2017 Yang Qing Hao Sen Lin Cha Wang

This 2017 Yang Qing Hao Sen Lin Cha Wang goes for $950.00 for 500g cake or $1.90/g.  It’s listed as one of their limited productions…

Dry leaves smell of sweet fresh peachy orange.

Rinsed leaves are a very dense sweet fresh fruity sugary candy sweet odours.

First infusion has an ashy woody orange blossoms taste- surprising that it tastes like Lincang to me!  Oily orange sweet nectar taste.  Lingering sweet orange blossom woody. Swelling chest feeling with some face qi.

Second infusion has a soapy orange blossom and orange fruity taste with faint mild astringency and sticky mouthfeel deeper thirst opening feeling and swelling chest.  Big energy boost comes from the chest and mind charged up! Face Qi.  Could be Bing Dao?

Third infusion is left to cool and has a juicy orange sweet orange blossom sweet taste with swelling chest and heart palpitations.  Mouthwatering effect very faint astringency with long orange sweet taste.  Energy uplift!

Fourth infusion is a very sweet almost woody but more orange sweetness.  Very very mild astringency with enough to induce mouthwatering but hardly noticeable.  Qi big chest beats.  Qi power up!  

5th is a sweet orange blossom woody is becoming more prominent faint astringency and mouthwating with face tingling qi big energy boost in chest and mind!

6th is a juicy orange sweet taste.  Big chest feeling moderate face qi and relaxed shoulders and limbs.  Energy charge up.  Puerh I’ve tried like this in the past are usually more astringent this one is not! This is an outlier in the Yang Qing Hao productions being very Lincang!

7th has a fruity sweet orange tastes with a faint woody back ground.  Soft mouthfeel cooling mild breath with a floral orange blossom and sweet orange taste. Big qi chest building with uplifting.

8th cooled down… is a light apricot/orange sweet taste with light slight sticky mouthfeel.  Mild chest feeling with mild energy increase.

9th is a sweet almost orange peach fruity taste.  Fresh taste. Slight ashy chalky feel.  Uplift.

10th is put into an overnight thermos and it is sweet creamy orange-peachy pop and chalky onset with a long sweet candy finish.  No bitterness nor astringency… candy sweetness!

Peace

2016 Yang Qing Hao Jen Kung Miao Yu

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2016 Yang Qing Hao Wujin Cang

 Got this sample from Liquid Proust in 2021ish… this 2016 Yang Qing Hao Wujin Cang goes for $220.00 for 400g cake or $0.55/g… on the cheaper end of Yang Qing Hao puerh…

Dry leaves have a sweet dry woody cardboard with subtle spice….

Rinsed leaves are very sweet candy… I don’t have much leaf here maybe 6-8 g vs 10-12g which I have been using…

First infusion has a maple syrup watery sweet taste.  Cooled down it is a very sweet pure clear sugar.

Second infusion is a sweet light airy sugar and fruits with a syrupy sweet taste throughout long light candy on the breath. Like canned peach syrup.

Third infusion has a sweet light watery airy pure sweet sugar slight peach taste.  There is a creamy almost chocolate pudding faint breath finish. Chest beats and face light and head floating feeling. Candy faint breath.

Fourth infusion is ashy fruity sweet with sandy silty mouthfeel and spacy out mind and face qi with Heart palpitations.  Light sweet faint chocolate breath. 

5th infusion is a ashy woody slight sweet sorta bitter taste with long very faint sweet chocolate breath. Chest beats and face Qi. Cooled down is a light peachy ashy very faint bitter. Chest beats.

6th is a watery sweet water.  Light coco ashy faint bitter. Silty mouthfeeling.   

7th same…so I put it into an overnight thermos….

Next day it is sweet coco smooth bittersweet taste flat tongue mouthfeel.  Mainly coco but more sweet and smooth not so bitter.

Longer days long steeping is a bit dark coco bittersweet…

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2013 Yang Qing Hao Tai He

This 2013 Yang Qing Hao Tai He goes for $800.00 for 500g or $1.60/g.

 Dry leaves have a honey like odour and dry cardboard.

First infusion is a bright tingling watery bitter with long creamy candy finish.  Chalky fluffy mouthfeel with tangerine peach nuances.  Long long candy finish. Chest bubbling.

Second is left to cool and comes out a creamy caramel with bitter onset and long creamy sweet caramel evolution into long candy… very very delicious.  Subtle faint smoke very long candy finish. Chest bubbling with peaceful feeling of harmony.

