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Allan’s review of this was pretty spot on. This tea is weak. It still beats all of the bagged black tea that I have tried though.

I’m having the 2016 spring version of the tea. I’ve had it a few times now. I prefer the light roast over the plain version. It’s definitely a bit different to me, but is pretty tasty.

It has roasty wine, pepper taste. That’s about all I can come up with.

I’m onto my second ounce of this, and it’s really one of my favorites. The dry leaf has a very strong juniper berry smell.

I’m pretty sure I haven’t done this gong fu yet, but I hopefully will before it’s out.

It’s has a nice almost caramel, dark fruit, and woodsy taste.

Drank this delicious tea earlier today. I also prefer this western a lot more. Brings out lots of the chocolate taste. This one also had some dark fruit stuff going on—mostly raisins.

Today was a good day. Recorded a new song. Had a successful appointment. And drank some good tea.

Wow, I like this significantly more western style. It was really tasting like sweet potatoes and bread when I gong fu (panda’ed) it. Now, the chocolate is there and still some sweet potato and bread flavor, but a better amount.

I’m drinking an 8 gram raw puerh dragon ball from YS that I got with my order. It’s pretty good—not bitter at all, very vegetal, and a little bit of fruit.

Because I thought it was white tea by the look, and the smell wasn’t strong, I did it western. Now I have lots of very concentrated tea. Looks like I’ll be adding extra water. My friend is coming over soon. He’s usually pretty reactive (calm and spacey) to the effects of tea. I’ll be sure to share some of this with him. :) I did tell him to eat before coming over. Ever since I read on someone’s tasting note that their son passed out after some raw, I’m sure to be careful.

This is tasty, but lacking in strength. It’s got some bready notes and some sweet (maybe) caramel notes. I’m probably being too picky, but I’m dreaming for the day when all the teas I buy are 90+. I need to be more patient and wait for other reviews first. Slowly starting to understand this world of tea I am. :)

EDIT: I steeped it a bit longer, and it’s better. Upping the rating to an 80.