2016 Sheng Olympics
This one was a bit different. It has a slightly different flavour, like all the purple varietals I have tried before – this has a similar pleasantly sour flavour, and is quite lively in the feeling it gives you. I had to stop every once in a while because caffeine started kicking in.
Its an interesting flavour, not something I am really used to, having only tried a few different processing types of purple tea.
Throughout the session the sourness got sweeter. I am on the second day drinking it and it is stonefruit flavour and aroma. With also something softer, but I am having trouble picking out the correct term for it. I am preferring today, I think mainly because this is still a flavour I am trying to wrap my head around. I dont know if its for everyone – but you could say that for a lot of sheng, right?
I would love to see what this tea tastes like aged. Maybe I should start buying some?
Flavors: Pleasantly Sour, Stonefruit
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You should try the “Ying Shan Hong.” I made 8 24 ounce pots of it yesterday, and had it throughout the day. However, I was unable to fall asleep when needed. It’s very sweet and has a great mouth-feel at the back of the throat. It was almost “refreshing” as well as rejuvenating to the body! It was the “I feel awake, but not shaky” kind of feeling. Or, what I’ve been told in the past, “positively tea drunk.”
PS. I’ve been struggling with “naming that flavor” in the “Ying Shan Hong,” too. I want to say “sweet river water” or some kind of unnamed fruit(?). Ha. Ha.
I get slight kinesthesia/mental images from tea, sometimes its things like ‘tastes like a ship in a storm’ and thats the image it gives me haha. sweet river water I can actually understand :)
I’ll try that one. it wasnt in the sheng olympics was it.? I’m on tea buying hiatus until I have more cash. Theres a few cakes from YS I know I want but also waiting until after ive drank all these to have a bit more knowledge on what I like.
Rasseru- it wasn’t. I just buy teas at random, and hope for the best! Ha. Ha. I’d buy more tea, but I’m on a tea hiatus merely for the fact that I’ve spent too much in January on tea, and increased my tea cabinet by 15 tea cakes/bricks! Which, is quite a lot. Ha. Ha.
You should try the “Ying Shan Hong.” I made 8 24 ounce pots of it yesterday, and had it throughout the day. However, I was unable to fall asleep when needed. It’s very sweet and has a great mouth-feel at the back of the throat. It was almost “refreshing” as well as rejuvenating to the body! It was the “I feel awake, but not shaky” kind of feeling. Or, what I’ve been told in the past, “positively tea drunk.”
PS. I’ve been struggling with “naming that flavor” in the “Ying Shan Hong,” too. I want to say “sweet river water” or some kind of unnamed fruit(?). Ha. Ha.
I get slight kinesthesia/mental images from tea, sometimes its things like ‘tastes like a ship in a storm’ and thats the image it gives me haha. sweet river water I can actually understand :)
I’ll try that one. it wasnt in the sheng olympics was it.? I’m on tea buying hiatus until I have more cash. Theres a few cakes from YS I know I want but also waiting until after ive drank all these to have a bit more knowledge on what I like.
Rasseru- it wasn’t. I just buy teas at random, and hope for the best! Ha. Ha. I’d buy more tea, but I’m on a tea hiatus merely for the fact that I’ve spent too much in January on tea, and increased my tea cabinet by 15 tea cakes/bricks! Which, is quite a lot. Ha. Ha.