2009 XZH Pasha
5.6g/90ml Yixing, Toronto filtered tap water.
Fairly tippy, leading to a quite bright taste, with a chalky astringency that coats the front of mouth and lips. Higher compression than average for Xizihao, and the processing is a little on the green side, which is much better than the often over-oxidised processing one gets with XZH. Despite the age, this tea reminds me of a young Jingmai. Single origin profile, quite narrow. Not bitter, not overly astringent, not sweet or savoury. More herbal. Quite alerting, a bit cooling with long lasting front of mouth drying. Material is decent, leaves don’t decompose under light pressure. This tea avoids many of the pitfalls I usually find with XZH. 5.4.
February 12, 2025 @ 10:50 am
There is 250 400g cake and brick of 250g for this. I dont know which you are reffereing to..
February 12, 2025 @ 12:03 pm
So I suppose you are asking me which one it is? It’s the 400g cake 🙂