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“High aging potential old growth picking sheng with notes of peppercorn and potato. . . .”
This impressive sheng is a special old-growth tea tree picking with beautiful buds and leaves. The aroma is sweet like vanilla ice cream, savory like yams, and pungent with a note of musk.
The first steepings are crisp and sweet with pear notes and a lingering peppercorn flavor. The aftertaste is impressively strong and drawn out for such a young tea. Slowly, the savory notes start to emerge, first a grain-like toasted wheat flavor, and then something closer to mashed potatoes with sweet cream and butter.
This tea has a long steeping life, and not even the slightest hint of dryness. The intense, sweet-spicy aftertaste tells us that this has great potential for further development, so we bought all 35 remaining cakes that Lao Tong Zhi’s rep in Qingdao had to sell us. She said that the stock went extremely fast as tea shops were eager to buy up the stock for aging and later re-release.
NOTES: crisp, peppercorn, potato, wheat, vanilla
Date of Picking: 2012
Location of Picking: An Ning, Yunnan, China
What Was Picked: Large leaves and buds from old growth tea trees
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