Sweet camphor and petrichor. Explosive camphor top-note aroma, underneath cocoa and minerality. Brown sugar sweetness, good intensity. Camphor, oud, minerals, cocoa, complex. Full, rich mouthfeel. Very slight sourness and astringency at tongue’s edges complimenting density. Camphor-to-mineral continuum exceptional. High note and and medicinal camphor. Best brewing stacked infusions so sweetness maintains strong presence throughout. Moderate compression. Macau natural humid storage. Xinghai processed, commissioned by Macanese vendor. Latest acquisition in May ’22.
Meistra Zhang Jian-li, founder of Xinghai TF not only hails from the Menghai TF lineage but is also one of Menghai’s Five Golden Flowers. Xinghai reliably continued the Menghai TF tradition of ripe fermentation such that it became the go-to factory after Menghai/Day stopped processing puerhs famous boutiques after being bought by a group in 2004. At the same time, Xinghai worked to develop its own fermentation signature. All told, Xinghai gained an unquestioned reputation for crafting outstanding ripes, particularly in the areas of sweetness, mouthfeel, consistency, and innovation.
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