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“Wow. Seriously, wow. This is sweet. Really sweet. It tastes a bit like eating honeysuckle nectar and chasing it with a bite of thin, newly-sprouted branch. The woody branch bit is fairly...” Read full tasting note
“Smooth, a bit floral, almost to the point of breaking the smoothness. Long aftertaste with hints of the floral notes.” Read full tasting note
“I freaked out a little when I put this in the gaiwan because it seemed to be full of saffron-yellow powder. Then I realized, those were osmanthus flowers. They look like the pictures of osmanthus...” Read full tasting note
From the Wuyi Mountains of China, this Oolong tea is complex and full-bodied. Naturally sweet, it has flirty undertones with a long, smooth finish. Good for multiple infusions.
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Wow. Seriously, wow. This is sweet. Really sweet. It tastes a bit like eating honeysuckle nectar and chasing it with a bite of thin, newly-sprouted branch. The woody branch bit is fairly similar to the woody/reedy taste from last night’s ginseng oolong. So branch plus the honeysuckle is what I’m guessing Osmanthus tastes like? Anyway, the sweet, light honeysuckle taste is a bit contrary to the green branch taste but at the same time the branch taste grounds the sweetness, keeping it from being too extreme.
The second steep (3:00) has the flavors meshing better so it taste more like a darker floral taste and not quite as sweet. It doesn’t taste anything like rose, but for some reason that’s the comparison that now pops in my mind.
Anyway, I think I prefer last night’s ginseng oolong over this one, but just by a hair or two.
3.6g/7oz
I freaked out a little when I put this in the gaiwan because it seemed to be full of saffron-yellow powder.
Then I realized, those were osmanthus flowers. They look like the pictures of osmanthus flowers on the internet, anyway. I hope that’s what they are and not something that shouldn’t be there.
In the tin, the tea doesn’t smell much different from the usual green oolong smell. Mostly just a grassy smell with a light floral note.
Gaiwan. 195F. Rinse. 15 seconds plus 5 for each additional steep.
The tea is pale yellow, clear, and smells a little vegetal and somewhat floral. Nothing distinctive about either, to the point where a particular vegetable or flower jumped out and announced itself. It tastes the way it smells. It doesn’t have either of the things that make me love green oolongs — the butteriness or the juicy floral.
I didn’t notice much of a change through four steeps. I got none of the overt sweetness Auggy mentioned, and frankly, I felt like this was missing something.
It was supremely average. It will be going into the cold brew queue.
Flavors: Floral, Green, Vegetal
Wow, this sounds so good.