Golden Coast Tea Club

Fuding white tea sold by golden coast tea club in oakville, Ontario.

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Review: gongfucha ru Yao dragon teapot.

Dry leaf: sweet, spices.
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Wet leaf: roasted, Sweet, pepper.
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Light steep; I taste/smell: (smell) slight floral. (Taste) slight —> pepper, roasted (?). Light -→ floral, roasted peanuts, metallic (Iron).

Medium steep; I taste/smell: (smell) slight floral. (Taste) light to medium
—→ floral, roasted peanuts, roasted, metallic (iron) (copper?), garden, pepper. Medium floral.
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Heavy steep; I taste/smell: (smell) slight floral. Light sea water. (Taste) light —→ floral, pepper, sea water.

All in all a yummy tea. Although the brick (whole looks about 25g-35g), it’s ten bucks for a brick. I think I might order more sometime. I rate a 95/100. Yummy tea. Nice and mellow. Nice hui guan and cha qi.

If you can google the store, I suggest you try it.

an ok tea :/

when i smell the leaves dry, i smell chocolate.

when i smell the leaves wet, the smell is intensified.

when i smell the brewed tea, i smell chocolate.

when i taste the brewed tea, i taste chocolate.

the color of the brewed tea is a chocolate brown.

i rate this a 40 because it was ok but im not for the heavy chocolate. not good for me, but may be good for others.

many thanks to amy and the golden coast tea club for selling me this sample.

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an amazing tea!

when i smell the leaves dry, they smell like sweet grass.

when i smell the leaves wet, the smell is intensified.

when i smell the brewed tea, i smell sweet grass.

when i taste the brewed tea, i taste sweet grass.

the color of the brewed tea is a light yellow color.

i rate this tea a 100 because dragonwell is my favorite green tea.

many thanks to Amy and golden coast tea club for selling me this tea sample.

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The leaves of this dahongpao from Golden Coast Tea Club are consistent with what you would expect from this Wuyi oolong. I used 7g of leaf to 6oz boiling water in a gaiwan infusing for 5s increasing by ~3s every time. The aroma is spicy and has a strong smell of oak wood with hints of vanilla. The flavor has similar notes of wood, spice, and vanilla and is rich. The liquor is a nice ruby red. This is a good tea and I will definitely drink it again.

I feel like they forgot about the orange in these. I’ve had a couple steeps now and while this is a really nice puerh -smooth, with some depth there is little to no orange to be found. Which makes me sad because i love orange + puerh and was so hopeful for these little guys. Still though, not crying over it because the puerh in itself is lovely and has been very enjoyable this afternoon.

I had no intention of buying a Taiwanese oolong when I went to this teashop on Monday but the owner and I started discussing teas we enjoy and she wanted to show me this one. Once I smelled it I was sold. It smelled like candy; a slightly floral, fruity candy with hints of melon and stone fruit and spice.

The dry leaf is a tightly rolled glossy blue spruce green with bits of yellowish olive.

I used enough leaf to cover the bottom of 150 ml gaiwan and gave the leaves a rinse. I used water @96°C.

I hoped for a resilient tea as the seller suggested this tea could be steeped 6-8 times even using western style brewing and so far it’s delivered. I am still enjoying this tea after the 11 th steep and it is still imparting a well balanced sweet fruity spicy floral tea that has a creamy body and produces a tingling in my mouth. I started with short steeps because of the intensity of fragrance. My times so far have been 5,7,10,12,15,20,25,30,40,60,80s.

Flavour notes I have noted are: cream, tart peach, melon, papaya, pineapple stewed pears, and apricot which appears more towards the end; honey, candied rose petals, gardenia, a bit of lilac, and magnolia, with the floral notes heading towards a nutmeg spice later on mixed with a creamy cool magnolia and orchid; corn, sweet vegetal notes with a bit of artichoke later on, and occasional hints of sandalwood and citrus notes. The sweetness and floral spice mix often intensifies in the aftertaste. Overall this tea is leaving me feeling balanced and cleansed and I look forward to continuing this session. What I have noticed is this tea appreciates a rest between steeps. Once I have allowed it to rest this tea tends to have a more balanced flavour profile. This tea is also very well balanced between it’s floral and fruity elements with both being well present but with neither overpowering the other. I’m looking forward to continuing this session and am enjoying my impulse purchase.

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I’m finishing off this session after 19 steeps. (The final ones being 130, 180, 240, 300, 300, 360, 600 and 600s). The tea still retained a fruity honeyed sweetness with spice and still produced a tingling in my mouth.