Fengqing Zhuan Cha Raw Puerh Brick 2005

Not sure that we bought this Tea for our self,quite sure it was a gift tea from somebody tho unfortunately We forget who from.
We do know that it is from Teavivre.com  here
it is out of stock now so we consider ourselves lucky to have it.
I'm not qualified to review a tea like this but I'll try Raw Puerh is not my thing really but i've been staring at this one for a long time and I figure OK I'll give it a try.
Not much aroma to the dry brick in the bag tho it does have a slight sweet smell to it, the Wet aroma tho is strong and smell like a bitter vegetal green tea to me.
It brewed up a kinda dark amber color, pretty to look at.

1 steep= It is"juicy" for the most part and only slightly astringent after the swallow, kinda taste of hay and a bit sweet, vegetal but kinda fruity too, weird. kinda spicey/peppery aftertaste.
2nd steep= Still juicy kinda sweet and hay notes, earthy with wet woody kinda spicey note, almost unpleasant but not quite,  vegetal and still strangely fruity at the same time, Weird!
3 steep= The water had cooled a bit and that made a huge difference, it was yummy good, juicy and kinda sweet slightly fruity, no astringent or bitter at all, kinda woody earthy still, very smooth, the vegetal note was gone but still had a haylike taste maybe even a honeylike sweetness, really good :)
4 steep= Hotter water but we let the tea cool a bit, Wow very good! Wood, earth, hay, honey, malt? Spicey/peppery, no bitter or astringent very smooth, very nice.
5 steep= Cooler water again, its juicy and kinda fruity again, hay notes and honey sweet notes But it got weak all of a sudden as if it is almost ready to steep out. cooler water seems to make it fruity almost Peachy while hotter water seems to make it kinda spicey/peppery.

I decided to just go ahead and stop there at 5 steeps, I have a Whole Brick so we can try it again whenever we want.
Maybe next time I'll go with a more consistent and slightly cooler water temp, we can play around with this tea a lot and I'm sure it will be very good, it's Not Bad at all...We might even say it is Complex...
Overall it was kinda smooth with No bitter at all but it did have a slight astringent after bite to me, not in a bad way tho, what we like to call a "pleasant astringency". Decent tea, We just need to spend more time with it I think.

-Eddie & Roger-