It’s at a good place in development – nine years of age and moving to the clearer side. My ratio is about 1g/13ml. This tea needs a 15s wash hot and it is ready to go. Leaves are not too sleepy. After the rinse, the first steep is really just things waking up. Second to fourth infusions are where it is important to me to get the steep time and temperature right. If I nurture the tea well in those infusions, I can get about 13 infusions total. 渥堆 is not awful – it melds with the medicinal notes in the tea and will back off by fourth infusion. After that is a fungal period, then sweetness, little wood notes here and there. I do not experience cocoa or bitterness.
Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C
