T-Oolongtea

Ohhhh! Where have you been all my life?
This is spectacular!

It’s Rich, Creamy, Sweet, Brothy, and both sip-able and/or Gulp-able! It has notes of Honeysuckle but also lime and lime type flavors.

It’s marvelous!

This is beautifully crisp!

It’s sweet, a little fruity, and hydrating and crisp…much like iceberg lettuce!

A delightful Oolong! Really wonderful!

I’ll be sharing a little of this with SIL
It smells like warm honey…it’s lovely.
See other notes.
Upping rating!

This is really different! It’s a cross between a Black and an Oolong…literally!

“Taiwan Honey Black Tea Oolong is produced following the method of making black tea oolong tea and using the raw tea leaves for oriental beauty. The oxidation of this tea is between black tea and oriental beauty oolong to preserve the flavor of black tea and the taste of oriental beauty oolong.”

This has a rich yet dry, sweet, and smooth type taste. I would totally agree in saying that it’s complex! I like Complex! I can pick up on the honey notes…it might be leaning more towards a mead flavor and not a commercially-sweet or flavored honey, if that makes sense.

I’m just finishing my 2nd cup of this and it’s certainly a tea that makes you think!

This is Dandy!

Aroma is floral, honeysuckle, and something near caramel.

Flavor is Honeysuckle at first and then BAM!!!! Change up to something like pixie-sticks type sugary-POW that pops in and out and then changes to a plum, peach, powdered-sugar taste that completely surprised me!

I can’t help but love this one! WOWZA! I’m going to share this one with my girl, DaisyChubb!

I believe it was Mercuryhime who sent this one to me a while back! Thanks very much!!!

Dry – this smells like slightly buttered and salted spinach and artichokes with peach notes. VERY interesting aroma!

While it’s infusing it smells more like a greener oolong with milky oolong tendencies.

I’m not sure how many Arishan Mountain Range Teas I have tried but I think I can count them on one hand.

This is incredibly creamy but not an intense milky creamy like other milky oolong – I agree with Mercuryhime there! It’s more of a green flavor, much like a green tea or a greenest of the oolongs anyways.

There are vegetal flavors that pop in and out which I am enjoying very much!

This one sure makes ya think! And I think I like it!

Oh! I already logged this one! Well, see previous notes…I’m drinking a cuppa now. Sending the rest to Azz

This kind of smells like a milk oolong but it tastes quite different. It’s more floral, a little vegetal, and a bit lime-like. It’s fairly smooth. The aftertaste is a little sweet but I wouldn’t say the actual sip is sweet, if that makes sense. Honeysuckle! Yes…Honeysuckle! I smell it and I taste it! Ah-ha!

A gentle Oolong flavor with a hint of buttered veggies is always a nice way to start things off – at least that is how I feel! :)

It smells like it tastes and it tastes like it smells! This is a nice no-nonsense type oolong! It’s rich and has a hint of fruit to it in additional to being slightly vegetal. It’s NOT bitter. I can’t quite put my finger on what type of fruit I am picking up…perhaps pear or nectarine – something rather subtle.

Regardless – I like this one A LOT

This is a real gem!

Post infusion the color of the leaves are that of a steamed Broccoli! Vibrant and Fresh GREEN!

It’s not as creamy as some of the Milk Oolongs I have tried but the flavor is unique and springy-green! There is a sweet-sour flip-flop going on and I like that! It also has a smooth end sip and as it cools a bit I can pick up the milky notes more!

This is a great Oolong! I appreciate this very much!

I LOVE Alishan! My very favorite Oolong. And this is one of the best of the best… if not the best. Did that make sense? Basically, this is one amazing Alishan. Sweet … like honey. A pleasant mouthfeel that is thick but not so much creamy as it is reminiscent of a warm, thinned honey … but not sticky.

Floral, yes, but the floral tones are not sharp or pungent, they are more of a sweet, delectable floral, with a nice fruit note in the background that makes this Alishan quite unlike any that I can ever recall.

