This was a pretty mediocre tea. It’s one of those dark oolongs that tastes more like a black tea than an oolong which isn’t necessarily bad if the flavor is there. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case here. It started off with with roasty, malty, tobacco-like flavors. On the nose I got notes of resin and sweet potato. The next steep tasted like an dry pile of leaves. On the third steeping, there’s tobacco, a mushroomy earthiness, and a shou puerh like flavor. The last steep tasted like a generic black tea. I stopped here because I couldn’t stomach any more of it.
Overall, I was bored by this tea. It had little to no aroma, no sweetness, and lacked the warm toasty goodness of a normal baked Taiwanese oolong. Fans of heavier oxidized tea might like it, but I’ll take a humble dong ding over this any day.
Flavors: Autumn Leaf Pile, Malt, Resin, Tobacco, Yams
