- This is a second review, to find out how different this tea tastes now that it is a decade old -
Brief (5-10 seconds) steeps in 90 Celsius water.
Liquor is a clear medium amber in color.
Taste gives a green-fruitiness on the palate right upfront, slightly jammy, followed by an aftertaste that is a mix of green plum wine and bark.
Mouthfeel is slightly dry and sticky, medium body, medium finish.
Wet leaves are muted olive green in color, with some bronze hue, giving off a sweet aroma of unripe plums and light brown sugar.
Note: The first couple of steeps surprisingly had a hint of bitter note and extra dryness on the palate that translates into almost like an astringency, however, but the 3rd steep the bitterness and dryness started to disappear.
Flavor intensity starts to mellow down by around the 5th/6th infusion, thus best to steep longer from here onwards.
However, a longer (1 minute) steep at the 6th/7th infusion doesn't give much of a difference in taste profile, as it already became quite mellow and consistent after the 5th infusion.
To me the taste difference between 2021 review and now is almost none, despite the 5-year difference in storage.
Overall, it is a flavorful fruity sheng puerh variety.

A truly amazing tea. Probably the best sheng I’ve ever had. My tea experience isn’t that big, but this sheng is something else. It’s like a compote of flavors — prune, rosehip, apple, dried apricot — that also gives you a certain state of mind. The only thing I’ve realized for myself is that this tea is not for company. It’s for deep solitude.

I like its Cha qi. It's probably the only reason for repurchasing. The flavor is nice but it's way too blend for my liking. I've experimented brewing it in different tea-making-vessels from a porcelain gaiwan to different kinds of clay teapots, still i need to put much more tea leaves to get that flavor up. Overall I don't think this is a bad tea, I just like my pu-erh a little bolder.

I brewed 5 grams / 100 ml water, at 95 degrees Celsius, starting with 5 second steeps.

Very interesting and unusual tea, relatively mild and it has a certain freshness about it, despite it's age. Different from an usual sheng, reminds me partly of a white tea.

Notes that I found: a lot of fruitiness (plums, green apples, baked apple peel), some sweet woodiness (reminds me of fresh bamboo shoots), orange peel, and slight minerality

Texture wise, it has a certain creamy thickness that reminds me of corn milk, which also resonates with the sweetness that can be found in the flavor profile.

Definitely worth buying. Its an awesome tea!
Words can't describe it.