If you only try one Alishan in your life, make it this one.

Oh wow! This is so lovely! Just as the description suggests, I can really taste a crisp minty note. There is no mint in this tea, and it is not a flavored tea, this is just a natural characteristic of this tea. Amazing. It is sweet, no bitterness, with a rich, smooth, malty quality. A very comforting tea – the kind you want to drink hot and with which you want to curl up under a cozy blanket in front of a fireplace. Which is kind of nice because we have been experiencing a rather chilly spring day today.

I really like this one… I hope that T-Oolong gets it in stock again.

This is a remarkable Oolong – quite floral but with a nice fruit tone in the background as well. The taste is like a combination of honeysuckle, orchid, apple, plum and peach. So sweet! The aftertaste lingers a long time after the sip, this is one of the longest lasting aftertastes I’ve yet to experience. A brothy kind of texture – thick and almost creamy … but not quite.

A really delightful Oolong.

Weekend mornings are oolong mornings, it seems. It’s just that I always want to spend time with an oolong and evenings are bad because of the caffeine so it’s always got to be a day with I have a few morning hours to spare. This oolong is definitely worth the time.

Steep 1: Mmm…so floral honey and creamy and sweet. It has an unusual crispness. I’m not sure how to describe it, but it’s intriguing and delicious.

Steep 2: Vegetal now, but still sweet and smooth. It tastes like summer. Like the smell of the country in July, full of promise for a fruitful harvest. (I hope you’ll forgive my poetic inclinations this morning. :)) It’s also a delicious floral perfume and a hint of fresh cut grass or maybe budding spring greenery. I’m trying to describe it objectively, but this tea just tastes like imagery instead. No wonder oolongs always make me feel so meditative.

Steep 3: More vegetal and more creamy. Like a creamy vegetable soup. Asparagus? not really… milder. artichoke heart? hmm… maybe.

Steep 4: That floral essence is sort of in the background now with the vegetal aspect being more assertive. That odd delicious crispiness is also stronger. It is pleasantly drying on the tongue. There’s a bit of a honey aftertaste. The caffeine has me feeling alert and invigorated, which is great since I plan on going for a jog soon. It’s such a beautiful day, I might not even need music to convince myself to keep going just a little longer. :)

I think I’m good now. I maybe steep more later but I’m done for the moment. Good bye delicious oolong samples from t-oolongtea. I’d buy more but I’ve got lots of tea to drink through first. I really need to drink through my collection faster! I need more visitors so I can make tea for them! Also, when I ask people what sort of tea they’re interested in, they NEVER pick oolong. Sad.

EDIT: My 200th tasting note! Cheers! clinks mugs all around :)

I’ve had this one twice now and it’s the first chance I have been able to jot down some tasting notes :)

First and most noticeably is the strength of the long, wiry leaves! They are wonderful!

The aroma is of medium strength black tea that is bready/crusty-esque.

The flavor is MARV…very high quality tea. It’s malty and smooth with highlights of that bread-like flavor. The more I drink this the more I LOVE it! I’m going to send the rest to LiberTeas, tho! She’ll get a kick out of it!

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CHEERS!

Backlogging a cup or two from last week and I’m on my 3rd for today! This is the first time I have been able to jut down some tasting notes, tho! It’s been a CRAZY few weeks! Oye!

This isn’t like most Alishan’s I have tried…it has a bit more going on that others, I suppose! Yes…it’s creamy-smoooth…but not AS Creamy-Smooth as many other Alishan’s…in addition it has this flavor combo that I can only compare to a cross between cheerio’s, a subtle charcoal, and dried apricots and cranberries…Cran-Cots? Apri-Berries? Not sure! But it’s a VERY unique flavor – NATURALLY – on the tongue! It’s hard to put it in the same class as other Alishans because it’s so noticeably different! Kudos for Creative!

I reviewed this previously, but that was last year’s harvest, and this is a whole new harvest! Yay!

