14 Tasting Notes

68

A nice dried fruit taste to this and a pleasantly light smoky aroma. Needs to be flash steeped or the bitterness is too strong. Quite good for the price.

Preparation
Boiling 0 min, 15 sec 8 g 4 OZ / 120 ML

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77
drank 2009 Jingmai by white2tea
14 tasting notes

Interesting floral/fruit notes and a pleasingly creamy mouthfeel. This is a nice tea definitely past the young sheng stage but with enough strength to go a while more in storage. Not particularly my style but certainly worth a sample or cake for something different every now and then.

Preparation
Boiling 0 min, 15 sec 7 g 3 OZ / 100 ML

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77
drank 2009 Jingmai by white2tea
14 tasting notes

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58

Bitter and astringent with nothing very interesting to compensate. Leaves appear entirely unaged and green despite the 13 years on this now. Not really objectionable but there are plenty of better dry aged teas out there for the price Interesting scent of Kaffir lime when grandpa brewing the leftover leaves.

Preparation
Boiling 0 min, 15 sec 7 g 3 OZ / 100 ML

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72
drank 2009 Yiwu Raw Puer by white2tea
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The first infusion has an almost buttery taste to it (reminds me of green oolong), lingering a little in the next few. Lovely mouthfeel and no bitterness at all in the early steeps. Not much sign of age but very smooth and certainly not rough young sheng anymore. Bitterness at a nice level, balanced with a good sweetness, in the middle steeps, though with quite a bit of astringency that leaves the mouth a bit dry.

Preparation
Boiling 0 min, 15 sec 6 g 3 OZ / 100 ML

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65

Nice enough sheng, but a bit boring. Bitterness is at a nice level, but the astringency is crazy! Mouth is dry for hours afterwards. The aroma displays hints of what could develop into a nice aged flavour, but I feel the storage might have been a little too dry here. Would not buy this myself, but it might be to other peoples taste.

Preparation
Boiling 0 min, 15 sec 5 g 3 OZ / 100 ML

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65

Fairly decent. Strong roasted flavour with a little sweetness. No bitterness. A little one note though, not much here apart from the roast.

Preparation
Boiling 0 min, 30 sec 5 g 3 OZ / 100 ML

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70

Still extremely bitter in the early steeps (have to throw the first few as they are just way too much). Develops a very nice sweetness and hints of bamboo in the later steeps, as well as when grandpa’d. Too strong to drink now but hopefully will calm down with time and turn into something very nice.

Flavors: Bamboo, Sweet

Preparation
Boiling 0 min, 15 sec 6 g 3 OZ / 100 ML

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80

Great smoky flavour with a good level of bitterness. The most bang on description of a tea I think I’ve ever read. Does well in both gongfu and grandpa brewing. I hope the smoke doesn’t fade too soon, I love this one.

Flavors: Smoke, Tobacco

Preparation
Boiling 0 min, 15 sec 5 g 3 OZ / 100 ML
loganrah

Oddly this seems to have suddenly started to develop a note of age (maybe even wet storage). I’ve been keep it in a well sealed container in a quite dry room so I’m a bit mystified by this. Might have to open up one of the bricks I’ve got in more humidified storage and see what is happening with them.

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75

Strong bitterness if over brewed or with too much leaf (found that out the hard way). With a lighter ratio and short steep times the bitterness is tamed to a good level. Subtle hints of aged flavour like liu bao or traditionally stored 7542. An underlying dustiness that continues throughout the steeps. Seems like a good candidate for further ageing.

Preparation
Boiling 0 min, 15 sec 5 g 3 OZ / 100 ML
loganrah

The strength of the aged flavour in this tea seems to very quite substantially between sessions. Perhaps different areas of the cake have aged at very different rates? I prefer this tea when the aged flavour is not so overpowering, when it is strong the tea feels a bit thin.

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Novice-Intermediate tea drinker (3 years serious tea drinking). Mostly sheng pu-erh, some oolong, the occasional black western style.

Try to avoid nonsense, hyperbole, and reading too many flavours into a tea. Red wine tastes like fermented grapes most of the time, tea tastes like boiled leaves most of the time. The question is: are they good fermented grapes, are they good boiled leaves?

Rating Scale:

0-25: Throw it out! Not even worth drinking at any price and cannot be gifted in good conscience.

25-50: Would not buy (again), unlikely to drink. Might be worth gifting to friends/family with lower standards (and western brewing only).

50-60: Would not buy (again), just drinkable.

60-70: Would consider buying again at a good price. Interesting or good enough to drink once in a while. Also, teas which I do not personally like but which I can see the objective merits of and might please others.

70-80: Would buy again, daily drinkers.

80-90: Definitely buy, excellent quality.

90-100: Buy at any price, the best of the best (I have never drunk anything this good…).

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