Puerh Update: Bada Peacock
Kunming TF’s Bada Peacock is rounding into form. Thought you might like to know. It has nice sweetness and serious durability. In previous sessions the Puerh Junky had noted some coppery attributes but these were not noticeable in yesterday’s session. Could it be the gaiwan? Time to put it to the test with the workhorse pot.
Not exactly my workhorse pot but quite similar
Dry in the the pot the Bada Peacock smells sweet and camphory. It’s hard to place the sweetness. . . sugar, honey? The finish on the sweetness in the taste is definitely sugary. The camphor does not influence the taste of the broth but does make its presence known in the huigan for a brief interlude before the theme of sugary slickness and vanilla take over.
If this puerh had another name at this phase it would be Vienna Fingers. That cookie, at least the old-school version, was the bees knees, sweet yet understated. There are some understated notes that stand out in the huigan long after most all the others fade. I’ve caught wind that a few have been committed to psychiatric hospitals trying to figure out exactly what those notes are. I even heard that in a weird time warp twist that could only be attributed to the Mandela effect that Phil Collins had originally written the song as Bada and only changed it to Mama upon the pleading of his producers. Take a listen and see if you don’t hear him really saying Bada, particularly at the evil cackle part.
Let’s leave ole Phil to his own devices and pick up at the sixth infusion where a bit of grapefruit seed bitterness along with some throatiness emerges. It maintains a noteworthy thickness. The minerality picks up too. The light taste of pennies and grapefruit characterizes the huigan, along with sweetness and coppery astringency.
The sweet grapefruit taste gains steam in the next couple infusions. Vienna Fingers become but a memory as evocations of a creatively named ’04 Yiwu Arbor from the Gratitude TF in the stash and the ’12 Dragon, CMS come to mind. The copper notes never express as in yore, whereas the grapefruit seems entirely new.
The Bada Peacock doesn’t fall into either the Tobacco or Floral classes of raw puerh, so that makes it a Zen Class creation by default, unless we’re talking Fruity. Zen seems about right, though fruity is a possibility. Zen is a greater possibility, however, as there’s no fruit sensation with the the Bada, only sweetness.
