Tasting
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'Throat-rhyme' — the sensation of the tea's finish descending and lingering in the throat.
A treasured marker of high-mountain Wuyi oolongs and aged pu-erh. The throat is left feeling cool, open, slightly perfumed. A tea with hou yun is said to 'go deep'; a tea without it stops at the tongue.
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