Wuyi Ensemble

Tea type
Oolong Tea
Ingredients
Oolong Tea
Flavors
Apricot, Caramel, Floral, Mineral, Cinnamon, Dark Chocolate, Fruity, Roasted, Earth, Grapes, Peppercorn, Wood, Rice, Ash, Char, Grass
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Bulk, Loose Leaf, Tea Bag
Caffeine
Medium
Certification
Not available
Edit tea info Last updated by JulieWyant
Average preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 3 min, 30 sec 2 g 41 oz / 1214 ml

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  • “This is for the sachet version of this tea, two people sent me one each and now I don’t even know who! After trying a red robe oolong and absolutely hating all that was going on with it, I don’t...” Read full tasting note
  • “I’ve been on a black tea kick as of late, so I thought I’ve give one of my past favorite oolongs a try. I still like it, but after getting caught up in office mumbo jumbo, my cup was cold and...” Read full tasting note
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  • “This one courtesy of Tea Sipper’s traveling tea box!! I love dark oolongs, which makes it mysterious as to why it’s taken me weeks (months?) to try this! Picture me slapping my own hand! The first...” Read full tasting note
  • “Dry Smell: Plum, Sugar, Milk Chocolate, and a hint of Smokieness. Wet Smell: Vegetable and Mineral. Tastes just how the wet leaves smelled. It was nice and I shared a bit of it with a friend and...” Read full tasting note
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From Adagio Teas

Wuyi Ensemble, known as Da Hong Pao or Wuyi rock tea, is a roasted oolong tea from the Wuyi mountains in Fujian province, China. The high fire treatment gives Wuyi oolong its specific smoky and minerally character. This is a beautifully balanced and complex tea with a deep, yet faint, ripe fruitiness in the background. The flavor is slightly honey-floral and nutty, with hints of white sesame, cinnamon, and sweetened burdock root. There is a lingering sweet caramel aftertaste due to the high fire roasting technique. Wuyi Ensemble oolong is warming and satisfying. Being a good digestive tea it goes well with food or sweets. It is perfect for multiple infusions so you can tease out many layers of intriguing flavor.

Up among the Wuyi Mountains, blanketed with eternal clouds, there grows a tea along the jagged peaks despite the gaps where no roots seem welcomed. Absorbing the mineral rock taste, the tea is dried in the sun and finished by baking to become an elixir of great complexity, at once sweet like honeyed peaches, soft like vegetables roasted to caramelization, yet with a finish of minerality, of stone. A tribute-level oolong of unsurpassed depth, Wuyi Ensemble is an oolong to reckon with, to hoard for special guests, or to greet the dawn of day, brewed just for you.

Oolong Tea | Moderate caffeine | Steep at 195° for 3-5 minutes.

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First sip on first cup: hint of strong sweet rapidly followed by heavy wheat earthy notes. The sweet note won’t appear again until you take a break from drinking it. I found this to be surprising. The grain/earth is persistent and strong. Almost overbearing but stops just short.

It is a typical oolong experience. Enjoying it as an evening tea

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 5 min, 30 sec

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Great soothing tea. Smoky, earthy, nutty flavors. Has the effect on the missus and I of inducing a coma-like sleep. Best drank with a spot of honey.

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A tea with a nice earthy smell to it, sort of similar to grass, but an easy smooth taste going down.

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