I’m on my third and fourth infusions now, almost finished with this cup so I will be moving on to my fifth and sixth infusions. The first two infusions were very strongly floral – lovely honeysuckle with a hint of orchid in the background. Very nice. It is a smooth tasting tea, not so much what I’d call creamy, but more soft and silky smooth, especially in the first two infusions. This second cup has a little bit of a buttery tone emerging, along with more fruit tones.

A very enjoyable cup, I look forward to the next!

LOVE! The flavor is very floral, intensely floral! With the first cup, I noticed strong honeysuckle-like flavors … with the second cup (infusions number three and four), I found it to be more like honeysuckle and Orchid, and with the third cup, the floral notes became more like a mellow medley with fewer distinct notes. Mouthfeel is smooth and rich. Lovely sweetness to this tea, and hints of peach and citrus.

Wonderful Oolong!!!

Mercuryhime – thank you!!!

Ahhhh! This is like a cross between a mellow darjeeling (black) and a Formosa Oolong and is really quite nice! It’s a bit toasted and a little like dried apricots as well…it’s even a bit chewy…which is nice and unexpected for an oolong!

The more I sip this one the more I am liking it. Very nice, indeed!

Rinsed. First steep is light floral and barely milky. Very smooth. This is a lightly oxidized oolong, which is fine by me. Greener oolongs are my favorites.
Second and third steep is slightly more milky, but it is still quite mild. The peachy flavor is coming through more. It is very floral with a slight vegetal finish. Slightly spicy.
Fourth steep is still going strong. The vegetal flavors are winning out now with peach in the background. There’s a bit of plum coming through as well. Milkiness is diminishing but there’s a stronger buttery flavor at the end of the sip.
This can probably go another steep or two.

I love how the floral flavors just linger in your mouth. Tea is probably the best breath freshener.

It is not really all that milky for a milk oolong. I think their regular Alishan Oolong is more milky than this. The peach flavor is quite a nice complement. It is very smooth and and satisfying. I think I’d have liked it more if it wasn’t called a milk oolong. I have another 50 grams of this and I just keep thinking how much my mom would like it. I’ll be bringing her some on my next visit. :)

The toasty apricot flavors become stronger by the third steep. The taste is still very strong. It can probably go several more steeps. The creaminess has faded to the background but it is still very smooth.

I’m lowering the rating here because I’m not really a fan of the more oxidized teas and this oolong is probably on the edge of being a black tea. It’s still enjoyable though.

The leaves are small and fuzzy. They range in color from black to brown to red. There are some whites where the fur is especially dense. Clearly, these are young leaves. From the smell of the dry leaves, you can already tell that this is a more oxidized oolong. The scent reminded me of Hong Kong style milk tea. There is a smooth creamy character.

Flash rinse, then steep for 30 seconds. The tea is a light yellowish brown. It is milky and toasty. There is a hint of apricot and earthiness. It’s very sweet.

Very tasty. It’s definitely more like black tea than oolong, but it is very enjoyable.

Another win for this tea company! More info on the other steeps forthcoming. :)

I should have let the third steep sit longer before drinking it. Ah well. Mild but good. The forth steep is still creamy smooth. Astringency is gone. I know this tastes floral but I can’t really tell what kind of flower I’m tasting. And the apricot flavor comes out in the later steeps. Really good!

I’m checking out the unfurled leaves here and they are all two leaves and a bud. This may explain the caffeine I’m feeling. Maybe.

I’m gonna go for a fifth steep later this evening. That’s probably the last steep these leaves can take. I’m so glad I took a chance and ordered from here. Try it people!

This tea is delicious! Wow! I’m surprised this tea company isn’t on Steepster’s database if this is the quality of tea they produce. Mmmm…I got a couple of other samples from this company so I’ll probably be populating Steepster with my logs on this company. :)

Anyway, on to the tea! THe smell of the dry leaves is yummy. It smells smooth and floral and creamy. I rinsed the leaves. First steep was delectable. Green and smooth. There’s a milky quality to it with a slight astringent finish. Very yums! Second steep is more smooth and creamy. I’ll report back on the other steeps later.