48 Tasting Notes

75

This is my second review for this tea using a different brand of bottle water. Tea smell resinous and cantaloup. Tea soup is clear, transparent, beautiful and gold in colour.

15 Seconds rinse, 1st steep (3:00 min): First sip has a light resinous flavour. The resin taste seem darker like a bit burned as you drink it. Feel warm on my face, middle of my stomach and both front of my arms. What is that taste after swallowing the tea? Can’t pin point this one, is it woodsy? As the tea cool down the resinous taste is weaker with a subtle hint of sweetness and a slight bitterness starting to reveal itself. A mix of bitterness and earth replace the resin taste.

2nd Steep (4:00 min): Tea smell woody and resinous, first sip is bitter and maybe kind of a dark wood. Using Naya water instead of Nestle water seem to have a huge impact on this tea, with Naya water brand it is rough, darker, more earthy and less sweeter. As the tea cool down the resinous taste mix with the dark wood. At the end, it is the resinous and bitterness taste that are showing the most.

Lowering the rating of this tea because no sugary flavours are present, it still good enough but I will stick using Nestle Pure Life water brand or I might adjust the amount or/and steep time.

WATER USED: Naya Natural Spring Water

Flavors: Bitter, Burnt, Dark Wood, Earth, Resin, Sweet, Wood

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 250 ML

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75

Quick rinse. 1st brew 3:10 min. : Slightly earthy, mellow and sweet, with medium dryness. Tea feel warm on my face and at the back of my throat. Taste like a piece of a dried fruit but I can’t seem to pin point the exact one. A good smooth tea, no complexity. Earthy flavour disappearing as the tea cool down, only a very sweet brown sugar and dried fruit taste remain.

2nd brew 4:15 min. : Sweet, slighlty earthy with a hint of bitterness still a medium dryness. Bitterness disappearing as the tea cool down. Brown sugar again, appear as the tea cool down with a hint of dried fruit, very smooth. Tea feel warm on my face, warm on the front of both arms and at the back of my throat.

WATER USED: Nestle Pure life

Flavors: Bitter, Brown Sugar, Dried Fruit, Earth, Sugar, Sweet

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 15 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 240 ML

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73

One 10 seconds rinse. 1st brew at 3:00 minutes: The soup is light, clear and gold in colour. Woody and earthy, this tea has a different tone than what I’m used to, the mix of the woody and earthy flavours gave rise to another taste that I can’t identify yet. It is more earthy than vegetal, like a forest with allot of trees and dirt. As a drink this tea, a honey flavour is progressively revealing itself.

Definitely sweeter as the tea cool down. The earthy flavours seem to diminish but the honey is getting stronger. As a drink it, all the flavours are merging together and about the same strength. Last sip has an earthy chocolate taste.

2nd brew 4:00 minutes: Earthy flavours are more pronounced than the first brew, starting to be a little bit bitter. After a few sip, it is earthy, bitter and slightly honey. Then, the honey notes are gone changing into a medium smokiness bitterness flavour.

3rd brew 4:45 minutes: Definitely smokey and earthy, at this point it is very dry. It started mellow, then it increased in dryness over many stepping.

I think, this one has more caffeine than the others puer that I had drink from my collection.

Let’s get out and bring out our bikes in this forest trail…we may found something interesting and comforting or we may disappear for a while.

Is it like a kind of “middle puer tea?” meaning something between a sheng and a ripe puer? Perhaps!

WATER USED: Nestle Pure Life

Flavors: Bitter, Chocolate, Dirt, Earth, Forest Floor, Honey, Smoke, Wood

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 250 ML

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74

With this one, it is hard to get the same taste every-time. I must say, this cake doesn’t taste as good as the 2007 Yunnan Liming Raw Pu’er Tea by Liming Tea Factory that I bought at Berylleb King Tea on ebay. So, I must lower my rating for this one.

One 15 seconds rinse, 1st brew 3:00 minutes: Small first sip taste earthy, resinous with a hint of bitterness. It is less tasty than the other brews that I did in the past. As it cool down it is more sweeter without bitterness and the earthy flavour is almost gone.

2nd brew at 4:00 minutes: It taste the same as the first brew.

Water Used: Nestle Pure Life

Flavors: Bitter, Earth, Resin, Sweet

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 250 ML

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75

1 Rinse, 1st brew 3:00 min; second brew 4:30 min. : This is a delicate mellow sweet brown sugar tea with a hint of a lightly resinous taste, slightly bitter and earthy. A Subtle, and nice tea with a little bit of dryness and smokiness.

WATER USED: Nestle Pure Life

Flavors: Bitter, Brown Sugar, Earth, Resin, Smoke, Sweet

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 250 ML

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75

15 seconds rinse, 1st brew 3:00 min: Slightly resinous with a hint of bitterness at the first sip. Subsequent sipping taste like a mix of lemon and lime, it feel citrusy in the mouth with a slight resinous after taste. Ending with a clean taste with no bitterness.

Second brew at 4:30 min. feel earthy with tingling sensation and taste like ground black pepper — slightly bitter with earthy taste. The bitterness is stronger as the tea cool down with a slightly smoky tase.

WATER USED: Nestle Pure Life

Flavors: Bitter, Black Pepper, Citrusy, Earth, Lemon, Lime, Resin, Smoke

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 250 ML

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76

This is my second review of this tea using different water type with same brew parameters. – A tea that I like to drink on a rainy day -

1st brew (3:40 Sec.): A medium sour and bitter dark chocolate tea. This brew is stronger if you using Naya Natural Water than the Nestle Pure Life bottle water.

The bitterness, sour and dark chocolate flavours are less pronounced as you drink it, and cocoa flavour is starting to reveal itself. If you like more the cocoa flavour than the dark chocolate, you should use Naya Natural Spring Water instead of Nestle Pure Life.

2nd brew (4:25 Sec.): It taste sweeter, less sour and bitter with dark chocolate and cocoa notes.

WATER USED: Naya Natural Spring Water

Flavors: Bitter, Cocoa, Dark Chocolate, Pleasantly Sour, Sweet

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 2 min, 45 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 250 ML

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80
drank Huang Jin Gui by World of Tea
48 tasting notes

15 seconds rinse.
1st stepping 2:00 minutes; 2nd steeping 3:00 minutes and last steeping 4:00 minutes.

Taste good, a light creamy sweet vegetal fresh salty marine tea. I can feel an after toasty taste. As you brew more of it, after swallowing it, I can taste a very light grassy citrusy flavours that disappear quickly. At the last cup I had, it taste vanilla with a more citrusy flavour.

It feel first warm on both my arms and then in the middle of my chest, very comforting.

It is way better than the Gu Zao Oolong Organic but not as good as the Jin Xuan Oolong (both are from World of Tea).

WATER USED: Nestle Pure Life

Flavors: Citrusy, Creamy, Grass, Marine, Salty, Sweet, Toasty, Vanilla, Vegetal

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 2 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 240 ML

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73

First stepping 1:40 and second steeping 2:10, Definitely taste like raspberry with a very slight touch of bitterness. The rose flavour increase over time as you drink the tea. It feel-taste like as if I was walking in a forest — there is a taste that I have difficult to pin point maybe like a rainforest kind of.

A night under a full moon, I feel relaxed and drifting in dreams. A warm gentle breeze on my skin, walking into a forest hearing piano notes. The infinity, I don’t want to wake up.

WATER USED: Nestle Pure Life

Flavors: Bitter, Rainforest, Raspberry, Rose

Preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 1 min, 45 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 240 ML

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