Traditional Tieguanyin

Tea type
Oolong Tea
Ingredients
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Flavors
Beer, Cherry, Cream, Garlic, Honey, Leather, Malt, Tangy, Butter, Floral, Green, Popcorn, Roasted, Sweet, Caramel, Cinnamon, Coffee, Graham, Grass, Hay, Kettle Corn, Mineral, Orchid, Roast Nuts, Smoke, Vanilla, Violet, Wood, Kale, Spinach, Honeysuckle, Camphor, Flowers, Vegetal, Citrus, Cocoa, Fruity, Musty, Autumn Leaf Pile, Nuts, Almond, Bread, Seaweed, Corn Husk, Potato, Orchids, Plants
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Certification
Fair Trade, Organic
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Average preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 1 min, 30 sec 6 g 16 oz / 478 ml

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From Verdant Tea

Partially oxidized traditional Tieguanyin recalls sweet and savory kettle corn with woody incense undertones and a touch of tart berry . . .

Master Zhang of Daping Village has a running love affair with traditional partially oxidized Tieguanyin. He remembers learning the craft of roasting tea from his father long before greener Tieguanyin became popular across China. If you visit Master Zhang’s house high in the mountains, this is the tea that he will brew for you as a guest. His passion comes through in the aroma and flavor of his Traditional Tieguanyin.

The wet leaves have the sweet and savory combination that makes kettle corn so appealing. The aroma is almost thick and rich enough to eat, somewhere between roasted corn and sweet miso.

The first steepings are intensely bold- with a texture and flavor of whipped Yukon Gold mashed potatoes, and a deep woody note like sandalwood incense. In later steepings the flavor moves into cinnamon-spiced caramel sticky buns, complemented by a tart schisandra berry and savory almond aftertaste.

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217 tasting notes

Yum Yum Yum Yum Yum!!! This tea has inspired me to finally bite the bullet and buy a gaiwan so I can drink this the traditional way! Delicious!!

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1719 tasting notes

I put all my untried samples in the same box without thinking, so I am a little confused, but I think this came from CelebriTEA. She wrote Yummy :) on the packet and I would agree. The very strong wet leaf roasted scent had me a little nervous. Strangely the taste is nothing like the leaf scent. At first this is buttery, salty, savory. It does not remind me of kettle corn as it did others. This melts in to sweet and floral. The floral to me was green oolong not flowers but I liked it. Underneath the entire sip this has a nutty roastedness like the toasted rice in genmaicha. This is a good complex cup. Might even say it was Yummy :)

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 0 min, 30 sec 8 g 10 OZ / 295 ML

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237 tasting notes

I will start by saying that although this is very good, it does not inspire me the way other oolongs do. It has a slightly vegetal aroma. I also detect butter and black pepper in the scent. The vegetal notes are also present in the taste, with a slight mineral quality…Potato and cinnamon are also floating around. Pleasing overall, but I generally enjoy more floral oolongs.

Thank you caile :D

caile

; ) This wasn’t my favourite either.

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127 tasting notes

Was a typical TGY towards the end but the first flash steepings and dry leaf really surprised me. I got a unfamilar smell and taste over the first two steeping. The liqueur was a pale green almost like a green tea and I got a strong “dark green” vegetable aroma/taste. Maybe kelp or seaweed ? I was so surprised I wasn’t able to pinpoint it before it vanished. Also the body and creaminess with the first few steeping was really unique unfortunely after a total of maybe a minute of steepings it returned to the typical flavor profile and yellow TGY liqueur color.

Interesting, not amazing(TGY isnt my thing lately) but I would drink it again if I had more(only a 6g sample).

Flavors: Bread, Cream, Seaweed

Preparation
Boiling 0 min, 30 sec 6 g 3 OZ / 100 ML

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6 tasting notes

Having this style of tieguanyin was a mind blowing experience! The flavor was so much richer than over varieties of tieguanyin that I’ve tasted which yield more aroma then flavor. I enjoyed the buttery/cereal rich flavor

Flavors: Butter, Corn Husk

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 0 min, 15 sec 5 g 4 OZ / 118 ML

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125 tasting notes

Sipdown! Thank you Verdant for this tasty sample!

Definitely a very yummy tea but then again…. It’s an oolong, right? :D I don’t think I’ve tried straight oolong I didn’t like yet. Oolong to me is always a win.

The steeped tea was sweet and floral with some mild vegetal notes. Steeps 2 and beyond brought some nuttiness and a slight, well balanced astringency developing towards the end of the sip. The floral edge was the strongest during the first steep and got progressively weaker as the steeps went on.

Oveall delicious but I would prefer stronger floral notes.

Preparation
7 g 7 OZ / 207 ML

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