2006 Yang Qing Hao Qi Xiang:Again!

This is a go to drinker yea in my house. I like the unpredictable blend of this one which I have wrote about a few times previously on this blog…

From purchase a few years ago from Yang’s storage…Dry leaves have a sweet woody almost floral sweet odour with faint deeper leaf peat odours.

Rinsed leaves have a very sweet creamy floral almost salty pungent odour…, yummy

First infusion has a creamy complex salty woody metalic floral complex blended taste … lots of things… mainly lots of layered sweet taste creamy and candy and floral… silty full sticky lips and deep throat mild opening feeling complex again! Floating and mind expanding bodyfeeling.  Strong chest beats feel enlivening.  Strong energy feeling!

Second infusion is a creamy salty woody dirt creamy sweet deep dark and light all in one with a silty slight puckering dry lips and slight cooling opening throat.  Creamy floral almost reminds me that there must be more ManZhuang in this blend some infusions.  Wet mouth and slight dry balance in mouth with an overall complex taste feel and Qi big chest beats energy with uplifting body and shoulders face tingling.

Third infusion has a very sweet melon creamy sweet onset with a bready salty finish.  Salivating and wetness with sticky driness.  Strong chest beats energy. Floating levitating energizing. Clear focus mind and vision happy feeling- complex lots of things going on at once. Cooled down infusion is very cherry creamy pastry sweet with cake creamy candy sweet taste over salty woody layers with cool mild pungent sweet lingering.

Fourth infusion has a sweet honey creamy salty woody layers.  Big beats in the chest and energetic uplift.  Cooled down it tastes real sweet with a fruity melon creamy sweet pastry bready taste.  Woody salty depth.  Uplifting and relaxing with deep sighs. 

5th is salty woody sweet bread pastry mouthwater saliva producing sticky lips.  Complex taste tilts toward sweetness. Qi is mainly energizing but also relaxing.  Mouthfeel is full salivating slight sticky lips.

6th is left to cool is a sweet creamy woody savory with a cake pastry sweet finish that increasingly reminds me of Manzhuan.  Long candy creamy cake aftertaste. Chalky mouthfeel with sticky lips.  Creamy sweet chalky almost dark coco and cake savory. Upbeat and energetic but also slightly relaxing.

7th has a sour sweet fruity mellon taste savory base with woody but mainly layered sweet tastes nice sweetness and pastry bready sweet taste. Nice aftertaste of sweet candy breads salty creamy fruits.  Uplifting and relaxing with face relax and shoulders with mild chest beats and feeling.  Cooled down it is a creamy sweet initial taste that is supported by a savory salty base in a chalky full mouthfeel some mild deep throat opening and lingering candy creamy sweet tastes.

8th left to cool is sweet honey creamy candy bready pastry…. Lots of layering of sweetness.  Longer sweet mold finish. Spacy relaxing feeling here.

9th oops left the water on the leaves for a few minutes there… strong cherry plum fruity sweet with bitterness and some astringency.. sour cherries taste.., full mouthfeel with savoury body…pops of sweet taste saliva producing a bit dry and sticky in the mouth cooling deep throat pastry sweet finish.

10th I put into a long mug steeping… it is woody salty savoury with a deeper sweetness. Some bitter coco and mild astringency.  Silty full mouthfeeling.  Deep dark tasting clouds sweetness.

What’s not to love about this one?

Again please!

Peace

L

2020 Meng Xiang Geng Kan

 

Oh boy…. It’s been crazy busy in my life this winter…. I always say “ a good busy”…. As far as evaluating teas… Mainly I worked on sampling the complete Yang Qing Hao catalogue but didn’t finish it but have lots of posts to come on that! It seems things have slowed down for a bit here so if that pace continues… expect these posts to drop to come fast…

 Tiago of Tea Encounter was excited to send me the latest-  an early spring tasting of something still showing some fresher signs but starting into semi-aged.  I sampled it in the middle of a cold snap at the end of winter but it just seemed like the wrong tea to drink at that time…. So I sampled it again in the warmer Springtime and was pretty satisfying… 

Dry leaves have a sweet layering of honey and fresh fruits with a deep sweet pungency.

Rinsed leaves have a pungent piercing sweetness with a tropical orange sweetness sometimes a fruity banana and fresh fruits odour.  Smells familiar like Lincang even Bing Dao I have tried before even a familiar dry storage odour… 

First infusion has a nutty a bit salty tropical fruity bananas in a wet slippery feeling mouth with a background of spice.  Eyes and forehead expanding unique bodyfeeling. Chest expanding.  Tropical fruits left in the aftertaste.  

