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“At this point in time, early 2021, I’m surprised at how young-tasting this still is. The material was pressed from 2015 leaves, so that puts it at about 6 years old. I’ve read other people...” Read full tasting note
“云起星际,天佑台湾”(Cloud rises from horizon, may God bless TaiWan) is sub title of the tea name YunQi which means Cloud rising.
A tea made mainly from tea materials picked from big trees in BuLang tea mountain. Before pressed into tea cake in this year, the tea material has aged for 3 years in warehouse of DaYi.
Tasting notes:
Obvious fragrance from cold tea cup.
Almost no grass like smell always appears on new tea leaf maocha.
Rich tea liquor with thickness.
Bitterness transfers to sweetness smoothly without any hesitation.
Lingering tea flavor in mouth.
Lower astringency but salivation comes like waves one after another.
Very soothing mouth feeling deep into throat.
Tea Gender:
Sheng cha which will continuously ferment by complicate chemical reaction of Oxygen, Microbes, Enzyme and other substances contained in tea leaf. And this process is called natural fermentation or evolution which will get better effect under ideal storage condition of humidity around 75% and temperature near 20-25 Celsius with airflow and should be hidden from sun light.
Batch:
1801
Storage:
Dry storage in GuangZhou city.
Company description not available.
At this point in time, early 2021, I’m surprised at how young-tasting this still is. The material was pressed from 2015 leaves, so that puts it at about 6 years old. I’ve read other people mentioning notes of diesel/gasoline/kerosene in some young sheng. While I’ve not experienced those notes before, this sheng comes about as close as I can imagine. It’s astringent. It’s boring. The smokiness is toeing the line of cigarette smoke. Nice Bulang leaf and no char in the bottom of the cup, though. If I had more, this for sure would go to the depths of storage. As it is now, it’s a pass. It’s sold as both 150g 357g cakes. Strange. Another meh Menghai.
Also, holy fuuuuug, this is up to $550 for 357g. I read in somebody, somewhere‘s blog that there’s something going on with who can sell Menghai/Dayi. I’ll have to search for it. Maybe that’s why King Tea Mall is selling these cakes for ridiculous prices now.
Here we go: http://www.marshaln.com/2021/01/taobao-price-controls/
Flavors: Astringent, Bitter, Butter, Earth, Menthol, Plum, Smoke, Vegetal, Zucchini
Perhaps the pu you’ve left aging in your car will develop those diesel/gasoline notes. :-)
Haha, you remembered. My truck passed smog last month, so that’s unlikely :P
I cleaned out the cab last week and did find a package of tea that I never mailed to my friend in Ohio…
He proceeded to comment that I have not changed my ways. Something about finding a bloated half gallon of milk and rotten oranges in the back of my Taurus in like 2001.
Dayi is nuts lately. I have been purchasing other teas instead.
When one can buy 2 cakes of good 20 year old Taiwan stored Yiwu for this price all I have to ask is why?
@Natethesnake, I have stuff not even 1/8 th this price from 03. Changtai, Che Shun Hao, HK style 8582 and some more..