Yesterday's tea was the 2005 Teji tuo sent out in the white2tea tea of the month program. I found it to be fairly similar to the Xiaguan Cang'er tuo, like the Bo Nan Yun Wu Yuan Cha, but this tea has more of a penchant for depth than either. It's a very north sort of floral tea. I wasn't really crazy about it, and it did emphasize just how professional Xiaguan is. It had small amount of qi, and the last cups before death (wasn't very durable), were very nicely shengy honey and pleasant to drink. Suspect with even more time, it will be more of an appealing drink.
Today I had the Jiajingtang Malishu Yibang. The leaves were tiny! This was a pretty standard Yibang, with slightly fruity sheng-honey. There is often a pretty good long lasting cooling with some mint notes underneath it after the main taste. Some slight tendency for Yiwu huigans, but light and very late. Viscosity is generally just enough or a bit more. Astringency does build and decline during the session. The back end of the session was very weird. It started off with a more pronounced forest taste and some florals, and the next cup was an intense floral soup that was so dominating and unbalanced that I thought dishwasher soap had gotten into it somehow. Think of a cheap moliang dancong or something like that. That jasmine mostly dominated one cup, declined a bit the next, and then disappeared. The tea weakened to uninteresting low flavors soon after. This was only an okay tea that basically isn't of interest, even for daily drinking--their being so many perfectly fine Yibangs out there.
Today I had the Jiajingtang Malishu Yibang. The leaves were tiny! This was a pretty standard Yibang, with slightly fruity sheng-honey. There is often a pretty good long lasting cooling with some mint notes underneath it after the main taste. Some slight tendency for Yiwu huigans, but light and very late. Viscosity is generally just enough or a bit more. Astringency does build and decline during the session. The back end of the session was very weird. It started off with a more pronounced forest taste and some florals, and the next cup was an intense floral soup that was so dominating and unbalanced that I thought dishwasher soap had gotten into it somehow. Think of a cheap moliang dancong or something like that. That jasmine mostly dominated one cup, declined a bit the next, and then disappeared. The tea weakened to uninteresting low flavors soon after. This was only an okay tea that basically isn't of interest, even for daily drinking--their being so many perfectly fine Yibangs out there.