Tonnes of mouthwatering and juicy viscus saliva producing.  Spacy feel good.  Metallic salivating even a salty taste.  

Second infusion has a smooth fruity taste over a slippery mouthfeel.  Big chest swelling and tropical fruity but mainly an orange aftertaste with background spice and pungency.  Dense taste with a bitterness lingering in the background.  Lots of in-mouth taste and feeling less in-throat.  

Third infusion is left to cool and comes off tropical fruity sweet with a dense almost quick bitterness. Spacy mind.  Slippery a nice chest beats with an uplifting mood feeling.

Fourth infusion has a melon smooth tropical fruity dense taste hard to reach not real bitterness. Full oily viscus mouthfeel. Space out Qi.  Uplifting mood.

Fifth infusion has a bitter sour fruit onset. There is an oily feeling in the mouth with a low evolving bitter sour orange taste. Spacy qi feeling with open chest. Uplifting but lore spaced out focus. Shoulders a bit heavy and mind slowing a bit now.  

Sixth infusion has a sour fruity taste.  Wet almost bitterness in the mouth that fades away hard to grasp. Spacy mind chest mild feeling with heavy shoulder.

Seventh infusion has a bitter sour fruitiness.  Spacy mind. Some chesty beats.

Eighth sour sweet tropical fruity onset in an oily broth.  Mouthfeel but not much in the throat. Spaced out mind with done nice heart beats. Fruity sour almost bitter finish.

9th is left to cool and is still sour sweet fruity.  Chalky wet mouthfeel.  Spaced out feeling.

10th has a sweet tropical fruity oily slippery full oily taste spaced out relaxing too.

11th is is an overnight mug steeping of spent leaves… it has an orange sweet citrus blossoms juicy sweet taste.  Viscus juicy orange.  Spacy feeling. Has the taste and feel of something Western Xishuangbanna … or maybe Lincang… yummy and Spacy.

I sampled this one blind but it turns out it is a Lincang, Da Xue Shan! This 2020 Meng Shan Geng Kan goes for $86.20 for 357g cake or $0.24/g

Peace

2005 Yang Qing Hao “Old Tree” Limited

 I only had a small sample of this 7 tong production when I tried this back in 2021.  But for the sake of anyone interested here is the link to the notes….

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2005 Yang Qing Hao Yiwu Cha Wang (Houde Stored)

 

This 2005 Yang Qing Hao Cha Wang sample is not from Yang’s storage it’s been dry stored by Houde in Huston for a few decades-ish.  I sampled it a few years ago here on the blog here but thought to retaste as I go through the Yang Qing Hao experience here…

Dry leaves have a sweet faint woody almost purfume spice.

Rinsed leaves have a purfume strawberries and almost resin odour.

First infusion has a woody sweet resin taste. With a faint spice finish.  Long sweet raisin and resin… ha. Dried grit raisin with calm and chest beats slowness. Peaceful mind release.

Second infusion has a perfume spice strawberries mild sweet taste. Sort of strawberry jam with cooling throat. Sweet slight raisins and slight resin. Slight tight feeling in the mouth and throat calming peaceful bliss moderate Qi feeling.  

Third infusion has a strawberries mild woody resin taste creamy spice the flavour is a bit lighter and less dense than many other Yang Qing Hao.  Bubbling light chest and slower heart beats with blissed out peaceful feeling. Cooled down has a bit more mild sweetness melon, cherry, strawberry with spice and perfume resin.  Bubbling light chest and slower heart beats beats.  Faint candy return.

Fourth is left to cool with a chalky gritty creamy talc.  Strawberry mild creamy almost candy finish.  Happy bliss vibes.  Mild chest feeling.  Smooth enjoyable Yiwu that is maybe a bit lacking in bodyfeeling but others wise a nice solid Yiwu experience.

Fifth has a chalky sweet talc sandy woody taste.  Mild purfume.  Chill peaceful relaxing vibes.  Woody spice purfume base mild taste with a soft barley drying sandy mouthfeel.

Sixth infusion has a watery mild sweet strawberry talc.  Soft sandy mouthfeel with some slow chest beats.  Slight dry feeling in the mouth.  Chill vibes. Watery sweet finish.

Seventh has a woody spice talc mild flavour with a watery mild sweetness in the finish. Sandy dry mouthfeel.

8th is a long mug steeping and is oily light very high notes light fluffy almost candy sweetness.  Light crisp high notes pop still.  Candy long fade outs.  

Overall a nice solid Yiwu very easy to drink and no fuss feel good puerh but doesn’t dazzle and dazzle like most Yang Qing Hao with more a moderate and less complex Qi sensations as we have been used to being rather spoiled by other Yang Qing Hao productions.  However, their is a steady feeling of blissful happiness that carries me throughout this day on the Qi…. 

