Dayuling High Mountain Oolong

Tea type
Oolong Tea
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Flavors
Butter, Cabbage, Cream, Floral, Fruity, Mango, Papaya, Rainforest, Salt, Savory, Sugar, Sweet, Tropical Fruit, Vegetal, Cookie, Grass, Green, Green Beans, Lettuce, Orchid, Peach, Plants, Smooth, Sugarcane, Creamy
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Edit tea info Last updated by Daylon R Thomas
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Boiling 1 min, 0 sec 6 g 5 oz / 134 ml

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  • “JEEZUM this is good. WFT has the highest quality tea of any vendor I’ve tried. This one is complex beyond it’s competitors. Savory, vegetal, floral, fruity, sweet, creamy all combined. Crazy...” Read full tasting note
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  • “This is my three hundredth tasting note! Let’s hope there will be many more to come. Even without the swaps, Steepster is a great place to explore new teas and hone my tasting skills. I appreciate...” Read full tasting note
  • “WARNING- LONG LONG LONG NOTE FOR AN OOLONG. My stash is the 2020 lot, but it has the same notes as they used in their description for 2021. I actually ordered 50 grams of this last year but got 2...” Read full tasting note
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From Wang Family Tea

The dry leaves are uniformly small and have a color that reminds us of evergreen trees; dark to light green hues with touches of earthy brown. Dry leaf aroma is lightly floral with a hint of sweet mung bean paste.

After the inspection of the dry leaves, we start by placing the leaves into a preheated gaiwan. Once placed into the gaiwan, the leaves give off a strong buttery aroma with an intense white sugar sweetness.

Once brewed, the leaves become even more fragrant. They have a unique forest aroma that is only found in very high mountain teas. Strong notes of white sugar, vegetal (sweet high mountain cabbage(高麗菜)), orchids, and warm butter. The tea tastes incredibly sweet and buttery. In fact, drinking this tea gives your mouth a distinct buttery sensation that coats your entire mouth. Strong floral and vegetal (high mountain cabbage and mung bean paste) notes are also present. After five second, the aftertaste kicks in. The aftertaste is almost more intense than the initial taste of this tea and has a strong distinct “returning sweetness” (huigan / 回甘).

The second-round smells sweetly vegetal, flowery, and “misty” in the way only high mountain tea does. This misty flavor is hard to describe; it’s similar to petrichor, but with more depth. The buttery notes from the previous round are all but gone. Instead, the distinct vegetal notes have become more dominant. The floral note from the previous round has transformed into a deeper, more complex orchid flavor. The aftertaste is buttery and even more intense than the first round. The huigan reminds me of drinking water that has been infused with flowers.

The third-round leaves smell less vegetal but are sweeter than the previous round; the sweetness is that of flowers and orchids. This round has very deep flavor. It’s like swallowing a high mountain forest. There is that distinct flavor that can only be described as mist-soaked air, lichen, and evergreen trees. The vegetal from previous round is still present, but it’s now dwarfed by an intense orchid sweetness. This sweetness continues to grow on the aftertaste till it reaches a truly staggering level. The aftertaste is so sweet that my mouth starts to produce saliva.

The fourth round continues to show off the high mountain characteristics of this tea. The vegetal note has made a comeback. Now it tastes almost exactly like sweet high mountain cabbage. There is also a distinct flavor of hard boiled eggs. Underneath these notes is the ever present, intense floral sweetness. At this point, the huigan is almost too intense.

Once you finish your session with this tea, you must try touching the brewed leaves. The brewed leaves are incredibly tender and thin; they fall apart at all but the gentlest touch.

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JEEZUM this is good. WFT has the highest quality tea of any vendor I’ve tried. This one is complex beyond it’s competitors. Savory, vegetal, floral, fruity, sweet, creamy all combined. Crazy mouthfeel, huigan, aftertaste. Perfect balance.

Medium-low sweetness, no astringency or bitterness. Longevity is 6 infusions. Mouthfeel is quite buttery. Aftertaste lasts minutes. Super yummy and barely any faults.

The most unique aspect of this tea is that every steep is a bouquet of new flavors. Truly the perfect tea for gongfu.

Harvest: Winter 2022
Cultivar: Qing Xin
Location: Da Yu Ling
Elevation: 2500 m

Dry leaf: papaya, mango, tropical
Wet leaf: papaya, mango, tropical, vegetal, floral
Flavor: Cabbage, vegetal, floral, buttery, creamy, savory, sweet, sugar, salt, mist, rainforest.

Flavors: Butter, Cabbage, Cream, Floral, Fruity, Mango, Papaya, Rainforest, Salt, Savory, Sugar, Sweet, Tropical Fruit, Vegetal

Leafhopper

Yes, Wang has some awesome teas! I had a different harvest and didn’t get those tropical flavours, but Daylon and I were also raving over those mist/rainforest/ethereal notes. I hope you got some of their FSS.

Marshall Weber

IK the rainforest notes are wild! Like you’re transported there in the middle of a foggy, cloudy afternoon.

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This is my three hundredth tasting note! Let’s hope there will be many more to come. Even without the swaps, Steepster is a great place to explore new teas and hone my tasting skills. I appreciate you guys!

When I ordered from Wang Family Tea last summer, I got every high mountain oolong except for Dayuling, which only came in a 50 g bag. Fortunately, Daylon remedied this situation with a generous sample. I steeped it according to the vendor’s instructions using 6 g in 120 ml of boiling water for 60, 50, 65, 90, 120, 160, and 240 seconds, plus 4, 5, and 10 minute steeps.

