Pretty much all I know about this tea cake is it was bought from Sampletea.com (link) and shipped from Malaysia. As much as I love the product range and service Sampletea provides, it would be nice to get to know this tea cake a bit better.
The fragrance of the dry leaves is woody, mature, bold and spicy. Fine big leaves with a lot of tips.
The infusion has a nice clear and dark color. However, the aroma is not as semiaged-fruity, as I would have expected. There is a strong tippy scent here, that is to say the wheaty aroma often found in white tea.
The taste seems closed and a bit dissappointing at first. But slowly a perky but not too astrigent bitternes comes through, and gives the taste a certain citrusy character. The tippy white tea flavor is also there, and with subsequent brews some fruity notes develop as well.
This was the first banzhang I have ever tasted. It was interesting and nice, but the white tea taste was a bit distracting for me.
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