Peace

2005 Yang Qing Hao Ting Chi Pin

This 2005 Yang Qing Hao Ting Qi Pin goes for $520.00 for 500 g cake or $1.04/g.  It’s also referred to as 2005 Yang Qing Hao Dingjipin…

Dry leaves have a creamy sweet odour pure odour with a faint wood.

Rinsed leaves have a creamy sweet layered high notes almost cherry strawberries.

First infusion has a watery soft creamy taste that turns into sweetness.  Soft gentle energy with a chest swelling feeling.  Wet mouthfeeling. Somehow reminds me of Wangong.chest opening calm perspective.

Second infusion has a soft chalky watery almost strawberries taste.  There is a bit more sweetness in the return of light sweet strawberries.  Very gentle in taste with a prominent watery/wet mouthfeeling. Some swelling chest feeling. Calm. Perspective feeling a touch out of body feeling.  Soft calming with chest swelling.  Cooled down it has a watery almost faint mushroom and more soft taste creamy with a mild sweetness that develops in the return. Sticky mouthfeel.

Third infusion has a watery creamy wet taste almost a light melon taste that is hard to grasp with slight background mushroom the sweet taste comes out in the return. Very subtle and gentle. Some chest swelling.  Maybe the lightest and most subtle of all Yang Qing Hao.

4th has a watery almost melon sweet taste there is some faint mushroom background that might be more Yang storage notes than coming from the material I’m not sure.  It’s so clear in taste that it’s noticeable.  Cooled down it has a creamy chalky sandy melon taste with a fine sandy mouthfeel subtle cool mouth.  Swelling chest feeling.  A gentle relaxing feeling not that more perspective altering if the first few infusions. 

5th infusion has a mild sandy creamy sort of taste with subtle mushroom spice and melon sweet returning.  Wet mouthfeeling with a sticky sandiness slight dry roof of mouth.  Swelling chest feeling and calming feeling.

6th has a watery creamy sort of mushroom onset.  Swelling chest wet mouth with a dry roof of mouth.  Swelling chest expanding feeling.melon is very faint in the return.  Sticky almost drying feeling.  Peaceful calm.

7th has a watery mild flavour of creamy melon swelling chest feeling calm kind feeling.  Cooled down is a clear watery subtle melon sweet taste.  Swelling chest feeling.

8th infusion is left to cool and is a creamy sweet melon mild tasting with some breath coolness and calm feeling stick roof of mouth is always very mild but noted.  Chest swelling.

9th has a watery onset with background tastes a returning sweet mild melon is there as well. Chest swelling.  This puerh is very consistent infusion to infusion with more of a purity of a single area rather than a wider blend like most other Yang Qing Hao it’s also very subtle and gentle for an earlier Yang Qing Hao.

10th is becoming very watery still some Qi in there but is starting to fade….

11th is us a long steeping of spent leaves and is a creamy cherry sweet taste.  Smooth oily mouthfeeling with nice oily sweet fruity tastes.  Oily very sweet fruity stays in mouth lingering sweet taste.  Happy floating feeling.

I put it into a days long mug steeping and it is fruity oily smooth with a fruity cherries and strawberries taste.  Nice clean sweet and very easy to drink.  I like this for what it is… easy pure gentle Yang Qing Hao.

Peace

2005 Yang Qing Hao Yuan Shih Sen Ling Huang Shan Cha (aka Long Name)

In the West this 2005 Yang Qing Hao Yuan Shih Sen Ling Huang Shan Cha ($610.00 for 500g cake or $1.22/g) is also affectionately referred to as 2005 Yang Qing Hao “Long Name” I’m going to say that Shah8 started this as far as I know.

Dry leaves have a deeper herby sweet odour.

Rinsed leaves have a sweet cinnamon herby woody odour.

First infusion is a sweet watery almost candy with a more present woody.  Slight tongue tingling feeling with an empty mouth feel.  Deep throat opening and stimulating with lingering candy watery sweetness longing deep in the pure tasting cool throat opening.  Deep mind pausing peacefulness takes hold with levitating body and subtle tinging skin.

Second is a creamy cooling chalky candy.  Soft in the mouth with very deep sweet throat opening. Body pausing with floating and tingling distinct body feeling.  Cooled down it is creamy sweet candy cooling deep throat.

Third infusion has a woody menthol turns into a cooling very herby almost medicinal tasting with a woodsy talc taste.  Big qi pauses the mind tingles the skin and levitates the body. If feel happy and did ate with a happy talkative bubbling underneath.

