90

All this talk of LBZ made me want to try one of my samples ive been saving for a rainy day, so I broke this one out. Also because ive got two sleepeze tablets (diphenhydramine hydrochloride) and one should knock me out at a decent time I thought, what the hell, lets go.

Quick rinse, first couple of steeps & I can smell the leaf from across the room. Prunes, smoke, camphor & just the right amount of dankness. A bit murky

Taste is soft but powerful, deep & sweet aromas from the liquor. I love these rounded shengs. Nice toungue numbing already, sweet taste, its vegetal but I cant work out what. Like deep pastel shades of dark brown green mixed with sparkly sweet overtones. It was balanced nicely, I liked the thickness as well. Everything just ‘right’.

And the bitterness is just slowly creeping in. I was expecting a more bitter tea but it took a while for the raw to show itself, and even then it wasn’t as strong as I thought it would be. At about steep 10 I was just leaving the gaiwan to do its thing. It never went off the scale, I found it to be quite forgiving in that respect.

All in all a nice session. I liked the first 5 steeps the best, the sweet prune & dank camphor was nice. Hefty price tag though!

Also this was the last of my sample, not quite sure how much but could have done with a bit more leaf to fully appreciate the flavour.

Flavors: Camphor, Stonefruit, Sweet, Vegetal

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 0 min, 15 sec
Rui A.

Another LBZ I need to try.

Rasseru

I really enjoyed it. Not sure it had the staying power of other shengs, or I was a bit surprised with it not turning into something bitter. The flavour did seem to disappear around steep 10. I guess I was using about 5g for 100ml so it might have been that. Was lovely during the session though

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Rui A.

Another LBZ I need to try.

Rasseru

I really enjoyed it. Not sure it had the staying power of other shengs, or I was a bit surprised with it not turning into something bitter. The flavour did seem to disappear around steep 10. I guess I was using about 5g for 100ml so it might have been that. Was lovely during the session though

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90+ is godly

80-90 is something i would buy again.

60-80 ok, but probably more bland or basic in their flavour.

0-60 something tastes wrong with this one.

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