Third infusion is a bitter peachy fruity with caramel subtle smoke and long candy finish!  Cooled down it is a peachy caramel candy evolution of tastes with a very mild smoke and moderate bitterness.  Long candy sweet finish is really nice.  Big qi swells up like energy building in the chest. 

Fourth has a bitter peachy caramel with very long candy sweet finish almost like those fuzzy peachy candies.  Big qi swelling and face flushing with up lifting deep energy charge with high feeling.

Fifth infusion peachy sweet caramel mild bitter smoke. Very delicious long evolving sweet taste of peach, candy and caramel.  Mild bitter and faint smoke.  Chalky fluffy mild mouthfeel and strong space out Qi with build up deep charge.  Face warming qi.  

6th is moderate bitter caramel candy. Very sweet almost a strawberries creamy peaches underneath.  Big chest bubbling even in diaphragm.  

7th infusion is sweet peachy ashy coco slight pucker tight mouth and weeks roof.  Big qi building with face warming and sweating.  Relaxing uselessness feeling.

8th peachy ashy long sweet taste less bitterness. Less complex sweet taste now and more slight gripping sandy mouthfeel.  Faint coco flavours in moderate bitter taste.  Unless relaxing happening with low productivity at work now!

9th is a sweet bitter woody taste coco flavor is faint more sweet peachy bitter woody balance. Big qi building with lazy relaxing.  

10th is a bitter woody some faint coco dry woody sweet underneath but bitterness overtakes it now… chest flutters and face sweats…. Deep useless relaxing.

Still lots of power left in these but too bitter so I put them into an overnight thermos… the next morning it gives off vibrant bright sweetness with bitter woody coco chocolate finish.  Flat tongue mouthfeel.  Strong warming face sweats.

Put into another days long thermos steep it is still oily resin woody rich deep chocolate and bitter sweet coco layers with background smoke…. Deep and delicious.  Big Qi relaxing and mind deep contemplation.

I push it again into a days long thermos… it is a creamy dense caramel but mainly coco bittersweet.  Viscus thick chalky mouthfeel but not at all hard or gripping.  Bitterness but no astringency.

Overall the strong rich dense bittersweet taste is really good and the lazy relaxing low productivity Qi is really nice.  I like this one a lot.

Peace

2012 Yang Qing Hao Yeh Gu… Oops

 Ok I actually forgot to taste the 2012 Yang Qing Hao Yeh Gu ($480.00 gor 500g cake or $0.96/g in my sequential sampling this past winter/ Spring.  

I purchased a cake of this in January 2021 it was $450 at that time.  My notes are here.   I understood it to be a very high quality… probably the best Wild Tea / Yesheng I had tired.  The new site descriptions confirms that it is just that.  It also sort of confirms the exotic musings of Shah8 that it was likely picked deep in a state forest… maybe even poached he goes as far at painting the lore of this tea…. It doesn’t say that but I just love how Shah8 paints that picture in my mind!

I just wanted to add a few notes to compare it to the rest of the 2012 line up of Yang Qing Hao…. It actually fits in really nicely and I can see that Yang was all about creating very powerful complex forest blends that tilt toward power and extraordinary strong Qi experiences in 2012!

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2012 Yang Qing Hao Tian Shan Yi Jen

 

This 2012 Yang Qing Hao Tian Shan Yi Gen goes for $830.00 for 500g cake or $1.66/g.

Very tight pressed Dry leaves smell of dry marsh subtle sweetness and florals.

Rinsed leaves are very creamy sweet and purfume florals.

First infusion has a creamy sweet pudding custard taste. Oily creamy mouthfeel.  Long creamy sweet finish. 

Second creamy brassy almost sour sweet taste with custard like textures and sweet tastes.  Creamy tongue tingling.  Chest heavy feeling and releasing mind feeling.

Third infusion is left to cool and is a sweet cooling liquid custard and creamy tasting. Brassy sweetness.. heavy chest feeling light airy mind.

Fourth has a creamy honey oily viscus sweet taste with a nutty creamy sweet finish.  Sone candy returns and disappears faint bitterness is building lingering coco with that bitterness.  Spacy air mind and heavy shoulders, limbs, face and chest.  The contrast between the heavy bodyfeeling and the light airy feeling in the mind is unique and interesting to me.

