Ruan Zhi ’24w

Name: Ruan Zhi
Year: 2024 winter
Variety: Ruan Zhi (No.17 oolong)
Weight: loose in zip bags, a vacuum pack from 20 grams
Whereabout: Myanmar (Burma), Shan state, Möng Tum

Once you discover the magic of this tea you would praise it to the heaven. This is my second time included in the offer of pu-erh.sk this tea. This tea is subtle and at the same rich, a lot of depth an purity at its top. The great oolong afteraste is left and keep on in the cheek part of the mouth. A light Cha Qi tingling on edges of the tongue, very rare with such oolongs. Sweetness is so apparent and vibrating that is like a dream oolong.

All these goodies lead me to include also its baked ‘brother’ which is called Hong Oolong.

I thought to make notes on each type of cup I used for each steep. It is interesting that the two porcelain cup painted by Wen Chiao Lin have difference in final taste and arome, of course the second is tall, sniffing like cup that was designed to be used also for drinking.

Porcelain1: Wen Chiao Lin painted ‘standard shaped’ teacup
Porcelain2: Wen Chiao Lin painted tall teacup
Jiri Duchek: Kuan ‘snowwhite’ teacup

1. steep
Porcelain1: smooth, fresh and green, sweet
Porcelain2: with depth and rich aromas hits the nostrils, japanesse green tea feel
Kuan Ducheks: pure and clean, velvety, silky, early small sweet peas

2. steep
Porcelain1: green veggie notes
Porcelain2: as the cup1 but with more pronounced/enhanced notes
Kuan Ducheks: smooth and rounded,

3. steep
Porcelain1: mountain stream water feel
Porcelain2: flavour are more full and rich
Kuan Ducheks: missed this round 🙂

4. steep
Porcelain1: taste like high mountain taiwan oolong
Porcelain2: a very pure green oolong feel
Kuan Ducheks: the feel is so carresing as it could be only umami note is left

5. steep
Porcelain1: pristine rain forest feel at its highest purity
Porcelain2: classical oolong bitter nutty notes with green flavour finish
Kuan Ducheks: dreamy, flighing light with suggary coating

this tea goes on for several futher steep and I think these notes are enough to be an appetizer

this tea in fact comes from Myanmar (formerly Burma) and it is grown and made by Wa/Wazi ethnic group,  it is made by a friend of Veian from Thailand who introduced this tea to me, more notes and story added later…