What an interesting tea! The smell reminds me of a very clean barn with some sweet, hay and peat notes. Later I can smell some sea air and spicy notes of cloves and black pepper. It is not a pungent aroma, but it has some nice subtleties. When smelling the empty cup, the sheng qualities tend to pop up more, with beeswax being the main association.
The liquor is super smooth and coating with no astringency. The taste I found to have a very nice bitter base, sweetness in the aftertaste and a lot of other tones like blackberry, honey, coffee etc, which were quite hard to pinpoint sometimes as the tea changed its more nuanced qualities a lot throughout the session.
Flavors: Barnyard, Berries, Bitter, Black Pepper, Cloves, Coffee, Honey, Hot Hay, Peat Moss, Salt, Sweet, Vegetable Broth
