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GABA Oolong from Floating Leaves Tea

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Lately, GABA teas have been popping up a lot and are trying to be trendy. I don’t write about GABA oolong much these days, as the more I drank them, the more I disliked them as they all have a distinct bad sour taste to me. Most recently I’ve discovered there are a few vendors that have found the good GABA teas. Floating Leaves Tea’s GABA Oolong is one of the special ones. Leaf and Steeping Method The leaf smells golden raisins. The rolls are dark browns and plums. I used 1 gram of leaf per 15ml of vessel size,… Continue reading, hoot!

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2019 March White2tea Club feat. Milan Dancong Comparison and 2015 Gongmei

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2019 March White2Tea Club time! The March White2Tea Club contains two Milan Dancong oolongs – No Roast and 26 hour Roast, plus a bonus new 2015 Gongmei white tea. The Milan Dancongs are as a learning experience to compare what roast does to tea, whereas the Gongmei is a sample of a tea for purchase. 2019 March White2Tea Club Milan Dancongs No Roast Milan Dancong The No Roast Milan Dancong smells like floral cheerios. There are some long green leaves here. These leaves seem really poofy, I filled the gaiwan and it worked out to 1 gram per 15ml of… Continue reading, hoot!

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Lychee Purple Leaf, Turmeric Mango Green, and Citrus Sonata Oolong from Artful Tea

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Today’s review is a selection of flavoured tea blends from Artful Tea. Artful Tea sells flavoured and unflavored loose leaf teas. The teas I’m trying today are in sampler packaging, which they fill a tea bag filter with around 5-7grams of tea, enough for a large 12oz serving steeped western style. Artful Tea’s Lychee Purple Leaf Tea Lychee Purple Leaf Tea is a blend of Kenyan Purple Leaf tea, apple, pineapple, lemon peel, currants and lychee flavour. The dry leaf smells like blueberries and lychee. I recall Purple Leaf being quite sensitive to temperature, so I used 175F for around… Continue reading, hoot!

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2018 Carbolic Soap Oolong from White2Tea

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Today’s review is White2Tea’s 2018 Carbolic Soap Oolong. This is a 200 gram cake of high-quality Milan Dancong from Guangdong province, China. A full cake is $208 and a 25 gram sample for $30. I kept forgetting I had a sample of this, its existence, then where I put my sample. I got reminded about the dancong as I recently made boxed Angel Food cake and discovered it has detergent in it to make it fluff (well I said soap first and got corrected). I might as well follow up some detergent cake with soap tea. Leaf and Steeping Method… Continue reading, hoot!

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Sacred Lily Oolong and White Peony from Pique Tea

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Today we are sampling some Tea Crystals from Pique Tea. I’ve reviewed them in the past and they have since come out with some new teas – Sacred Lily Oolong and White Peony. These organic teas are freshly picked and cold brewed crystalized processed within 60 days. Pique Tea goes another step forward and their teas are triple toxin screened for pesticides, metals, and mold. Their teas are packaged into single serving packets to make around an 8oz/240ml/1 cup serving. If you are a long time reader, you know this tea drinker is a hooty tea snoot that is especially… Continue reading, hoot!

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2018 Winter Shan Lin Xi and Cuifeng Oolong from Tillerman Tea

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Today’s review is some winter Taiwanese oolongs from Tillerman Tea – Shan Lin Xi and Cuifeng. Both teas I tried gongfu style, steeped at 1 gram of leaf per 15ml of vessel size in boiling water. Tillerman Tea’s 2018 Winter Shan Lin Xi Shan Lin Xi’s dry leaf smells buttery sweet and a bit floral. While I was doing the rinse, I could smell the leaves giving off a spinachy fragrance. First and Second Infusion: 2018 Winter Shan Lin Xi sips in real thick, so it is like drinking melted butter. The notes are mostly savory of fresh buttery spinach with… Continue reading, hoot!

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January 2019 White2Tea Club feat. Iron Arhat, Baisuixiang, Stone Milk, Dahongpao, Spice Flower, OBSX, and No.2 Rougui

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The January 2019 White2Tea club is 7 samples of their new oolongs – Iron Arhat, Baisuixiang, Stone Milk, Dahongpao, Spice Flower, OBSX, and No.2 Rougui. Last White2tea clubs like this I drank them all side by side, but I felt I lost more intricacies of each tea. That said, I’m drinking these teas one by one. I attempted to drink all the yanchas in one day but got five out of seven finished on day one, then I drank the final two expensive a few days after. For all these teas, I filled the gaiwan with leaf and gongfu steeped… Continue reading, hoot!

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Golden Monkey Black and Drunken Concubine Tieguanyin Oolong from Silk Road Teas

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Today’s review is a double review of Silk Road Teas’ Golden Monkey Black and Drunken Concubine Zui Gui Tieguanyin Oolong. I jumped at the chance to review something from Silk Road Teas as I’ve heard many good things about them. Golden Monkey Jin Hou Black Tea First up is Golden Monkey, aka Jin Hou, a Fujian black tea harvested in March 2018. I seem to not review much black tea these days. Vendors seem happy to send oolong and puer my way, and I haven’t been buying any black tea as my black tea stash is large and ageing. Leaf and… Continue reading, hoot!

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January 2019 Eco-Cha Club feat. Long Feng Xia High Mountain Oolong

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This is January 2019 club box from the Eco-Cha tea of the month subscription. I have reviewed their main line of teas years back.  If you are in looking for the gems, that is in their exclusive and limited quantity club teas. Unboxing the Eco-Cha Club, you get 75 grams of tea, and a special surprise (in our case, some sort of teapot scooper). Members are also provided with a PDF info sheet and video tea tasting by the Eco-Cha owner. If you prepay 6 months you get a clay teapot, at 12 months you get a teapot and bamboo… Continue reading, hoot!

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November 2018 White2Tea Club feat. Dark Roast Tieguanyin

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For the November 2018 White2tea club, everyone got 50 grams of the new Dark Roast Tieguanyin and three 7-8gram Mengku orbs. The Dark Roast Tieguanyin is available for purchase on the site…. or not, it’s sold out already, maybe it’ll come back? This month certainly felt poor value. 50 grams of the Dark Roast is $14.50, and the club is $30 a month. My guess is those Mengku orbs are good stuff to make up for it. That and really, if you want value, you aren’t in any monthly tea clubs, especially since small packet shipping prices are rising. I… Continue reading, hoot!