Summary: Inexpensive for age buy from YS, at great value. Starts with robust smokey hay and mushroom and finishes sweet grassy. Big body.
Prep: 5g, 60cc gaiwan, boiling. Rinse, 10s, increasing from there for about 12 steeps.
Sessions with this tea: 10+.
Taste: Starts off with smokey hay, and salty mushroom in a rounded, robust-feeling flavor, with a lovely cool sweet dew aftertaste. Minimal minerality, mild bitterness and mild astringency. The savory flavor drops out and it turns into sweet grass after 6 steeps, remains cooling throughout. Previous reviewer mentioned melon, I could see that. Big hui gan.
Body: huge burst of bright concentrated energy in my neck and upper chest. Mouthfeel is “rounded” throughout. Salivated and continued feeling and tasting this tea for like 2 hours after I finished. Update: have finished several more sessions with this tea, still enjoying it.
Flavors: Grass, Hay, Hot Hay, Mushrooms
