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Ive been drinking this one a while now & really enjoying it.

Wonderful bread/cake aroma from the steeped leaves, ‘rich’ taste but not rich, not quite coffee or chocolate, somewhere in the middle but definitely very nice. It has an air of quality or ‘right’ about it. I am finding it hard to describe this. Soft with a hard hint of bitter/sharpness like nice coffee or dark chocolate..

The wrapper claims it is 60-100 year old Bulang Gong Ting gushu. I paid £50/$70 for the cake & am unsure if this claim is truthful or not but it certainly tastes different from my other puerh which isnt named as gong ting grade.

The qi is a nice feeling, & a very coffee-like aftertaste present. The first time I tried it I was unsure as the taste didnt jump out at me, but now I quite like the ‘less is more’ taste it has. Its more like chocolate brownie crust or something.. Ahhh words are failing me.

I would recommend this if you like unsweetened black coffee & bread/cake, to me it tastes a lot nicer than that but its in that ballpark rather than thick earthy or sweet chocolatey or any kind of storage taste for a shou.

Lightly roasted, sweeter than savoury (honey), a bit of cinnamon & almond. The liquor aroma is as good as the aroma from the gaiwan. Its pretty nice if you like more of a dessert aroma to your yancha. Some fruit in there as well as Orchid. Its not super thick/glossy/creamy/oily but sweet & smooth.

The first four steeps were the nicest, after that the taste and aroma faded into drinking soft pearly water, which is still nice, & with camphor hints that was quite interesting. By the 7th steep I was on 1:30. I think I did 0/5/8/20/30/1:00/1:30, but with half the recommended, 3.5g/100ml, 90-95c. Final steep 2:00 @100c

Premium price but a lovely experience. Next time I will bite the bullet & do 7g/100ml and flash it with boiling water – I think it can take it, and a longer session will be greatly appreciated.

This is my sort of wuyi oolong. Really really smooth, very well roasted with lovely floral taste, basically a perfect description from the website.

Not harsh or overcooked, not astringent, the floral thickness melds perfectly with the roast and hangs around. Nice qi, i feel tingly all over but not shaking or anything.

Maybeeee some chocolate but not really, it really more nails the nature vibe that I love from oolong with really decent balance..

The body has a nice ‘grey wood’ image, kinda thick & muted & soft. Invokes lovely images of the magic of china, mountains, trees, nature. Hits my imagination circuit big time. Teamancer

On about steep 7 now and its beginning to weaken but im still not even on 30 seconds

Probably the nicest yancha ive had from YS for a smooth floral taste..

Wow. This is really interesting..

to me it starts very much like an perfumed light roast rock oolong if you count the aroma from the steeped leaves.. The flash steep wasnt too strong tasting, then a minute later I got hit with a really odd aftertaste. A bit medicinal or like pine needles or something..

second steep, wow. what a crazy flavour.. its thick, sweet, (very slight) smokey, sour, medicinal, fresh pine.. fruit.. lots and lots going on. You can really sip this and its still strong explosions of flavour..
second steep, smells like an oolong, but taste wise there is this really sweeter-than-sour taste like pine needles or something like that. An interesting tea thats for sure. Nice and thick, a lot of honey sweetness taste by the third.
By the fifth I get a slight burnt sugar taste, with the honey and the slight roast.

after that it developed into a sweeter tea, with a raw/sheng leaf aroma, almost perfume-like. still quite thick..

ive had to stop at about ten steeps because its late and i’ve had a few too many.

interesting tea, lots going on here. Maybe it would pair with, or be best at a certain time or with a certain food. Im not sure – recommended to try!

Fresh from 2016 march harvest – green fresh aroma from the bag, nice looking leaf too. Apparently its Assamica which is interesting.

I put 2g in a 12oz glass and hit it with 70c/160f. Strong vegetable aroma, like a really good soup, slightly buttery and nutty. Some of the leaves do that nice thing where they stand up in the bottom of the glass.

Wow, really umami and thick in the mouth. I cant tell you exactly what but definitely spinach-y tasting. There was a lot of flavour, apparently its high in tannins as well which must be adding to the taste a lot. Its really nicely strong for only 2g/12oz.

Zero bitter or sour taste, except a slight souring of the liquor when I got right to the bottom in amongst all those leaves. Slight mouth drying by the second cup, but also a big change in flavour from ‘lovely pungent savoury vegetable soup’ to ‘water youve just cooked your beans in’ – but still enjoyable, I’m just describing the drastic change of strength of the flavour.

Really interestingly umami and vegetal tea. I ended up doing 3 steeps from the 2G, hitting it with hotter water on the third and it was still ok, but not as strong as the initial.

Basically peach Oolong :)

TU’s description is pretty bang on the money, lychee, peach, nuts & pie crust aroma, with a taste of peach and thick mouth. This isnt the thickest I have had though, I actually thought it a bit light – butttttt this is no bad thing – it doesnt have so strong a weird taste you can get when pushing oily dan cong, this just has peach & nuts flavour with floral lushness on top of that

its weird but this tea makes me think of ‘soapy’ but doesnt taste of soap – conjures up images of glossy pearlescent things like soap can be. So good!

Im on steep 9 and its beginning to lose its thickness but still such a lovely aroma and nutty floralness I just had to write this review.

and also bravo for the sample prices which are basically the same percentage as buying large amounts. A good policy and one which means I will definitely be trying more of their tea.

A nice medium compact 7g chunk goes into my (very new, very low profile & very sexy) 100ml gaiwan, quick rinse and the first steep I can smell TCP from the amber liquor, so yes to camphor notes 100%.

There was always a nice aged raisin taste throughout the session, sweet and just right. The dry storage was nicely done to bring out the right taste, it didnt have any sour or varnished notes, and was quite simple in it flavour, but a good one.

Later I pushed it a bit and did get slightly sour notes but nothing offputting, just enough to make me want to smack my lips a bit.

Nice cha qi, I feel relaxed but focused mind.

It was only those two notes I really got. Some floral but nothing that I could recognise or gush over (I am comparing to some pretty amazing Oolong here though, so i dont know if sheng could ever compare), but the two notes did it nicely. Perfect if you just want a good aged fruit flavour – a lot nicer than some others I have tried in this price range, which is $58/400g, im at the 12th steep in two hours, such an easy drinker. The sweet raisin did change into something a bit more sour but it is still quite drinkable.

did 5/7/10/15/20/25 secs etc