I purchased a sample size of this to try it along with a brick of the 2008 Imperial Bulang, a 220ml gaiwan, and a Basset Hound tea pet.
The dry leaves have a very clean scent. Almost non-existent. After a ten second rinse, the leaves have an earthy fermentation scent often associated with a ripe. There is definitely a wood scent as well.
First steep, the color is a lighter brown. Cinnamon caramel brown, perhaps. The taste is very light. You get just a hint of that woody flavor that relates to the scent of the wet leaves. Smooth too. Slides right down the throat.
Further along, the color deepens a bit. The flavor intensifies as well. I am a man who works with wood often. I cut and chop wood. I burn wood. I walk among the woods. This is very much a woody puerh. Think about walking in the woods and finding a tree that has been downed for a bit. Use a hatchet to split it open along the grain. Lean your nose in to that freshly cut wood. That is what I’m getting here.
Clean, earthy wood. I think that sums this up nicely. I don’t get much that says sweet but it is very smooth.
Flavors: Earth, Wood
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I live in the forest, a source of wood. I kick trees down with my bare feet. I use entire trunks as toothpicks. I ride bears to sources of more exotic wood. I construct decks and homes out of that wood for the less fortunate and/or less manly.
I am a man of simple means and simple pleasures. I use wood to cook all of my food. My house smells of rich mahogany. I write words on the corpses of dead trees. I should get out of this before I make a dirty joke about wood.
I live in the forest, a source of wood. I kick trees down with my bare feet. I use entire trunks as toothpicks. I ride bears to sources of more exotic wood. I construct decks and homes out of that wood for the less fortunate and/or less manly.
I am a man of simple means and simple pleasures. I use wood to cook all of my food. My house smells of rich mahogany. I write words on the corpses of dead trees. I should get out of this before I make a dirty joke about wood.