676 Tasting Notes
A solid, middle of the road Wuyi oolong. I received a sample of this with my Shui Xian order and I prefer the latter of the two. This is a roasty tea with an oak wood aroma and flavor, and a mild sweetness. It takes a steeping or two for the fruity flavors of the tea to shine through. Overall a good tea, but doesn’t blow my socks off.
Flavors: Dried Fruit, Malt, Oak, Roasted, Smooth
Preparation
Just finished my sample and I am not too impressed with this tea. I tried brewing it both gongfu and western style and found the flavor to be weak. Flavor-wise, this tea is mostly vegetal with faint notes of milk and floral. It lacks the intense sweetness and complexity of a good green oolong. It’s drinkable, but pretty forgettable overall.
Flavors: Milk, Vanilla, Vegetal
Preparation
Decent, but not great. This tea has a very vegetal taste and lacks the sweetness of other Silver Needle teas I’ve had. Still a pleasant cup of tea to drink around bedtime that helps gently calm your nerves.
Flavors: Hay, Vegetal
Preparation
A very finnicky tea but once you get the brewing parameters right, it rewards you with a delicate syrupy-sweet floral taste that’s balanced with hint of nutty roasted flavor, characteristic of darker oolongs.
Brewed in gaiwan for 2 mins @ 185 F for the first infusion. Added one minute to each subseuqent infusion.
Flavors: Floral, Maple Syrup, Thick
Preparation
Just finished the last of my stash of this tea and I’m torn on how to rate it. Sometimes it could be sublime, other times it tasted like bad potpourri and made me feel sick. It starts out nice enough. The jasmine and citrus work nicely with the floral tie guan yin and there are hints of goji berry, but then the frankincense comes out and dominates leaving me sick to my stomach. There is saffron in there but it’s not detectable.
Flavors: Bergamot, Citrus, Jasmine
