Another one I’ve been drinking daily/near daily.
The good: it is cheap, better leaf grade than Xiaguan, old enough to make a solid orange soup, cheap, and free of obvious defects or any humid taste.
The bad: it is cheap, tea from 2008, huangpian, maybe autumn tea. Hell, maybe this was made from the last stripping of leaf from a stressed tree at the height of the bubble. It seems kind of weak.
But it is cheap, and fairly decent for 8 or so steeps if you give it some time. It has the starting-to-get-aged taste, some bitterness, a little smoke, some sweet. There is a little clinging aftertaste that reminds me of bergamot.
There are ways to get decent tea with some age like this at a cheaper price but maybe not after you factor in the risk of buying garbage.
