Yong Pin Hao Tea Factory
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No earthiness here, just sweetness and shows great maturity for this sheng. Raisins and brown sugar are the dominate notes. Very lovely tea.
Flavors: Apple Skins, Brown Sugar, Hot hay, Raisins
Preparation
Tealizzy, I got a sample of this from http://www.jas-etea.com/ I’m not sure if they still have it available on their website, however you might contact them and double check to see if they are willing to release some personal stash? I do recommend this tea. Very, very nice. I’m gonna be looking out for a cake of it, for myself:)
Looks like they have a 2003 version…wonder if it’s as good. It’s 80 bucks for the cake, but they have a sample size for $13.
Smeared all over the outside of this cake are long, graceful, slender, twisted curls of the tea tree, each anointed with a beautiful haze of fine white fuzz. The rinse breathes an intense, browned-caramel toffee sensation from the leaves; surprising, but enjoyable. The first steeps are nothing but pure butter, with all that delectable light, fruity Yiwu essence coming in a silky, smooth vehicle. The soup a bright, even yellow, the tea hardly oxidizes as it sits in the cup.
As amazing the leaves, the aroma, and the flavor, oh, to live for that finish, that aftertaste, that graceful departure from the tongue. Cooling and minty above, lingering, herbal and dry below. Rounded, complex, soft, elegant, tight and easily remembered. Using only a scant five grams of large unbroken leaves in a 120 mL gaiwan, the overall bitterness is much reduced, but still pleasingly balanced. This kind of bingcha is exactly why I drink puerh.
Full blog post: http://tea.theskua.com/?p=318
I am definitely no expert, but it seems like terroir would be the main factor for any kind of tea in determining weather it is high quality or not. Certainly processing is important, but if the tea bushes are bad in the first place, it doesn’t matter how you process them, you still will have bad tea. Right?
I think that’s the gist of it. Processing is certainly an artisanal process, but one that strives to not screw up the leaf, but to preserve its truest essence in whatever form is desired, as best as possible.