The dry aroma is of orchids, veggies, and sugarcane. The first steep has notes of fresh veggies, including lettuce and green beans, plus orchid, peach, cookie, and sugarcane. The sweet orchid aftertaste goes on for minutes. The second steep gives me even headier orchid, veggies (I get cabbage in this steep), white sugar, peach, and other flowers I can’t name. There’s a green, sappy, “plant-like” quality to this tea. The next steep is quite similar, with orchid, peach, plants, cabbage, green beans, and sugarcane sweetness. Daylon detects hyacinths, and that might be the flower I’m also getting. The aftertaste is almost as good as the tea itself. The peach has bowed out by the fourth steep, though the veggies, florals, and sweetness are still prominent. By the seventh steep, this tea is mostly grassy and vegetal, though there’s no hint of the astringency that plagues most green oolongs in their final steeps. This seems to be a characteristic of Wang’s teas.

This tea is elegant, elusive, and ethereal while still having lots of flavour. I don’t claim to taste misty mountain forests, but I understand where that’s coming from. This tea deserves careful attention, and I’m going to hold off on rating it until I do a couple more sessions.

Flavors: Cabbage, Cookie, Floral, Grass, Green, Green Beans, Lettuce, Orchid, Peach, Plants, Smooth, Sugar, Sugarcane, Sweet, Vegetal

Preparation
Boiling 1 min, 0 sec 6 g 4 OZ / 120 ML
Michelle

Congrats on your 300th note. Its about the tea journey, not the number of notes(so I tell myself as I don’t write one very often)

Martin Bednář

But the tea journey is wonderful one and swaps are fun!

Leafhopper

Thanks, Michelle! Indeed, it’s about the tea journey (I don’t write many notes either).

Martin, absolutely, swaps are fun, and you get to try all sorts of new teas! But even without them, Steepster is a good place. :)

derk

Congrats, always happy to see your notes and do swaps :)

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WARNING- LONG LONG LONG NOTE FOR AN OOLONG.

My stash is the 2020 lot, but it has the same notes as they used in their description for 2021. I actually ordered 50 grams of this last year but got 2 10 gram samples; I contacted the company and they sent me the 50 grams that I ordered.

Reviewing this one, it’s an extremely clean and thick high mountain oolong. It can handle high temperatures and it usually lasts at least 6 steeps for me when I brew it in the 20-30 sec increment scale, but I also follow the parameters on the website rinsing the tea, then going for 60, 50, 65, 90, and then long steeps ahead. The shorter steeps bring out more of the florals you smell in the aroma into the taste, but the longer steeps gong fu give you a more rounded mouthfeel. Boiling water amps up aroma, cooler temperatures make the tea a little bit sweeter in my experience.

The notes on this one are interesting because it really hits you more in feeling, while the tea is not lacking in flavor. It’s a lighter tea that I can see red tea drinkers snubbing, and it’s not as fruity as other Dayulings. While it’s definitely floral, the florals are harder to pin apart other than orchid, some hyacinth, and other more subtle white flowers. Snowdrops kept coming to my mind. It is definitely sweet having a white sugar note in the first two steeps, even in the rinse, and it’s got a refreshing vegetal creamy mouthfeel. The site describes the vegetal notes as being like mountain cabbage, and I can see it in the teas refreshing crisp quality. Sometimes it’s got a white egg quality in texture, and there were times where I get peach in steep 3, but not too often. Orchid, sugar, white flowers, and cabbage are the main notes I get.

Like most Dayuling’s it’s effervescent, and it feels like your drinking a mountain mist cloud in overlooking a forest kind of like the way the describe. Like a cuifeng, it’s got some alpine notes too which I usually don’t get. They were describing petrichor, but I am getting something like drinking dew and misty fog. This tea is the essence of moisture, and moisture is the essence of beauty……(mer-man high pitch pitiful coughing)
Comment if you know the movie reference!

So yes, this is leaf water, but it’s good leaf water that comes from mountains with water falls and mist. Basically, it’s what a Dayuling is supposed to be. I’ve only had one other Dayuling that I’ve liked a little bit more in terms of flavor, but I highly recommend this one mostly because I recommend Wang Family Tea period. Their customer service is awesome and none of their teas disappoint me. If you are looking more for something flavor forward and fruity, then the Fushou Shan might be a better bet or one of the specialty Shanlinxi’s. The cuifeng is also exceptional if you are looking for something cheaper but just as good.

I’m just glad that I finally got to reviewing this one. I know a few of you are probably tired of the constant high mountain oolongs I review. They are becoming a specialty at this point. Leafhopper, if you want me to save some of this for you, I will. Just let me know.

Flavors: Butter, Creamy, Floral, Lettuce, Orchid, Peach, Rainforest, Smooth, Sugar, Sugarcane, Sweet, Vegetal

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 1 min, 0 sec 5 g 5 OZ / 147 ML
derk

I’m not tired of your reviews! You stop with that nonsense.

Mastress Alita

I would NEVER miss a Zoolander reference. I’ve had that whole movie memorized for years!

tea-sipper

Not tired of them either!

Leafhopper

Keep those high mountain oolong reviews coming! I have a bit of the Foushoushan but none of the Dayuling, so I’d be delighted if you could keep some for me. We could do another swap in the fall when my stash is a bit more manageable.

Daylon R Thomas

Sounds good!

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