Recommended
Had this with 4g and boiling water in my 60mL gaiwan. I was worried it’d be pretty bitter, but I hardly found it to be so at all, probably in part due to the fact I kept steep time low for the first 4-5.
Early steeps had a powerful, woody, kind of nutty taste with a bit of a bitter finish. As the session went on, the bitter finish turned into a mostly sweet taste, but the tea did have a decent mouth-drying effect. Flavors remained mostly the same throughout the session, so not particularly interesting, but was not at all unpleasant.
Flavors: Bitter, Nutty, Smoke, Wood
Preparation
Boiling
0 min, 15 sec
4 g
2 OZ / 60 ML
Yeah, agreed on the astringency. I’m finding that to be a characteristic I really enjoy in my young sheng.
When it’s balanced, astringency/bitterness really adds to a tea for sure :)