Bros,
The tea has finally arrived. Please let me know when you can collect. I tasted a bit this afternoon. Taste old indeed. :)
Alrite! Can't wait to try..
Plse post yr tasting comments to share....
Smooth, sweet and gentle. Slow arriving but powerful cha qi comes from within the body. Warms up the body and perspiration starts. Some will get headache. Simply awesome. :)
Last nite I tried the tea, using 4g for a 100ml gaiwan, following seb's method of quick, though I think my 'quick' is still seb's 'slow'...
1st brew: water was sweet & smooth, not much taste of tea, drank the tea slowly and felt the tea coursing down to the stomach. Warmth appeared somewhere near the diaphragm and stayed there, fuzzy. The aftertaste in the mouth was a good one, though not flavour, but could feel the presence of the tea, something sweet, something metallic, that teased the saliva glands under the tongue.
2nd brew: water carried more taste of tea this time, the warmth spread; sideways to the arms, up along the spine to the base of the skull, and down to the end of the spine. There was a slight throbbing sensation, and I think I know why some people had a headache reaction - because they drank it too quickly. This tea should be drank slowly.
3rd~8th brews were generally similar to 2nd, so I'm not going to waste space here... :")
Kev, You are spot on. This is a very interesting tea indeed. The way the warm spreads in the body is really weird. Shiok lah. :)