Dry – Earthy and woody, very straight forward, very faint medicinal.
Wet – Earth, strong earth-wood and medicinal bitterness, thick, some musky scent, mellow smoke. (Evolves into a more creamy, earthy, licorice and sweet scent).
First two steeps are earthy with strong bitter earthy-woody notes with a medicinal base and very apparent creamy thickness and a sweet Huigan.
In the following steeps the medicinal root notes take the front with tobacco-wood notes and faint smoke. As it goes down it is mellow, thick/creamy and sweet with camphor. Oddly enough, even though it is refreshing it has a lingering thickness almost oily/buttery.
Later steeps (pushing the same day and continued the next day) are still thick with earthy tobacco/medicinal notes and very smooth, thick body. The buttery/oily body linger with sweet and refreshing Huigan.
Final Notes
This was very pleasant, I’ve never had a ripe with such apparent oily body. I’ve had creamy/thick ones which in contras seem more residual on the tongue but this was sort of slippery on the tongue :P
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Flavors: Creamy, Earth, Licorice, Medicinal, Sweet, Thick, Wood
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I love your blog. I do the tasting in porcelain gaiwan too. In fact I think I use it more than any thing else. Sorry for your loss of a good friend :(
Thanks for reading! I miss that Gaiwan, it was good holding heat and the porcelain lining made it great. BTW, you should try this tea if you get the opportunity, I just ordered from 1992 Xiaguan Shu Brick from W2T to compare.
I love your blog. I do the tasting in porcelain gaiwan too. In fact I think I use it more than any thing else. Sorry for your loss of a good friend :(
Thanks for reading! I miss that Gaiwan, it was good holding heat and the porcelain lining made it great. BTW, you should try this tea if you get the opportunity, I just ordered from 1992 Xiaguan Shu Brick from W2T to compare.