One of the sweetest, most welcoming Shou Puerhs I have had thus far, I admit to being highly bummed out when after my sample was at its end, not finding it for sale on Jalam Tea's website. This is a tea I would like to have a good supply of, and it looks like perhaps I will not get that opportunity.
For some reason I brewed this differently than other shous I've had and used 5 grams in my Yixing pot with the water temp at a relativity low 206f. This may be the cause of its mellow, sweet profile, its vanilla, chocolate, mossy goodness. All I can say in my defense for of not brewing it at just under boiling, is that the tea itself, dry leaves held to my nose told me what to do. It just did.
To my credit I will be brewing the next few steeps at 209f, so keep your hats on, I'm not deviating too much or for too long on this low-temp experiment. I only have a chunk of this left and will be very careful about when I try it again. Perhaps while in the company of a tea notable, like local friend Andrew Harto.
This is a lightly packed tea, and was easy, and quite fun to gently break apart whole leaf pieces from the hunk in the sample bag. What you see here is what I am left with.
I think I will treasure this little hunk of tea and remember it for a long time.
Me love you long time, Mr. Nannuo! Please come back and see me again?