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“http://www.chawangshop.com/media/heicha/2011_Hunan_Heicha_Zhu_Xiang_Ji_200g4.jpg Seriously. Just look at that beauty. If you’re thinking it looks like someone broke apart a couple of wet cigars...” Read full tasting note
“Scent: lovely, gentle, aromatic bamboo softness. I think to myself, “Hey, maybe this will be a hei cha that doesn’t flirt with a level of total horror and dankness that’ll make me half afraid to...” Read full tasting note
This is one of the unique and highest quality dark tea. Handmade processing in small quantity and highest material selection is guarantee of nice experience! We are happy to find new flavor sensations. This tea is definitely one of them.
This special and miraculous heicha comes from Jiangnan town, Anhua county, but also is the beverage most commonly enjoyed by a 106 years old woman – LiaoJuLian.
LiaoJuLian (1903 – 2009) was the Qing dynasty calligrapher, industrialist HuangZiYuan’s grandnephew daughter-in-law (child bride). The Huangs have its unique way to make tea: fresh tea leaves from mountain, were wrapped in bamboo shoot shell after the process of cooking, fermentation and smoked. Then placed the tea in a ventilated place to allow natural fermentation to occur.
Original flavor of dark tea with unique and lasting scent of pure natural bamboo. HuangZiYuan like it very much and named it “Yu Lei Zhu Xiang Cha(雨擂竹湘茶)”. For more than 100 years, the craft is traditionally passed down from generation to generation in family Huang. LiaoJuLian inherited this craft and passed on to the newer generations.
Now, her grandchildren are making these tea.
Manufacturer : farm product from Zhulinxi, Jiangnan town, Anhua county
Production date : 06/2011
Weight : 200g
Company description not available.
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Seriously. Just look at that beauty.
If you’re thinking it looks like someone broke apart a couple of wet cigars & shoved them in a bamboo wrapper you are probably on the right tracks.. this one is pretty dank with smoky hints.. cigar tobacco & sweetly sour notes. – Not ‘smoked’ like DHP or Lapsang but just in the background. Also some medicinal & pile flavours but again they all sit behind a plummy Hunan Heicha sweetness. It isnt as strong as a couple of wet cigars, it just gives that impression subtly.
All this is pretty mixed together in the soup, so its either balanced or jumbled, depending on whether you like that or not :) This soup isnt thick & dark & earthy like a shou its more fruiter in the viscosity.
These notes give way to a mellow tea later on in the session, but with a bit of a body feel going on. Crept up on me :) Not massively strong but just noted. turns into library flavours later.
Its not that long lasting. Its not super rich or thick. Its also not expensive & is certainly interesting if you like those old smokey book flavours, while not tasting overly smoked, a slight sweet to balance things out while not being fruity. Maybe its more a bamboo sweetness.
Flavors: Autumn Leaf Pile, Bamboo, Fruity, Medicinal, Pleasantly Sour, Smoked, Tobacco
Scent: lovely, gentle, aromatic bamboo softness. I think to myself, “Hey, maybe this will be a hei cha that doesn’t flirt with a level of total horror and dankness that’ll make me half afraid to drink.”
Taste on the first steep: slightly dank, unbelievably dusty and dry.
Me: “It’s pretty old bookshop.”
Wife: “It’s less the old bookshop, and more the abandoned cardboard boxes that they used to move the books around in the bookshop.”
By the third steep, it’s developing kind of… halfway pleasant warm gentle sweet nutty notes under the undeniable taste of bookshop.
Wife: “This makes me think of first grade.”
Me: “Definitely… there’s like, paste and glue under the cardboard taste.”
Wife: “Yup.”
Me: “Do you like it?”
Wife: “Well, it makes me sad that I’m an adult now and there aren’t construction paper projects in my life anymore.”
Me: “I think I’m starting to like it. That makes me worry for the state of my soul.”
