Opening up the little sample pack I get a strong whiff of “green”. I haven’t had much sheng so young in a while.
This one brews up a bright yellow-gold. Prominent mushroom and fresh mint notes with some green wood, dried herbs, and raw winter squash. Moderately thick mouthfeel with just a bit of bitterness and astringency. As I steep on it gets more honeyed and herbaceous and reminds me a bit of the mead that I tried at a restaurant recently. I get some warm, mellow, floaty qi feels. This is a potent tea that goes many brews.
This is a nice and unique young sheng. I’d like a little more bitterness and strength out of it for aging purposes, but it’s nice, mellow, and potent and the mint and mushroom combination is really nice. Depending on how I like the other samples this might be a cake for me.
Flavors: Butternut Squash, Green Wood, Herbaceous, Honey, Mint, Mushrooms
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I bout a sample a while back and ended getting like 3 cakes after that. At its price the quality and uniqueness is unbeatable. :D
Don’t encourage me! After finishing the session I’m pretty set on at least one cake, it really is a good tea :P
The mushroom descriptor turned me off initially, but after trying some samples I really came to like this one.
Yeah, mushroom and tobacco have such a wide range of flavors that its weird. Qing Mei Shan and Bai Ni Shui have mushroom flavors but are worlds apart.
That reminds me to revisit the 2014 QMS tomorrow. :)
I bout a sample a while back and ended getting like 3 cakes after that. At its price the quality and uniqueness is unbeatable. :D
Don’t encourage me! After finishing the session I’m pretty set on at least one cake, it really is a good tea :P
The mushroom descriptor turned me off initially, but after trying some samples I really came to like this one.
Yeah, mushroom and tobacco have such a wide range of flavors that its weird. Qing Mei Shan and Bai Ni Shui have mushroom flavors but are worlds apart.
That reminds me to revisit the 2014 QMS tomorrow. :)