Fifth infusion is sweet and evolving taste creamy custard honey linger coco bitterness at the end key feeling. Long creamy custard honey sweet taste with mild bitter coco finish. Almost floating out of body and airy and light feeling Qi.  Freeing and happy.

6th infusion has a creamy custard spicy bready long chocolate coco creamy sweetness.  Very smooth a long with some mild bitterness building at the end into coco. Airy out of body feel.

7th is a sweet wet texture with a honey custard coco mild bitterness. Evolves into the bitter coco it’s not up front. Delicious taste progression.  Big chest beats and freeing mind feeling.

8th has coco creamy almost purfume custard taste with mild oily bitter coco more at the profiles end.  Oily texture with mild silty finish .  Mouthwatering bitt sweet coco. Big chest feeling. Happy airy mind is happy and strongly mentally rejuvenating!

9th is put into a long thermos steeping and it is coco bitter sweet with some chest y qi and very happy high feeling.

10th is an overnight thermos and it is an oily viscus bitter sweet coco with thick textured oily feeling and big chest Qi with strong high happy feeling.

11th the leaves have quite a bit of stamina so I push it into another overnight thermos and it comes out delicious oily viscus coco milk chocolate with bittersweet coco bitterness as well.  Mouthwatering delicious!   Mouthfeel is mildly tight chalky but mainly oily tick textured.  Big qi washes over me still… 

12th Days long steeping is very very sweet vibrant melon tropical deep fruity vibrancy,  delicious pops of candy like strawburst candies.  Faint mouthwatering creamy chili ate layers.

I push this one into a few days long thermos and it still has enjoyable amounts of creamy chocolate and cherry. Lots of dark cocoa taste in this puerh even after many long pushes… the leaves have great stamina….. thicker oily chalky full textures even very faint smoke…I like this one quite a bit.

These two 2012 from Yang Qing Hao have the feeling of high quality Yibang to me… possibly very nice powerful Yiwu as well! The 666 and Yeh Gu are similarly extra powerful!

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Pow! 2012 Yang Qing Hao Tei Gung 666

This 2012 Yang Qing Hao Tei Gung 666 goes for $830.00 for 500g cake or $1.66/g.

Very compressed Dry leaves smell of marsh like hay not sweet.

Rinsed leaf is very sweet pure candy and sort of forest rubbery leaves!

First infusion has a watery sort of creamy minty. Long creamy candy on the breath.  Fluffy full mouthfeel. Chesty flutters and happy spacy mind.

Second infusion has a nice candy taste watery with a full chalky fluffy mouthfeeling.  Long candy finish.  Slight menthol cool breath.  Long candy profile. Sandy chalky fluffy slightly stimulating mouthfeel.  Chest flutters and deep energy uplift with numb face qi!

Third infusion has a woody/hay candy taste. Stronger mouthfeel is slowly building with chest fluttering which is pretty strong sensation but strangely calming.  Left to cool it is sweet honey and candy silty sandy full mouthfeel. Strong chest feeling.

Fourth is left to cool and is a bit sour bitter sweet sort of fruity and woody. Almost mango tasting but not overly sweet.

5th infusion has a sweet sour woody taste sort of mango.  Cooled down is sweet sour mango woody.  No long candy anymore… chest flutters and relaxing mind. Is left to cool… 

6th infusion has a coco woody taste. Sweet chocolate taste creamy chocolate pudding taste now.  Relaxing Qi with face tingling and chest flutters.

7th is woody coco bitterness with a sandy full mouthfeel some chest fluttering and heavy relaxing feeling.  

8th is a woody bitter coco with strong almost throat gripping bitterness.  Bitter woody coco some medical cooling breath. Dry mouth and roof of mouth. 

9th is a bitter woody not much coco a bit cooling medicinal but throat tugging and stomach beating bitterness now…..

These leaves still have lots to offer but too bitter and hard on the empty stomach to continue….

Long mug steeping is bitter woody menthol with chest and face qi and heavy relaxing along with deep uplift and spaced out feelings.

Days long steeping of spent leaf is oily very sweet plum bready oily some chocolate creamy tastes almost nutty with chocolate covered cherries box of chocolate taste is very delicious oily chalky feeling chest heavy feeling. Spacy mind ride.

One more days long steeping continues to push out the good stuff… it is viscus oily slight smoke but a long juicy melon… bitter dark chocolate cherries finish…. Yummy!

This one is a complex powerhouse in taste and Qi…. Pow!

Peace