Dragon Tea House

i hope this is the right tea, the label was a tad damaged

a great tea!

when i smell the leaves dry, they smell musty and fruity.

when i smell the leaves wet, they smell fruity.

when i smell the brewed tea, i smell fruityness, honey and no spices.

when i taste the brewed tea, i taste honey and fruityness and a small amount of spice..

the color of the brewed tea is a golden color.

i rate this a 90 because it is similar to the other tea i recieved from kittylovestea

many thanks to my friend from “across the pond” you the British would say. ;)

Opened new bag and had beautiful experience. I was so disappointed with a previous brand, so this was very pleasant. I used my cute Yixing frog on lotus pot and brewed gong fu style. Leaves unfurled beautifully. Lovely sweet finish. I did four steeps but could probably done more.

This is a really good (in my opinion) sheng.

I use to drink shou because I hate bitterness and strong smokey flavour, but this one is the opposite to all this.

It’s smooth, with no bitterness (5sec and rinse, 15sec with 3.8gr of leaves).

I can find a floral taste and something like peaches in the first brew. I’ll keep you updated to see how it develop in following brews.

What I don’t like about this tea is the price, 7.50€ for 50gr is quite expensive.

This is a sweet bai mu dan, 0 bitterness, not floral flavour. Low body.

Is a good deal for the price.

As I have read that the best way to brew this kind of tea is boiling water and flash steps that’s what i’ve done.

The color is quite dark, like many black teas.

It tastes sweet, smooth. I can’t find that famous honey taste but i like this tea more than bai mu dan (and I really like bai mu dan). I only find a really soft astringent aftertaste after 4 steps.

Is a good deal for the price.

This is a very tasty tea for a bargain price, around $10 for 100g or so. It has notes of malt and chocolate and has a nice sweetness to it. This may be the best of my three black teas from Dragon Tea House. This is a highly enjoyable tea.

I brewed this one time in a Teavana Glass Perfect Tea Maker/Gravity Steeper with 3 tsp leaf and boiling water for 3 min.

This tea is fairly tasty but not by any means incredible. It’s got a note of malt and a sweet note behind the malt that I have failed to identify. It is getting better as it cools a bit. The price for this tea was right, under $15 for 100g. It was neither incredibly cheap or overly expensive. As usual, Dragon Tea House has sold a good quality product but not something incredible. I had hoped for something even better than this.

I steeped this one time in a 16oz Teavana Glass Perfect Tea Maker/Gravity Steeper with 3 tsp leaf and 200 degree water for 3 min.

This tea is good but not as good as some of the Yunnan Teas I recently got from Yunnan Sourcing. It has strong notes of malt and chocolate and a lesser note of spice. That one surprised me. I bought this and two other black teas from Dragon Tea House just recently. We will see how they are. I expect a certain level of quality from Dragon Tea House and this one meets it, but just barely. It is good I don’t dislike this tea because I went out on a limb and bought 250g.

I brewed this one time in a 16oz Teavana Glass Perfect Tea Maker/Gravity Steeper with 3 tsp leaf and 200 degree water for 3 min. I think this tea might be better with 190 degree water and a 2 minute steep and I shall try that next time.

Trying this tea I got from Dragon Tea House a few weeks ago. It’s been ages since I had a sheng, but I’m in that kind of mood this morning. :) I know these are not top of the line teas in terms of sheng but I usually like them anyway.

This smelled very smoky after I took the wrapper off. I decided to do some steeps in my xiying teapot. After a quick rinse, I found steep #1 was very strong and aggressive. A typical Xiaguan young sheng. Definitely has a lot of smoke and a bitter finish.

Steep #2 – I did for 5 seconds at the most. I think less is definitely more for this one. Also I am using water that is below the boiling point, at about 180 degrees. The shorter steeping time did help a bit on the aggression but this is still strong, smoky and somewhat brothlike.

Steep #3 – smokiness is subsiding somewhat. Still a bittersweet finish with bitter fading a bit

Steep #4 – this is finally being a little more palatable, ha. Getting less bitter and some apricot and floral notes are starting to emerge. Still a hint of smoke in the finish.

