Today I am drinking a mystery sheng. I bought it from my local tea shop and probably paid more than it was worth. It is supposed to be a 2008 sheng. If I were to guess it’s age simply by drinking it I would say 2014. It hasn’t aged much. It still looks and tastes like a young sheng. I suppose it could have been aged in very dry conditions. It wasn’t bad that being said. It started out bitter and over the course of eight steeps got relatively sweet. You could even say it developed an apricoty sweetness to it. Overall this was not bad at all but by no means spectacular. I bought it because of the novelty of seeing the tea before I bought it. I may be going back to this shop today. They go by two names, The Infuse Tea Bar and the Pleasures of Tea. They have a sit down tea bar in their shop which is nice because you can pick out any tea they have and have her brew it for you. They do not make you choose off a menu like some shops.
I steeped this eight times in a 150ml gaiwan with 7.1g leaf and boiling water. I ave it a 10 second rinse. I steeped it for 5 sec, 5 sec, 7 sec, 10 sec, 15 sec, 20 sec, 25 sec, and 30 sec. I could have kept going with this tea but I have things I want to do today.
Flavors: Apricot, Bitter, Sweet
