I managed to determine this was a sheng through some online sleuthing. I can’t remember where or when I bought it. The cake has an interesting arboreal smell and pried apart easily.
I rinsed with boiling water and let the leaves sit for 15 minutes, then steeped in the gaiwan at 5/5/7/7/10/10/20/30/40/60
The tea has a sort of peachy-gold color and smelled and tasted like that sort of fudgy, white chocolate, butter flavor that I often get from shengs.
The color darkened slightly after the first steep, but the flavor was consistent through all 10 steeps.
I loved the way the leaves looked after steeping — big, green, expansive. They expanded like oolong leaves.
I’m not sure why I seem to get the same flavors from sheng over and over again. I was kind of looking forward to something new and different? But it’s tasty, even though it isn’t delivering something new and different.
Flavors: Butter, Chocolate, White Chocolate