Verdict: this seems to me a typical Xiaguan. I wouldn’t say the purple tea has made much of a difference to my palette. OK to drink now but will really benefit from a few more years of aging to balance this sucker out. I am not sure how to rate this but I have enjoyed it. Not recommended if you have a dislike for smoky teas.

This is in my opinion an artificial milk flavour. It’s too strong and ‘too milky’.

This is one of my favourite green teas. Really soft, grassy, floral and sweet aftertaste, with no bitterness.

I brew it western style.

This is not a bad tea, but I find it with less flavour or at least softer than the dian hong. Is malty and it has some sweet afetertaste but is too soft for me.

This is a not a very special shou. In my opinion there are better options for this price.

I brew it western style with boiling water and I found it smooth, malty and perhaps with a little cocoa touch. Is not bitter but isn’t also sweet. I don’t know how to describe it well.

I step it western style in my porcelain gaiwan. It has a floral and sweet taste with no bitterness and also not too grassy.

A really good choice.

One of my favourites black teas for every morning. Not expensive and it has a coca and malty flavour with no bitterness.

This is the best silver needle I have ever tasted. Is sweet, smooth and grassy/floral.

A really good tea.

PS: no bitter

This is not really a winner in my opinion. I was suckered in by the cute packaging and thinking these loose leaf puerh packets would be good for travel. I have been done a few short steeps (of around 10 seconds) in my yixing teapot. I am finding the fermentation flavor to be too strong in this. Yes the dreaded fishy flavor that we all hate in puerh, it smells funky too. After the third steep I decided to water it down some and that made it sort of palatable but it also seems bitter to me. It’s sad but life is too short to be drinking yucky tea. I will contact Dragon Tea house to see about getting a refund.

Purchased this tea with my last Dragon Tea House order that came in a few weeks ago, but am just getting around to reviewing it now. I’ve tried steeping it Western style and also in the gaiwan (this morning).

The only other bohea tea I’ve had is Upton’s version. This is a lot lighter in body than I remember the UT version being. It does have flavor notes similar to a dark roasted oolong like a wuyi. I’m getting roasty grain notes, along with a fruity flavor like plums and yes, a citrus. I can see why they liken this to bergamot but thankfully it doesn’t have the overpowering obnoxious smell of bergamot ;) Finish is sweet on the palette without a loot of bitterness.

I can really see drinking this as a late morning or early afternoon tea. This would be a decent one for the office too as it needs no cream or sugar. (I like simple when I am at work).

Overall I think this is “ok” but I’m not really thrilled by it. I feel like I have a lot of teas already that fit this flavor profile. I know this isn’t a puerh but maybe it will develop a bit more complexity with some age behind it? hmmm.

Thank you Liquid Proust for this sample!

Tasting #1 – Steep Time 2 Minutes
Light in color and light in flavor. Hardly anything to get excited about.

Tasting #2 – Steep Time 4 Minutes
The flavors and and colors are slightly more noticeable. Light roasted qualities are lingering on my tongue.

Tasting #3 – Steep Time 6 Minutes
Roasted flavors are becoming more prominent, but it just doesn’t taste finished. Its not even or unique, its just generic. Its not bad tea, but at this point in my tea drinking life, I demand more from my tea drinking experience.

Bought this tea from Dragon Tea House a while ago and am just now getting around to trying it. It is pretty good. There was a fair amount of fermentation flavor in the early steeps. It was what you could describe as thick and creamy too. It was sweet in nature. I was not paying close enough attention to it to say there were chocolate notes but that is possible. It did develop a fruity flavor in later steeps. Unfortunately Dragon Tea House must have sold out of this, it is no longer on their site. In fact I had to take my own picture for the catalog on this one.

I steeped this ten times in a 120ml gaiwan with 8.5g leaf and boiling water. I gave it a 10 second rinse and a 10 minute rest. I steeped it for 5 sec, 5 sec, 7 sec, 10 sec, 15 sec, 20 sec, 25 sec, 30 sec, 45 sec, and 1 min. If I wanted to continue I’m sure I could have gotten a few more steeps out of the tea.