Tag: oolong tea

No comments

2020 Spring Shan Lin Xi High Mountain Oolong from Floating Leaves Tea

  By ,

Typically every tea season Floating Leaves Tea does blind tastings with all the new High Mountain oolongs. This year obviously group tastings cannot be a thing. A number of my friends reported Floating Leaves Tea’s 2020 Spring Shan Lin Xi was amazing this year, so I went in on 2oz. It was an easy sell as I tend to prefer Shan Lin Xi out of all the High Mountain oolongs. Leaf and Steeping Method The leaves smell creamy and buttery with a slight vegetal scent. I used 1 gram of leaf per 15ml, gongfu style with boiling water. Floating Leaves… Continue reading, hoot!

No comments

2020 Spring Alishan Meishan District High Mountain Oolong from Tillerman Tea

  By ,

The Alishan for today is from Tillerman Tea. This Alishan is a light roasted, Qing Xin Cultivar, High Mountain oolong from the Meishan (Plum Mountain) District of Chaiyi County, Taiwan. Leaf and Steeping Method Alishan Meishan District has a candied sweet floral aroma. I used around 1 gram of leaf per 15ml vessel size, steeped in boiling water. Again, I usually use a gaiwan but I’m too lazy to find one, so this fast pour teapot is my tea steeping vessel today. Steeped up, the leaves are more honeyed and floral. Tasting of Tillerman Tea’s 2020 Spring Alishan Meishan District… Continue reading, hoot!

No comments

2020 Alishan High Mountain Jin Xuan from Eco-Cha

  By ,

Our oolong for today is from Eco-Cha – a Summer 2020 Alishan High Mountain Jin Xuan from Ruifeng, Taiwan. Leaf and Steeping Method Alishan Jin Xuan has a strong grassy buttery scent with some marigolds thrown in. As usual, I used 1 gram of per 15ml of vessel size, gongfu steeped in boiling water. After a rinse, the scent of the leaves moves to hot buttered grass and floral. Yes, I usually brew in gaiwan but today I couldn’t be bothered to get up and locate a gaiwan. Tasting of Eco-Cha’s Summer 2020 Alishan High Mountain Jin Xuan First and… Continue reading, hoot!

No comments

HER-CHA Tea Discovery Collection Review

  By

HER-CHA is a tea startup from California that specializes in premium teas that are packed in small serving tins to preserve their freshness. In the HER-CHA line up are six teas – Green Oolong, Dark Oolong, Black, Wild White, Green, and Ripe Puer. Each tin has 1 to 2 servings, comfortably to do a small teapot brewed western style, or a 100ml gongfu style. The Discovery Collection contains one of each tea in their selection. The packing of this tea collection is well put together and of high quality, ensuring the leaves are kept intact. It is packaged perfectly for… Continue reading, hoot!

No comments

2020 Bi Luo Chun Green and Competition Grade Wenshan Baozhong from Eco-Cha

  By ,

Today is an interesting selection of Eco-Cha teas that were featured in previous months of their monthly tea club. I always enjoy getting teas from their club as they are of high quality or interesting teas to drink. Eco-Cha‘s Spring 2020 Bi Luo Chun Green Tea I haven’t drunk a Bi Luo Chun for a long time, actually, I cannot remember the last time I’ve had this green tea. Eco-Cha’s Bi Luo Chun is a spring 2020 tea grown in Taiwan. The dry leaf smells like simply like pine nuts. Instructions say 1 gram of leaf per 40ml of vessel… Continue reading, hoot!

No comments

Lo-Shan Hong Shui Oolong from Floating Leaves Tea

  By ,

A few months back Floating Leaves Tea did a live stream tea tasting for their hong shui GABA oolong on their Facebook / Instagram. Prior to the live session, you can purchase the teas to drink with them – perfect for those not in Seattle or in quarantine. Floating Leaves Tea sent me the sampler, but I ended up drinking mine sometime later as I was sick. I then learned it is really hard to drink back to back multiple hong shuis, especially Floating Leaves Tea’s hong shuis, as they have high body feels. Either way, from that blind tasting… Continue reading, hoot!

No comments

Drinking ALL of 2020 February White2Tea club at Once

  By ,

In my last post, I reviewed the 2020 February White2tea club. Sometimes with these mega reviews I don’t use the whole sample so I don’t caffeine overload, but I don’t have enough for individual gongfu sessions. The day after I finished my review, I took the yancha leftovers, mixed them together, and steeped it. The teas in 2020 February club mix are Jin Guan Yin, Stone Sparrow, Shin Jin Gui, Stone Milk, Shui Xian, OBSX, and No2 Rou Gui. All seven teas combined, the leaves smell of a crazy mix of roast, soap, bread, and fruit. Since this is a bonus round, I’m doing my more casual… Continue reading, hoot!

No comments

2020 February White2tea Club feat. Oolong Sample Fest

  By ,

The 2020 February White2Tea club is a big sample haul of their oolongs. All these oolongs are from 2019 so they have neatly rested from roasting. The oolongs featured in this monthly tea box are Jin Guan Yin, Stone Sparrow, Shin Jin Gui, Stone Milk, Shui Xian, OBSX, and No2 Rou Gui, all of which can be found at White2Tea. As seen on the handout, these teas should be fine without a rinse, so that is what I did. For all teas, I used 1 gram of leaf per 15ml of vessel size, gongfu steeped in boiling water with no… Continue reading, hoot!

No comments

19 Year Old Lishan High Mountain Laocha from Tributary Teas

  By ,

Among the other Taiwanese High Mountain teas, Tributary Teas has an aged 19 year old Lishan. Not often do I come across aged high mountain teas, so trying this Lisahn Laocha will be a treat. My sample package says 18 years as I got this tea in 2019. Leaf and Steeping Method Leaf smells like roast and cherry wood. I used 1 gram of leaf per 15ml of vessel size, gongfu steeped in boiling water. Steeped up, the leaves have a creamy nutty scent. Tasting of Tributary Tea’s Lishan High Mountain Laocha First, Second, Third, and Fourth Infusion: Lishan High… Continue reading, hoot!

No comments

Aged Pomelo Oolong from Wang Family Tea

  By ,

Wang Family Tea’s Aged Pomelo Oolong took the 2019 Northwest Tea Festival by storm! It is a Shan Lin Xi (Qingxin cultivar) High Mountain oolong stuffed into a Pomelo then aged for 8 years, though now maybe 9 years as it is 2020. Leaf and Steeping Instructions The leaf is very fragrantly orange despite my crap storage treatment. At the tea festival, Wang Family Tea put a tea sample in a paper box, which I left in for months, so it has been exposed to more airflow than optimal. For steeping ratio, I used 1 gram of leaf per 15ml… Continue reading, hoot!