2007 Longyu Brand Bulangshan Jin Cha Ripe 250g

Average Tea

Wet leaves are giving off a very earthy smell. Fruitiness in the aroma is not significant.

Very dark infusion. The taste is very earthy. Sweetness is comming back to the mouth in the aftertaste, but it is still quite overlapped by earthiness. There is also a light smokiness in the mouth in aftertaste.

The taste is rather "sharper" and earthier. There is also some energy in tea. I am sipping my tea in the morning on an empty stomach and I can feel light hint of energy in my head.

Longer steeping is producing very thick consistency brew. It is then leaving a slightly irritating scratchy and bitter feeling in the throat. Shorter infusions are OK.

It is an average tea. Missing the complexity of flavors, mostly dominated by earthiness. Suitable for unpretentious tea-lover, or to treat hangover - when the taste buds are crippled by an alcohol – it will certainly do its job :-)
Price is good and matches the quality of tea $ 8.80 for 250g mushroom.

8g per 170ml - rinsing - 20s/7/10/12/15/20/30

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