Laoshan Green Oolong

My first steep was a bit weird. Mainly grassy. Flavors like thier Lashon green. Second steep is more like an oolong. A bit creamy. Vegetal and slight mineral.

Vegetal yet quite sweet.

Here’s Hoping TTB (round 5)

I will call this tea: Ran Over Snails, A Green Oolong

So, I’ve had the Laoshan green tea but saw this in the box and had to try it. This was nice, but I have drank much black/puerh that this tea was quite light; thus, this became an outdoor drink :)
MMMMM how pleasant a green tea or oolong tea makes being outdoors :)

1tsp for 250mL water @90C, steeped two minutes.

I find some of the same scallop-y notes as I found in the Spring Harvest Laoshan Green, but with more butter and green vegetable notes. I’m getting some floral oolong notes cutting through the butter, veggies, and scallops. A lot going on here. Not sure yet if I like it.

When I saw this new offering on Verdant’s website I just HAD to try it. I’ve really enjoyed their Laoshan Green, and Tieguanyin, and this I expected to be a combination of the two.

To my delight, it landed right on the mark. The only thing I’d fault it on, is I wouldn’t mind it being a bit more floral. What I think I’m going to try next is mixing it with the Early Spring Tieguanyin. To be honest, I found this year’s Tieguanyin to be a little too light for my tastes. It’s a bit closer to white tea. Mixing the two together should produce a near perfect combination.

On the taste, I found this to be remarkably similar to a cross between Longjing and Tamaryokucha, but more nutty, and less grassy. A worthy alternative to those who’d prefer a less grassy tea liquor. It tastes more like a green tea than a Oolong. And, I definitely recommend using more leaf than usual.

My brewing method was simple. I used 8 oz leaf to 4 oz of boiling filtered water, 1 quick rinse, and 3 seconds steep in a gaiwan.

The flavor is quite juicy, and enjoyable. I could easily see this being a regular tea for me, as it captures all of the qualities I like in my daily sipping.

Yum!

Edit: OK… So, I tried mixing it, TWICE, and found that the TGY totally overpowers the Laoshan Green, unless adding very very little TGY. Just think of this as more of a green tea, but with a slight oolong quality to it. Easy does it on adding florals. Next time, I think I’ll add some Yabao, and see how that compares to the TGY. So much fun to experiment.

This tea was included in the last tea-of-the-month set (along with the roasted oolong and the bilochan as points of comparison).

I have to say I’m a bit confused with this tea being described as an oolong. The appearance both dry and wet, the aroma both dry and wet and the resultant cup all seem to me to be very much a green tea.

I enjoyed it very much, but I found nothing oolong about it at all.

I loved this tea. very fresh and tender like young-picked peas from the garden. This is the Gyokuro of oolongs in my opinion.

TTBC2 #6

This oolong has tons of character! The curled up leaves make a bright and sunny yellow infusion. The smell promises awesomeness, especially to a person like me who is besotted with all and any green oolongs. It tastes smooth, buttery and vegetal to a point where it starts tasting a little bit citrusy. I would say it is something like a cross between a milk oolong and a green style TGY – but there’s really so much more going on here than that.

The second steep was pretty decent, too, although it missed some of the fervor of the first one. Perhaps I should have steeped it longer?

Pretty similar to the autumn Laoshan green, very rich and pumpkiny.