Tonight I enjoyed the 2015 1000 year sheng from Verdant Tea thanks to a friend.
No need to discuss age of tree or the past issues, this tea has came a long way: https://steepster.com/Proust614/posts/328940
So… 100% serious here: Yesterday I had YQH all night which prepped me to go back to a tea of ‘quality’ and check it out. This happened to be the tea I chose. I find this tea picking up not only body but a sense of dense and deep flavor within the darkening leaf. The original small 100g cakes, which I dislike regardless of who presses them, was completely green and now is more olive with darker tones to it. At this point I am somewhat upset that I don’t have a full cake as this is really really good. Maybe all the hype at the time made people drink it up too quick to really figure out if it could become something amazing because that’s all I am noticing.
Strong body, nice body heat, and a very deep vegetable note under the young raw taste that is no longer astringent. Very satisfied with my session of this tea tonight. I really look forward to trying the 1800 year again, but I am down to like 15g in my pumidor…. oh I really want to see if it has become as wonderful as this.
Question though: Anyone else find a tea to develop a strong body after just two years when it wasn’t present before (or maybe it was and the astringency made it so I couldn’t notice)
