Gong Fu Sipdown (615)!
I like milk oolong teas – a fair bit, actually. Especially when they’re completely natural but still have that thick creamy buttery mouthfeel AND taste. However, I don’t think I’ve ever craved milk oolongs in general as much as I have this winter. Like, I simply cannot get enough of them – and no milk oolong seems to be able to do me dirty.
This was a pretty nice milk oolong in the first place; but this Gong Fu session just hit the spot so well_. I came home from work last week, and usually I don’t brew Gong Fu after I get off work because it’s 6PM and I don’t generally want to commit to the caffeine intake of a Gong Fu session that late at night when I know I’ll have to get up the next day at 6:30AM. I mean, I can do a Western cup (_or maybe two) of something caffeinated because my tolerance is pretty high; but a litre or two of tea? Nah…
However the cravings were real so I broke my Gong Fu rule and steeped this up anyway. I, excuse the pun, milked this tea for all it was worth and got a beautiful fifteen infusion session out of the last of my sample. Creamy, thick mouthfeel – surprisingly sweet body throughout the bulk of the session (save for the first two and last two steeps), and this amazing mix of fresh churned butter, condensed milk, caramel, and orchid notes. All of those are notes I’ve experienced in milk oolong before – but I don’t know that I’ve ever had a session that featured all of them so consistently and beautifully.
Truly, this felt like an emotional sort of tea session – one filled with pure bliss, harmony, and peacefulness. I’m not really a stressed sort of person in general – especially relating to work at the lab (thus far, anyway) but even so by the end of the session I felt like anything I could have even possibly been stressed about had just sort of… melted away.
Photos: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs66NEzFCjP/
Song Pairing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe0Enf31npc
Nice song :)
Ooh, this might make it into a future teabento order. Maybe Black Friday…. haha.