1990 Aged Tieguanyin

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Rating

65 / 100

Calculated from 3 Ratings
Tea type
Oolong Tea
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Ingredients
Oolong Tea Leaves
Flavors
Bitter, Sweet, Spicy, Chocolate, Nutmeg, Autumn Leaf Pile, Bark, Butter, Caramel, Celery, Lettuce, Mineral, Moss, Mushrooms, Musty, Paper, Vanilla, Wet Earth, Wet Wood
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Caffeine
Not available
Certification
Not available
Typical Preparation
Use 5 oz / 139 ml of water
Set water temperature to Boiling
Use 5 g of tea
Steep for 5 min, 0 sec
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5 Tasting Notes View all

“has a sweet flavor for a couple steepings but gets bitter overtime” Read full tasting note
“Light amber, dark orange color. Color of Hungarian dessert wine. Bitter aftertaste on the first steep. Creamy, thick texture. Sweeter and more bitter after the first steeping. Would not recommend,...” Read full tasting note
“Looks like Hungarian Dessert wine.” Read full tasting note
“It’s a slow day at work and I am presently bored out of my mind. I will, therefore, go ahead and clean out the rest of my personal backlog. I am trying to finish off a lot of the samples I have...” Read full tasting note

Description

This limited 1990 harvest of aged Tieguanyin stands out as unique from the others because the leaves were hand-processed by Master Zhang using traditional Oolong Revival style, where one end of leaf is slightly curled and the other is extended. Master Zhang describes the shape as a ‘dragonfly’. These leaves were turned and fluffed three times the normal standard for modern Tieguanyin. The result of this unique processing and the 25 years of age creates a deep shu pu’er-like earthy flavor most similar to the clean fermentation of Xingyang shu pu’ers. We have never tasted anything like this in an oolong. It has the foresty richness of shu pu’er but the sweet caramel aftertaste of oolong.

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