Drinking this again to see if I still like it as much as before. This is a truly phenomenal tea in my opinion. It had no real bitterness. It had a sweet note from the beginning. I was not paying close attention but I thinnk you could say there were some chocolate notes in this. There were no negative notes of any kind. That is somewhat rare for a 10 year old tea. This is a very expensive tea. It is perhaps the most expensive bing in my collection gram for gram. He does sell sample sizes on this and i definitely recommend one. I gave this fourteen steeps in a 100ml teapot with 8g leaf and I am doubtful that I would have gotten any more steeps. But fourteen good steeps is pretty respectable.
I steeped this tea fourteen times in a 100ml teapot with 8g leaf and boiling water. I gave it a 10 second rinse. I steepedit for 5 sec, 5 sec, 7 sec, 10 sec, 15 sec, 20 sec, 25 sec, 30 sec, 45 sec, 1 mini, 1.5 min, 2 min, 2.5 min,and 3 minutes.
