Melon Oolong

Lupicia had a special sale of oolong sachets, and I was meaning to try this for a long time. I also have quite a few notes to catch up on.

I wanted to try this one for a while, and I’m glad I finally did. Super fake, yes, and I enjoy it fully. The flavoring is a little bit too intense in terms of what I usually like, but since it’s so close to Japanese Honeydew flavored candy and even honeydew flavored Boba Tea, I really enjoyed it. The oolong compliments in the flavoring naturally, and adds a lot of texture and creamy profiles in my cup. I can taste some sugar crystals too from the added candy, and the tea has a little bit of mineral.
It also kept on yielding, and even 3 grams give you a lot. Western or Gong Fu work, but I prefer gong fu because it tones down the flavoring. As for western I might go as low as 2 grams. We’ll see.

I’m very happy with what I got and this tea easily exceeds most flavored oolongs I’ve had except Lupicias. I might criticise the strength of the flavor, though I take it was a candy equivalent and am more satisfied. This tea is also very easy to please newbies into tea.

For Mastress Alita’s August prompt – a melon tea

I bought Melon White and Melon Oolong and seem to have utterly lost Melon White. I am wondering if I gave it to someone? But oddly, it is still listed in my cupboard and this one is not so I had to add it.

I think I prefer this one. The melon is more cantaloupe/honeydew rather than watermelon. It is good, and saved me from reaching for a soda as I was stress eating after lunch. (Almond M&M’s.) Ended up finishing the candy before the tea was ready which is probably good as I don’t think they would have made a good pairing….

Sipdown. This tea smells great – very melon and very strong. It would make great potpourri for your office. As a drink, the overpowering flavoring is too much. Sometimes it’s melon-y and tastes good for a couple of steeps. And other times, it’s an overdone perfume of death to my tastebuds. I think this would be very good as an iced tea or cold brew, but I finished this off before I could do that. Not a re-purchase for me.

I wasn’t feeling the melon candy flavor of this tea when I first had it, but I’ve been really getting into it now. It could be that the flavoring has mellowed out after sitting around for a year. I’ve noticed this with all of my Lupicia teas. The flavoring is less intense since opening, which in some cases like this one is good but flavored green teas have gone off slightly. Bumping up the rating for this tea.

Finished off a packet of this at work today. 2 of my coworkers asked me to make them tea, which I was quite excited about. This is one of my favorites, so I was particularly excited to share it.

Such a perfect melon flavor. The green oolong is the perfect base for this flavor.

Lupicia’s sweet green melon flavour is truly unmatched and when I sipped on this relaxing and well rounded mug of tea yesterday morning I just felt at peace. It’s weird how the melon taste itself can be so candy like in flavour but yet I don’t think of this tea as a sweet/sugary tea or even a “candy tea”. The oolong base still comes through really pleasantly and the undertones are floral and fresh. It’s lovely.

A big thank you to Cameron B for sending along some Lupicia samples. Now that they are disappearing from America (minus Hawaii), I’m very appreciative to try some of these blends. I’ve never bought any teas from Lupicia, only sampled here and there from tea boxes and other Steepsterers, but I did love the teas I was able to try. I think Lupicia never fails with excellent, accurate flavoring. This one is amazing. Could it be more melony? No way.. not even if I shoved some actual melon pieces in the cup. It’s fantastic, even with one teaspoon. One teaspoon is definitely enough. And I’m very pleased it isn’t watermelon.. it’s cantaloupe. My favorite melon. It’s hard to taste the oolong, but with accurate melon flavor, I’m fine with that. On the second steep, I was tasting hints of floral which I thought must be the oolong, with still a ton of melon flavor. Third steep: tons of melon again. I could probably keep going. I couldn’t think of a finer base tea for this flavor, but their melon white tea and melon green rooibos is also amazing.
Steep #1 // 1 teaspoon for not quite full mug// 16 minutes after boiling // 2 minute steep
Steep #2 // 12 minutes after boiling // 2 minute steep
Steep #3 // couple minutes after boiling // 3 min

I am a fresh fruit nut. My trip to the grocery store is mainly whatever fresh fruit that arrived. Green guavas, green mangos, sour tamarind… Etc. I literally like every fruit but cantaloupe, ripe papaya (green is good) and honey melon. So as I was sipping it, I wonder why I got this lol. It really tastes like cantaloupe so a cantaloupe lover will love this. I have the melon white tea on the way. Now I’m thinking “Why oh why?” hehe

The tightly rolled green balls had cute light green crystals in it and it had the wonderful aroma of watermelon jolly ranchers. I had my hopes up for watermelon but the light amber liquor had, without a doubt, the distinctive taste of canteloupe with honeydew melon hints. It’s a mild flavor, like many of the Lupicia I’ve tried. I don’t think I should rate this because the way I feel about cantaloupe. I’m going to guess it would be rated highly to those who do.

4g, 200ml, 200°F, 2 steeps, 2 min., 2.5min.

Made it a second time over ice. Delicious. I’ll remember this in the spring…

I, uh… hm. I have a Melon Oolong from Taiwan and I’m not sure if it is actually the same one everyone is raving about, because it doesn’t have melon pieces, it has candy sugar pieces.

Don’t get me wrong. It’s still delicious. But have I been duped?