Singbulli Oolong Darjeeling is an organic oolong from the Singbulli tea estate. This tea is sold by Single Origin Teas, online tea seller based in Texas.
I’ve never had a Darjeeling Oolong so I’m quite excited to try this tea!
Dry Leaf
Wow beautiful tea! Singbulli Oolong Darjeeling looks close to an Oriental Beauty with colours of deep brown, silver, reddish brown and golds.
Steeping Instructions
I decided to go with my personal go-to western oolong steeping method for this tea – 190F for 2.5 minutes.
The colour of Singbulli Oolong Darjeeling came out a clear deep gold with a light floral scent.
Tasting of Single Origin Teas’ Singbulli Oolong Darjeeling
Sips in delicate and crisp with a fruity sweet notes, kinda like not fully ripe wine grapes. There is an interesting warm nuttyness in the background that I would associate with another moderate oxidized oolongs. Some sips I get a wave of floral, dancing with the grape taste, other sips I get a woodsy musty flavor similar to a Darjeeling. Singbulli Oolong Darjeeling finishes off quite dry – 5/10 on the Astringency Meter – the dryness sticks to the roof of my mouth, dries the back of my throat and lingers, quite a contrast from the delicate first sip.
I’d say this tea has parallels with white wine for the grape and dryness, but this is coming from someone who doesn’t drink wine (maybe once a year). Compared to a Darjeeling, is it pretty similar but nuttyier.
Second Infusion: I did a 3.5 minute resteep. The flavor was pretty sweet, like green grapes and floral, however at the end of the sip the astringency jumped to an 8/10 – mega dry! Super dry! If you don’t mind dry (or doctor the tea with milk) it’s a good steeping, otherwise pass.
Comments
If you love Darjeeling and don’t mind some dryness, be sure to check out Single Origin Teas’ Singbulli Oolong Darjeeling. I found this oolong to be quite different than other oolongs for the elements of darjeeling in it, but the nuttyness of an dong ding oolong.
Singbulli Oolong Darjeeling is also a nice, light afternoon tea – I can see it being great with some fruit and light crispy butter cookies.
(tea provided for review)
