Smacha Tea's Jing Mai Old Tree Puerh 2011 will 'getcha. It will make your tea pets practically jump out of their little clay skins to get bathed in it. It will tell you to do bad things, and you just might.
Or, alternatively, it will just talk to you, in an 'outside-voice' for sure, about its rich chocolate subtlety, it will fill your quiet kitchen with shouts no one but you and the tea can hear, and it's the tea talkin' and it's saying, "You like that, don't you? Well, and so you should! You're a relatively intelligent gal with a blossoming palate, you should just keep it up, ol' gal, drink! Drink! Drink!" (And it has a Dallas accent. How did that happen?)
In any case, many, many good things come from Smacha Tea company out of Bellevue, Washington and this tea is sure 'nuff one of them. Subtle, it ain't, but after a days worth of fresh, super young Puerhs who thrilled me with their giggling, whispered chatter of sunshine filtered through tall trees and leisurely hikes through clear, neat pathways, this is just the tickety-ticket!
Dark, rich boisterous. And all mine.