2005 Chen Yue Chen Octagonal Cooked Puerh

I took the name of this tea as much from the Google Chrome translation as possible. I bought this recently using the Taobao agent Taobao Focus. This tea was a risk because I had no knowledge of it. For all I knew it could have been terrible or fishy. Luckily it was neither terrible or fishy. There was a fair amount of fermentation flavor to this tea despite it being from 2005, or at least that was the year the Taobao seller said it was from. It was fairly bittersweet in the start. This lasted four or five steeps before it developed more of a sweet note. Not sure if I would call this one chocolaty but I did like it. I think it was not quite as good as the one from Long Run Tea that I reviewed yesterday or the day before.

I steeped this tea twelve times in a 150ml gaiwan with 13.3g 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, 1 min, 1.5 min, and 2 min. I could get a couple more steeps out of these leaves if I wanted to continue.