Guangzhou Milk Oolong

First off, this isn’t a real milk oolong. Milk oolong isn’t supposed to have milk or any other flavorings added to it. It’s a fake.

Secondly, it’s not even that good. A friend gave me a cup and I was polite enough to drink it, but the fake milky flavor was honestly pretty gross. It’s a sub-par tea at best, and certainly not worth the price.

NOT a real milk oolong. Milk oolong is not supposed to have flavoring added.

This is my first Milk Oolong! :O
I don’t generally like drinking milk, but there was so much hype here about milk oolong that I wanted to try it. Got this as a sample from the awesome, mj!
So while this doesn’t really taste like milk, I can’t figure out what it tastes like.
It’s so weird.
It’s pretty buttery, and that’s really all I can think of right now to describe it. xD It’s just different. I have mixed feelings about this tea…. It’s just…weird. I don’t even know. xD So I won’t give it a rating haha

You want your tasting notes to stand on their own two feet, but I just can’t help but compare this to Teavivre’s milk oolongs, the only other milk oolongs I’ve tried so far.

First off, I can already tell that there is a greater range among milk oolongs than I originally thought. Teavivre’s were decidedly on the green side, whereas David’s is venturing into some of those mineral flavors of a slightly darker tea; Teavivre’s had a distinct spinach note and David’s is more like Swiss chard, both in smell and taste. Even the milk flavor varies. David’s actually tastes like milk. Teavivre’s flavored milk oolong tastes like buttercream. The unflavored one has a hint of butter, but it’s far more subtle.

Overall, I think Teavivre’s oolong is superior (and did I mention, half the price?) but this is still a solid tea, and if I hadn’t tried Teavivre’s first, I probably would have loved it. As it is, I will drink this purchase down happily (because the REAL tragedy would be having NO milk oolong) but the next time I get this it will be from Teavivre.

This is excellent. I really really like it. I love oolongs to start with and this has that oolong-ness to it, but that flavor is wrapped in this soft layer of milky creaminess. It reminds me of the crème fraîche that my grandma (who’s from Newfoundland) used to give me as a child. I love what I called “neufy cream” and am so pleased to find a tea reminiscent of it :-).

Dude. I’ve been wanting to try this tea for so long now! I actually bought it like a good 2 months or so ago when I did my massive DAVIDsTEA haul and this was on the top of my list!
It smells very very much like a nice oolong throughout. From dry to steeping. Ahh I love oolongs so much. I love how it has tones of green tea and tones of black. I love the smokiness/roasty smell of oolongs as well. And the fact that when they unravel, you see humongo leaves ahh I just love them so much!

Mmmm so nice and smooth. A slightly stronger roasted oolong taste compared to other oolongs I’ve had. It tastes roasted, jut light and fluffy. Ahh I really like this so much! Definitely one of the better oolongs I’ve tasted :)

This used to be one of my favorite straight teas until I found out the place they source it from started adding flavouring. Still, I have to give it props for being a completely unique oolong in flavour. That creamy/smoky flavour is unreal. Love how smooth it is, and each steep seems better than the last. I’ve gotten 8 steeps out of this tea before I had to call it quits. Flavouring aside, it’s amazing.

This tea was not for me. Other people love it, but nope.

I made it before a meeting, and that first mug was mostly okay but not anything that impressed me. Okay, not entirely true as I was impressed with how huge the leaves got while steeping. But the flavor wasn’t all that exciting. I was in a horrible meeting, and maybe that was it, right?

I figured I probably did something wrong with it and decided to try again. I hadn’t had time this morning to get the kettle out at work, so I was just guesstimating on the water temperature. This time, I pulled the kettle out and made sure the temperature was right before trying again.

It was still just maybe okay, and on the downer side of okay. But I thought maybe it was the flavoring added to the tea (others say they don’t see that, and I agree on the bad it seems to indicate that it doesn’t have flavoring in it, but on the website, it clearly says it has flavoring added to it) and that by itself it would be better. The resteep was so horrible I dumped it out.

So this tea isn’t for me, and I have two tablespoons pulled out of the 50g bag. Oh well. Other people seem to love this tea. I’ll just put the rest into traveling tea boxes I’min.

A pretty good starter Milk Oolong.

I am not one to explain flavors “properly”, given that tasting words are so new to me. I tend to describe them with emotions. Quangzhou Milk Oolong tastes like giving an old friend a hug after a long time apart. It tastes buttery and smooth, a scent that reminds me a little of movie theatre popcorn without tasting anything like it. I grabbed a cup on a friend’s recommendation and steeped it again and again! I look forward to buying some for myself.