This is one of the two shengs i bought when i was branching out my tea selection into raw puerhs. as described in an earlier teapost, sheng or raw puerh is kill-greened and then essentially steamed and packed into a cake for storage and aging right then and there. the result is of course a much slower and more gradual aging process, so the stuff that i'm drinking here is still very vivacious.
tasting notes here are interesting. you get a lot of green and leafy, which is honestly not what i get out of tea of any type by and large. you get a lot of planty flavors of course from the full range of teas but you're usually running into vegetal or grassy and sometimes hay flavors rather than the outright Leaf Taste. it's very interesting and i don't get it from any other tea in my collection, including the other sheng i have which is much more tobacco-y in nature.
aside from the leafiness there's a hint of sourness and drying thickness in the mouthfeel that i associate with that one specific highly acidic type of orange juice. it's the cheap stuff, you know the one probably. think of the type of orange juice that they use in e.g. orangina and san pellegrino aranciata. the rest of the orange juice flavor isn't there of course, but i love that type of orange juice so it's hitting right for me here as well.
one of the things i really like about this tea, and i suspect this is a direct result of how lightly it's treated, is that it's a very energetic tea after the cup. i have gone on record saying that this tea makes me ready to fight god. you too can become ready to fight god with a tea such as this.
