamy watery. Soft sticky mouthfeel. Mild creamy sugar returning sweet taste long on the breath.

Second infusion has a sweet sort of sugar and pumpkin roasted creamy sweet taste with a mild bitterness developing.  There is a heavy expanding downward moving chest feeling here with a return sugar and bitterness.  Sticky with roof of mouth dry feeling.  Mild bubbling chest feeling.

Third infusion has a strong bitter roasted sweet onset with strong chesty beats now. Expanding chest and energy increase.  Sticky dry roof of mouthfeel.

Fourth infusion has a bitter sweet melon creamy sweet taste with a sticky chalky mouthfeel. Cooled down is really sugary sweet expanding taste.  Chest expanding feeling relaxing mild uplift.

Fifth has an oily almost fruit sweet bitter taste with a returning sugar and creamy sweet mild return. Sticky chalky mouthfeel. Chest bubbling feeling mild relaxing uplift. Mild Sweet chalky taste left in the mouth.

6th is left to cool and is a bitter sweet sugar chalky taste with an almost melon sweet onet and more of a sugar chalky creamy return. Relaxing uplift is mild and chest flutters and Qi is mild to moderate.

7th is left to cool and is a sweet sugary chalky onset with only faint bitterness now returning sugar sweet taste.  Lingering sweet breath melon and almost candy minutes later. Relaxing uplift with mild chest qi now.

8th is left to cool and is a watery faint chalky sweet bitter.  Chest opening and beating with relaxing uplifting. 

9th has a chalky sweet melon sugars onset with some sticky mouthfeel and dry roof of mouth. Relaxing uplift.

10th is a woody dry bark dry roof of mouth with cool breath melon chalky sweet taste with return and breath.  Good stamina here.

11th is an overnight mug infusion… and is a moderate bitterness oily with very mild sweet sugar vegetal taste under the bitter.  Stick dry roof of mouth with rising chest feeling and mild uplifting.

Vs 2024 Tea Encounter Walong

Dry leaves are a very pure sweet candy melon.

Rinsed leaves have a roasted sweet smell.

First infusion has a sweet sugar almost candy taste with roasty notes long candy expanding chalky taste. Chest beats with strong chest qi. Bigger chest expansion and very sweet taste.

Second infusion has a roasted vegital but very sweet sugar onset.  Sweet candy like sweet taste with chalky full sticky mouthfeel.  Long candy breath big chest beats with strong sensation in the chest. Energy boost with strong uplifting and Spacy high.

Third infusion has a sugar sweet chalky creamy almost candy onset with sticky mouthfeel.  Cooling breath. Chest qi big beats and expanding feeling.

Fourth infusion is a bitter wood bark with stage sweet kore on the breath in the aftertaste but the bitterness is long. Face flash and chest expand a bit. Fruity melon in the aftertaste.  

6th has a sugar sweet onset with a dry woody bark mid profile a sugar fruity wood back aftertaste. Sticky mouthfeel. 

7th has a sweet sugar melon woody onset creamy as well but not overly sweet now. Cereal bland tastes more than sweet tastes this late in the session. 

8th has a watery cereal sweet taste… mild uplifting relaxing feeling…

9th is an overnight mug steeping and is sweet with a candy edge to it but also pretty bitter. Chalky mouthfeel uplifting feeling.

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