2022 “Chocolate Noir” Craft Ripe Pu-erh Tea

Brewed with boiling water, ratio 5g/100ml, first few steeps around 10 seconds, increasing the time gradually.
To me it tastes like chocolate mousse: creamy, sweet, chocolate-like flavor, and the richness of a dessert that has added heavy cream and eggs. I found it sweet, with very little bitterness. The aftertaste is oily and slightly cooling on the throat. In the later steeps, the nuttiness was a lot more present, along with a tannin-like taste that you can find in black teas.
Very clean and smooth taste, no earthiness or wet cellar aroma like you find in a lot of ripe puerh.

Good shu, drinkable, long. The flavor has the bitterness of dark 75% chocolate. Something from cereals, either muesli or granola, the flavor is clear from the first to the last steep, negative notes do not pop up, does not go into oil. I drank it twice, with teapots made of Nixin and Yixin clay, in Nixin more brutal, I didn't like it very much, but in Yixin from Duan Ni, it turned out to be just nectar. One more important point, the tea is very strong, from the first cup it is hard to sit still, in a good sense, immediately want to do something, all this without any tremor and dryness. The tea is worthy. Thank you for the sample!

Take 2 in yixing pot which is usually my preferred choice of vessel for shou.
It was very nice, like dark bittersweet chocolate and wild honey. I think yixing muted that berry flavor I experienced in ruyao teapot. It was very nice, rich and satisfying. I have some left for one last session and I want to chase that raspberry chocolate in my ruyao pot again.
Also, reading the description on their site, they mentioned adding Bai Hao Yin Zhen which makes it Golden Needle White Lotus-grade style shou. It was one of my favorite Dayi shou.
I recommend trying it!

I was surprised at how smooth and clean this shou was (as usual I didn’t read the description and assumed it was 2022 material).
Clean and zero funk. It’s like dark chocolate pudding with berry jam on top. This fluffy mouthfeel is quite unique. I don’t remember any other shou with such a taste profile. And berry flavor in shou? I was shocked tbh. It went thru so many steeps that I lost count. Great uplifting energy, it would be a perfect morning tea for me.