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About 6-7g in 140ml Yixing pot, 95-100C water, starting with short 5s steeps and adding a few seconds with each re-steep.

After a couple of rinses and a couple of mild-tasting short steeps, this opened up and became mellow, sweet and rich with a pleasant ‘library’ kind of scent and taste like leather and old books – though idealised rather than musty. By about the fourth or fifth steep, the tea had a thick and glossy mouthfeel, and after a couple more steeps the taste and aroma of the liquor had changed to a mild high sweetness with a depth like dark, heavily-scented summer flowers and wood smoke – still with the glossy mouthfeel that I’m guessing is the ‘hui run’ from YS’s description.