This is my last ATR oolong sample. I think. I can’t find any others, so that’s a good sign.
After yesterday’s tremendous success with the The O Dor milk oolong, I’m a little nervous to try any others.
This one has a very strong smell of butter in the packet. Very, very strong. Almost disturbingly so.
I rinsed, then steeped in the gaiwan starting at 15 secs at 195F.
The tea is pale yellow and smells of milky butter. A very slight floral note at the edges. It tastes like milk, for sure, but there’s something about it that doesn’t live up to the very high bar yesterday’s milk oolong set. I don’t want to go so far as to say that it is bad, but to use an apt analogy, it’s as though the milk is slightly off. Like on the way to turning bad.
The second steep turns a little more toward heavy cream flavor. It has a bit more sweetness. But I can’t get the thought of milk that is a little “off” out of my head.
The last two steeps were better. The note that bothered me either became faint enough that it no longer did, or went away. Still, it is just OK to me, not the magical experience I had yesterday.
I don’t know whether I’m being fair here. Everyone else who wrote notes about it seems to really love this one.
Oh well.
Flavors: Butter, Cream, Floral, Milk
