This is clearly a tea that is just starting to age. It has lost the bitterness that most young sheng have. It has also lost the fruityness. It is very smooth. In a different way it is sweet. I did not find the need to add any sugar to this. A year ago I probably would have. The tea’s color has just started to change. It is a dark yellow but darker than most new sheng. The tea has not yet acquired the aged taste that older teas get and can sometimes be unpleasant. When I bought this I chose between this and the 2015 Pin. I decided to go with this simply because not everyone was drinking it and it was a little older. From beginning to end this was a smooth tea. It is clearly in transition. I think that after I move this needs to find it’s way into my pumidor.
I steeped this tea ten times in a 120ml gaiwan with 8.5g leaf and boiling water. I gave it a 10 second rinse and a 10 minute rest. I steeped it for 5 sec, 5 sec, 7 sec, 10 sec, 15 sec, 20 sec, 25 sec, 30 sec, 45 sec, and 1 min. This tea was not done at ten steeps. I’m sure I could get a few more steeps out of it if I wanted to continue but ten steeps with a 120ml gaiwan is a lot of tea.
Flavors: Sweet
This is great. Good dry storage and the tea is thick in the throat. I was really surprised on how this one was.
I thought is was pretty good too. No notes of wet storage at all, somewhat surprising for White2Tea.
Grr..
Does that mean you didn’t like it?
It means I was trying to remove it from my White2Tea basket, but then was prevented to by you two enablers. Grr..