Jookro Jiri Mountain Yellow Tea

Jookro is an old tea company with a good reputation for producing good tea. Although they produce a lot of tea, it is all produced by hand from bushes that grow wild in the valleys of Jiri mountain.

Let's warm our hands upon the hot air of the brazier and sit down for Jookro's yellow tea...

The dry leaves are small and fairly uniform dark brown. They smell fresh, sunny, almost minty, behind roasted but not smoky tones.

These leaves are placed in a pot, the same pot one has used for years now. The boiling water from the brazier is added and the liquid of tea is born.

As we sip in silence the flavor of this tea speaks to us. It has a sweet, full bodied citrus taste with a juicy mouthfeel and subtle long nutty aftertaste. It's like biting into a sweet lime with sweet and sour in perfect balance, walking together hand in hand. It's taste is also deliciously chocolately, the bitter dark chocolate one is quite fond of.

The liqour is a bright, happy orangy yellow leaning more towards yellow than most oxidized tea from Korea. It also almost lacks a real roasted taste, although it is detectable in later infusions it tastes so different than most others. It contains a different kind of 'yellow tea roast' maybe due to special processing one is not aware of.

The chaqi in this tea is warming and sunny, it is mostly felt in the upper torso, the heart, and in the lungs. This teas energy is the uplifting type as its energy ascends.

The mouthfeel of this tea is less pronounced it lacks any throatiness as it doesn't seem to travel past the back of the throat, but what is in the throat feels quite natural. Astringency comes quite late with this quality tea, only later infusions dry the roof of the mouth.

With later infusions also comes the typical nutty-roasted taste that seems to characterize Korean yellow teas. What's really nice about this tea is that the flavor really evolves through infusions and the stamina of the leaves allows it to go though many, a tell tale sign of a good tea.

And as we finish our last sips from the liquor of spend leaves, in silence we give thanks.

Peace

Edit: Here is a picture of the box that one intended to include in the inital post.

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