Had a second session with this tea yesterday in the late afternoon. I’ve been drinking some pretty earthy-tasting hei cha lately and have started acquiring more tolerance for humid storage tastes. But I still find with teas like this that the humid flavor dominates all through the session, not just the first few steeps. In particular, I don’t get the camphor or fruity notes the vendor description talks about. I have broken up my sample into smaller flakes, and will let it air out for a few more weeks to see if that makes any difference.
If you can get past the humid taste, this is a good solid tea. It easily goes 10 steeps before really starting to fall off, and you’ll get proper red aged soup strong enough to raise a tea sweat. I started off the session wondering how this tea is really better than YS’s considerably cheaper aged Liu An, and by that 10th steep had realized that this Yiwu wins on both strength and longevity.
Flavors: Sweet, Wet Rocks
