I got a free sample of this tea when I ordered my pu-erh sampler (LOVE Teavivre’s deep understanding of the value of samples!) because I absolutely adored the regular Yun Nan Dian Hong and, well, this was marketed as the best!
I don’t remember the regular Dian Hong being quite this mushroomy. But there’s this sweetness underneath is that is just… not the right kind of sweetness. It’s one of those that went to two places when I took a sip: 1) into my head between my eyes and 2) into my stomach, which did a very slight turn. The best way to describe it would be honeysuckle, which I normally like but somehow it’s just a little odd in this context. I steeped it about 4 or 5 minutes (once again, I didn’t have my eye on the timer), so I can play with parameters, but I’m not sure how much that’ll change. Really, I think the sweetness is my issue. Not a tea quality issue, a my-taste issue.
There’s still a little bit of what I call the “chameleon flavor” with this one, in which the flavor drastically changes as it sits on your tongue.
I’m going to wait on the numbers for now.
