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64
drank Love Goddess by Dragon Tea House
1629 tasting notes

Delicious! This order came too late for my best friend’s bridal shower. I decided to keep all of them. I smelled Jasmine immediately. I know I might have a reaction to this so I took an extra allergy med. >_< Yummy and light! The flower is beautiful. I love watching it unfurl.

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86

After a couple of days of aclimatizing I started another session with this tea and the change is astounding. Now its more flowery on the nose, more buttery in the mouth with a nice sweet huigan as a perfect finish. Now its a lot less vegetal and more balanced. Brewing conditions are similar to the last one but I used less leaf and perhaps slightly cooler water.

Preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 0 min, 30 sec
teaddict

I’ve just thought of air as the enemy of the light floral green oolongs like this one, but you’re saying it improved between sessions. How did you let it acclimate? or do you think it might have just been the luck of the brewing?

argus

I think it suffered from the trip from china and I brewed it as soon as I got it. I kept it in my usual airtight tins so no air involved in the process. Also, after brewing it this weekend I think the main problem in my first session was in leaf quantity, more precisely, too much leaf that didn’t let the tea breathe in the gaiwan

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86

brew vessel: 120 ml gaiwan / water: Brita filtered / tea quantity: covering the bottom of gaiwan

Wet leaf gives off a cornmeal aroma intermingled with green beans. All single leaf, small to medium sized. no stems.
Liquor is somewhat thin, lovely yellow/pale green color. Tea is really veggie heavy (green bean, corn, spinach) in every brew with a tad of mintiness on the back palate. The thing is, it lacks something to make it a well rounded tea. After enjoying 6 infusions I have a feeling something is missing and that nags me throughout the session.

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 0 min, 15 sec

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84

Score of 84. 2nd steep is stronger, with a starchy sweet aftertaste. Review #272 on Walker Tea Review

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92

One of the absolute best Da Hong Pao’s I’ve had.

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100

A very enjoyable high quality ripe puerh cake with a more mellow and mild taste than the previous Mengku ripe puerh that I’ve had. The brew has a thick and smooth texture with an overall very mellow taste with wood flavor notes and maybe a touch of smoke, with a good balance of sweetness that is not overwhelming.

Preparation
Boiling 0 min, 30 sec

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85

This is one of the more unique Wuyi teas that I’ve yet to have had. It has a light to medium roast which is hard to distinguish as the taste of the roast blends so well into the overall base mellow sweetness of the tea itself which has a very wonderful taste that I do not know how to put into words.

Preparation
Boiling 0 min, 45 sec

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87

Prepared in a huge glass gaiwan so I could see the leaves swirl. So pretty. At first I was getting blah washwater brews because I was so afraid of scorching the leaves that I used lower temperatures. But using water near 190F actually tastes a lot better. Yum.
Leaving the ‘root’, I was able to get two more infusions.

Must try it chilled some time. I’m quite happy with this. Of course, I can’t compare it to the more expensive Nonpareil grade, but to my untrained palate this mid-level Superfine tastes pretty good. (and quite a lot better than my sampler from Adagio. Good thing I didn’t give up on Dragonwell so soon.)

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 3 min, 0 sec

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67
drank Milk Oolong by Dragon Tea House
2 tasting notes

A light and slightly sweet tea with a hint of milk in its aroma. A pleasant (all day) everyday tea.

Handles over-steeping well without becoming bitter.

Preparation
160 °F / 71 °C 2 min, 0 sec

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