Pure Ancient Trees – Tier 5

e Qi is soothing and relaxing and before you know it time has flown by. Truly a favourite!
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mas out of the bowl with a touch of camphor and moss resolving to peachy/ pandan sweetness and a vein of freshness that adds a mouthwatering kick. As the session progresses an underlying firmness from the polyphenols builds up, offset with a nice thickness to the soup. I imagine there’s room for this to develop further over the next few years, and accordingly I’m going to tuck it away for some time. Lovely semi-mature tea, seemingly from natural storage, that feels like there’ll be a few more layers to reveal in time, and that’s already aromatically very expressive. Good value.
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hly recommend, looking forward to getting more soon.
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Still young sheng but already with an amazing texture and oily bubbles in the cup till the end.
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easonably priced and I recommend it.
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ingency are low and there is still lots of life left in this tea! Very little smokiness and very smooth.
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ompanied by musty storage notes. The silver lining in my experience has been a deep, centering qi. Imho as other CYH teas from this era have done this tea for me exemplifies what teas from this area can be…however it is still an acquired taste and it took several sessions for me to understand this tea. Firstly, like many other CYH teas, this one benefits from flash steeping early steeps. The early steeps are unsurprisingly woody. My dad likened the character to the smell of sitting under a willow tree after a thunderstorm. Yep. Also, the soup is thick but not particularly sweet. The qi is pretty immediate and powerful yet refined. If Banzhang qi is a canon, this qi is a silk hammer. After about 6 steeps I start to push the tea a bit longer and sweetness emerges and the woodiness gives way to notes of cherry, not actual cherry but like the cherry esters one finds in particular English Olde Ales. In fact other than it’s relative dryness this tea reminds me of certain vintages of Fullers Vintage Ale…sorry I’m from the Michael Jackson school of beer nerds and although I no longer drink beer I will likely always find a comparison between certain beers and puerh tea as there are so many parallels, probably related to the byproducts created by the fermentation process, the oils contained both in the camellia and hops and the malty character inherent in many teas. Sorry for the long review. The shorter version is if you like woody teas this is a must try. If you dislike strong woodiness and prefer florals , skip this one and try the Yiwu blend.
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