The dry leaf weirdly has miso as the dominant aroma with soy sauce, cloves, nuts and camphor wood as background aroma. The wet leaf has a honey with cardamom note to it and unripened bananas too. The real brews are very aromatic with notes of honey, rose, honeysuckle, nuts, milk and surprisingly waxy corn and peanut butter! It also has a indescribable taste that is present in all Gaba teas I’ve had. The brews were amber in color and the texture is full, thick and creamy. The leaves were brown with a red hue, a very unique color for a taiwan high mountain oolong. I used the Gongfu tea method to brew this tea with a porcelain gaiwan as brewing vessel.
Flavors: Banana, Camphor, Cardamom, Clove, Creamy, Honey, Honeysuckle, Milk, Nuts, Peanut, Rose, Soy Sauce, Sweet Corn, Thick