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Smooth, sweet, with a clean golden orange soup. Noted a fleeting bitterness and stone fruit aroma.

I’d bought a few sheng samples, this one has me wanting a cake. A lovely tea.

There are reviews here for the 2016 and 2017 productions which is one reason I tried it this year. See those notes for more detail.

I’m glad I found Chinese greens, they are a good fit for me over the Japanese ones.

This tea has umami both on the nose and in the taste. I like the marine, buttery, vegetal, chestnut notes.

Edit:
The wet leaf can easily become bitter so I doubt I will purchase this one again.

I am new to Taiwanese boutique shengs and learning from samples.

It is easy enough to take note of sweet, bitter, leaf endurance, mouth and body feels etc. Some complexity to engage you while drinking the tea…

I found this particular sheng woody, and not interesting enough to want more. That may be my inexperience speaking but after 3 sessions I moved on.

Sip down of sheng samples.

This 2005 Yesheng (Wild) was clean and sweet, I could still taste it an hour later.

Like the man said, "A wild picked picked raw puerh that has no remaining bitterness but plenty of umph. Notes of roast as you would get in a lightly roasted dancong, a smoke that disappears, and a bunch of fruits under it all. "

Definitely my cuppa tea.

First time I have tried Black Gold Bi Luo Chun" and this 2017 production.
I like the malty sweetness and hints of chocolate.
It is always a treat when an enjoyable tea has a budget price so it can become a daily drinker.
I’m going to order the 2018 and keep it for a year as I’ve found Yunnan black teas are often at their best a year after processing.

After letting the cake rest from traveling, recommendation was for a couple of weeks, I opened the wrapper for a preliminary session.

It was very fresh so I decided to break up the piece I’d split off and let it rest in a jar for about 6 weeks after which it relaxed and gave up a nice aroma and taste.

This tea seems more complex than one might expect from a ripe. I have been ordering more sheng lately but a shu like Rooster King and the now sold out Green Miracle draw me back for a comforting brew.

I received two samples with an order.

The dragon ball was easy to unfurl and made for an enjoyable session.

It isn’t complex but the qi is pleasant, it would be a nice tea to take along when traveling.

10 g free sample which I split into two sessions, one after another.

I tend to enjoy maocha so this looser leaf pressing was familiar and so was the brewing.

It was enjoyable quality tea, I would consider buying a cake during their sales as a daily drinker.

Very tightly compressed, easy does it.

The leaf can be bitter which I don’t like in a white tea but hang in there, after experimentation it became sweet and long lasting. This is an interesting tea.

Every year I enjoy this delicious tea so I make sure not to run out.