Possible spoilers for Liquid Proust Mystery Group Buy ahead
Today I tried the tea labeled #2 from LP’s Mystery Group buy. It was pretty good as far as shou is concerned. I’m finding that I can enjoy ripe puerh, but I sort of have to force myself to drink it, so I think I’ll be focusing more on sheng, oolong, and other stuff as I continue on my tea journey.
Anywho, this one had a slight wet aroma, but nothing bad. The leaves were quite small, appeared to be like gongting grade to my inexperienced eye. A such, the tea got going quickly and died out pretty quickly as well. I did two brief rinses (probably would have been ok with one), then steeps of 10s, 7s, 10s, 15s, 25s, 45s, 60s, 3m(ish). Taste was sweet and woody. Got a small sourish notes in the first couple steeps, followed with a sweet, slightly chocolatey aftertaste which stayed in my mouth. First 4 steeps were that nice jet-black shou color, and lightened up along with the flavor, and more notably the texture, from then. Last steeps were still good, just less thickness and sweetness, more of a clean woody taste.
Not sure which of the three this might be. Like I said previously, I think that #1 is the fake 2015 cake, because it just tasted so wet to me. Right now I’m going to say this was the 2010 GNWL, because #3 had a bit more of an aged, camphor thing going on. Thankfully I have enough to do another session with both #3 and #2, so maybe I’ll get a bit of a better idea.
Flavors: Chocolate, Creamy, Sweet, Wood
