I really enjoy the aroma: exquisite deep mushroom, rotting wood, mineral, humid moss. With each steep I put my hand over my cup and then took in the aroma, the highlight of this tea, along with its grounding qi.
Also the texture at its best: oily, almost syrupy, smooths out into velvet.
Flavors transform from:
1. Initial smoky and burnt, strong edge
2. Wet moss and leaves
3. Musty and moldy leather boots in the Amazon jungle: “hongeado” in Spanish.
Very calming, grounding, contemplative, steady.
Didn’t see this as an everyday tea. A tea to get excited about drinking on a cold autumn day, rainy, cloudy, thinking deep thoughts, reflecting, reading poetry, musing.
Flattened out at 7 steeps and maxed out at 10 steeps (using 5 grams in 75 ml).
Flavors: Burnt, Decayed wood, Mineral, Mushrooms, Musty, Rainforest, Smoke, Wet Moss, Wet Wood
