A blog about tea.
Category: Oolong Tea
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2018 Winter Duck Shit Aroma Dan Cong Tea Tasting (The Tea Guru)
The Tea Guru’s 2018 Winter Duck Shit Aroma Dan Cong is a really light tea. If you pay attention, you’re rewarded with a soft fruitiness and subtle honey.
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Taiwanese GABA Grape Oolong Tea Tasting (Tea Joint)
Tea Joint’s Taiwanese GABA Grape Oolong has flavours that like to play hide and seek. Roasted cherries and fresh appels take turns in showing themselves.
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Wuyi Yancha Tieluohan Tea Tasting (ANMO)
ANMO’s Wuyi Yancha Tieluohan is a creamy and sweet Zhengyan Cha. At some point, it was almost like eating strawberry ice cream.
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Aged Tie Guan Yin Tea Session
Verdant Tea offers several aged tie guan yin teas. I teamed up with a friend to compare what ageing does to tea and we tasted six versions of the same tea.
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Wu Dong Mi Lan Xiang Tea Tasting (Wudong Tea)
Wu Dong Mi Lan Xiang is a tea that combines bitterness and sweetness. The flavours change from bitter in the beginning to an exotic sweetness at the end.
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Songboling Roasted Jin Xuan Gui Fei Tea Tasting (Thetea.pl)
Thetea.pl’s Songboling Roasted Jin Xuan Gui Fei is a tea that just rolls down your throat. Flavours of roasted and buttery honey with a sweetness in the finish.
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Old Master Dong Ding Tea Tasting (Mountain Stream Teas)
Mountain Stream Teas’ Old Master Dong Ding is a tea that offers different flavours each infusion. Roasted honey, subtle caramel and a fruity sweetness.
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26 Hour Roast Milan Maocha Tea Tasting (white2tea)
The 26 Hour Roast Milan Maocha from white2tea’s March 2019 tea club is deep. Warm honey in combination with a fruity and floral sweetness.
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2018 Red Water Oolong (The Tea Guru)
The 2018 Red Water Oolong from The Tea Guru is a highly oxidised tea from Taiwan. It combines buttery maltiness and sweetness with floral notes in between.
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Wen Shan Bao Zhong Tea Tasting (Curious Tea)
Wen Shan Bao Zhong is a green oolong tea from Taiwan. It’s a crossbreed between a fresh green and a floral oolong as it offers the best of both worlds.
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Lu Yan Xiang Tea Tasting (Wudong Tea)
Lu Yan Xiang or magnolia flower fragrance is a Dan Cong oolong tea from Chaozhou Province. The buttery magnolias will take you to faraway flower gardens.
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Makinohara Benifuki Oolong Tea Tasting (Curious Tea)
The Makinohara Benifuki oolong is a tea that is unlike any other oolong tea I have drunk before. It’s a green oolong with a vegetal flavour profile in combination with floral notes.
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Zhang Ping Shui Xian Floral Tea Tasting (Curious Tea)
I tasted the Zhang Ping Shui Xian Floral, which is an unusual oolong tea that was pressed into small bricks and I was pleasantly surprised by the combination of floral sweetness and honey.
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Darjeeling Gopaldhara Maharaja Tea Tasting (Curious Tea)
A second Flush Darjeeling oolong tea that tastes like a black tea with a slice of lemon. Darjeeling Gopaldhara Maharaja is an interesting tea that offers a combination of pleasant flavours.
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Santikhiri Four Seasons Oolong Tea Tasting (Curious Tea)
Tasting session of a high mountain oolong tea from Thailand. The Santikhiri Four Seasons Oolong proved to be a complex floral tea with green notes to it.