2005 Chang Tai Gold Bamboo Mountain (Sheng Puer)

This is a sample I got from Bret, Thanks again for everything!
That is also a new cup I got from him a "Red Shino" by Petr Novak

The tea itself smells sort of clean. There really isn't much smell to this tea.
Even as the hot water goes into the pot with the leaves there still isn't much of a smell.
I am not really used to not being able to smell anything other then like a clean green smell.

The taste of the soup is very light and clean. With an undertone of bitter vegetal tastes. The bitterness went away after the first infusion though, maybe I just steeped it too long. Lighter then before. The Vegetal undertones came out more in the second infusion, tasting like a really light soup broth almost.

This was a very interesting(yet simple) tea, certainly not my favorite but worth a try and I look forward to trying the other Chang Tai sample I got. It was a good start to the morning!

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So I should start off by saying sorry for not having any posts in a long time!
I have been in Ecuador for about two weeks.
Going from the Andes mountain range all the way down to the Amazon river basin near the Napo river and back!
I saw over 250 bird species 20 mammal species 15 reptile and amphibian species one of which being a blue caecilian, if you don't know what those are look them up they are amazing and very rare.
I did get to enjoy some tea with a cold brewing method (tossing some tea into a water bottle then hiking for 2 hours then finally drinking it) but alas I have no photos of the rain forest because my camera died from all the water(even in a wet dry bag). Luckily I didn't take my nice camera. They never told me there wasn't such a thing as water protection in the Amazon.

Needless to say there will be many more posts now that I am back with a ton of new tea ware and tea!
I am excited to start trying everything out.
Also I have plans to start making so tea related things( Balance, Tray, and some cups)