Fouth infusion has a woodsy herby talc onset with a sweet background underbelly.  Slight sandy mouthfeeling with sticky lips and edges.  Big heart beats and mind floating. Big qi and complex with mind pausing body tingling.  Shoulders floating up. Blissed mind.  Medicinal camphor woody.

5th is a sweet woody herby camphor medicinal talc.  Herbs and medicinal plants make this one unique.  There is a deep throat opening but also a silty mouthfeel sticky lips and roof of mouth and fine sandy feeling.  Big qi chest feeling like diaphragm is rising up through the Heart feeling. Very unique body feel with skin tingling big deep energy boost revival.

6th bitter medicinal woods onset with herby woody taste slight sticky mouth with deep throat cooling .  Big qi makes me almost overwhelmed and a bit jumpy with a deep diaphragm moving up feeling limbs tingling.  

7th has a talc medicinal woody taste big Qi hits hard complex and deeply.  Cooled down more watery candy sweet taste.  Lingering candy in deep throat with soft silty mouth feeling.  Big diaphragm upwards movement with big rising up energy movements. Levitating, tingling, almost jittering.  

8th is left to cool and is a woody talc herby medicinal. Big upward movement of qi silty louthfeeling with underlying sweet candy big chest and shoulders upwards! Candy talc finish in deep throat and in the chalky mouthfeeling.

9th has a talc bitter woods with a herby with slight mouth lips sticky but not drying.  Deep throat opening.  Cooling medical camphor.  

The long mug steeping of spent leaves has a deep incense spice mushroom woody salty savory depth.  Lots of ingesting death in here.  Silty mouthfeel.  Smoky incense deep dark taste.  Chest uprising diaphragm and elevated feelings.  Mood up!

I put it into another days long mug infusion and it is sweet savory slightly minty deeper woods and dirts. 

Due to the stronger medical and herbal woody taste this is a puerh lovers puer not for the sweet at heart… it also makes it a bit of a unique production of Yang Qing Hao in its taste profile.  Yes it has sweetness but more of in just the first few infusions before it goes background.  Why am I evening talking about the taste… its mouthfeel is pretty complex with lots of deep throat and silty chalky sandy sticky feelings to balance out the deep throat but if you are going for this puerh it really is about the complex bodyfeeling… doesn’t get much better than this…

I should pick a cake of this up sometime soon although I missed the window for getting this one at any sort of deal.

Peace

2004 Yang Qing Hao Jinhao Chawang

 This one also sold out a few years ago and was a bit cheaper than the others and is an outlier production of Yang Qing Haos 2004 line…

Dry leaves have a sweet cardboard odour to them.

Rinsed leaves have a sort of floral and roasted nut odour.

First infusion has a watery sort of nutty sweet taste with slightly sandy mouthfeel and hard to grasp almost nutty floral sweetness.

Second has a light watery woody slight sour floral taste with a creamy sweet finish.  Very light and spacious flavours.  Cooled down it finishes more melon fruity and dry wood.  Wet mouthfeel with fine sand on tongue.  Warm energy in the face.

Third infusion has a watery sour fruity taste.  That fruity taste is quite clear and oily pear.  Oily mouthfeel.  Spaced out flavour nuances.  Creamy pear and peach notes.  Creamy sweet finish. Mild peaceful feeling.

Fourth infusion has a peach and pear clear oily taste.  Long creamy sweet aftertaste some sugars and peach and pear with some cooling and mouthwatering.  Simple pure clear and delicious flavours.  Some arm tingling.

5th is left to cool and has a peachy pear oily pure taste.  Oily mouthfeeling compliments the pure fruit flavours nicely.  Some soft faint sand on the tongue.  Long sweet bready creamy fruity almost fruitbread aftertaste. Slight warming spacy energy.  Some sensations in forearms.

6th is left to cool and has a fruity pear and peach oily taste.  Pure clear enjoyable flavours.  A bit relaxing Qi.  Slight bready sweet aftertaste. Oily mouthfeel.

7th has a woody almost pungent oily sweet fruit pear and peach.  Spacy relaxing.  Slight fine sand on tongue some faint bodyfeel in arms.

8th has a woody almost pungent sweet taste slight oily and fine sand tongue.Relaxing.

9th is left to cool and is woidy with some peachy pear oily sweet taste.

I put the rest into a long mug steeping… it comes out sweet and a bit floral not really any heavier Yang Qing Hao storage tastes.   There is some pungency and some root beers. Swelling chest feeling.

Overall, this less expensive 2004 has done quite well with age there is a reason it’s sold out for the lower price it sold for.  I enjoy it for what it is and it seemed to improved with a bit of age.

Peace