Milk Oolong from Mandala Tea

Milk Oolong

Tea type
Oolong Tea
Ingredients
Oolong Tea
Flavors
Butter, Butterscotch, Cream, Custard, Gardenias, Grass, Lemon, Lettuce, Milk, Mineral, Mint, Popcorn, Rice Pudding, Seaweed, Sugarcane, Tropical, Vanilla, Floral, Nutty, Bread, Caramel, Coconut, Creamy, Fruity, Toffee, Apricot, Mango, Smooth, Stonefruit, Sweet, Warm Grass, Orchid, Sweet, Vegetal, Rice, Strawberry, Tangy, Green, Sugar, Roasted, Toasted Rice, Bergamot, Candy, Dry Grass, Pineapple, Asparagus, Burnt Sugar, Peas, Brown Sugar, Cotton Candy, Flowers, Berries, Dried Fruit, Green Apple, Tart, Heavy, Peach, Astringent, Autumn Leaf Pile, Honeysuckle, Umami, Honey, Stewed Fruits, Fruit Tree Flowers, Yams
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Caffeine
Medium
Certification
Not available
Edit tea info Last updated by Cameron B.
Average preparation
190 °F / 87 °C 1 min, 15 sec 5 g 9 oz / 262 ml

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  • “This is a free sample that I got from Garret when I ordered some of his wonderful Puers! Thanks Garret! There’s been a discussion on the quality of customer service & the personal treatment we...” Read full tasting note
  • “I need some Mandala love tonight! This natural milk oolong is phenomenal…pure candy. First, the dry smell is all pop corn and coconut milk. It doesn’t render that heavy dairy fragrance scented milk...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Lighter teas and I still have a very tentative accord. I like them…sometimes but there are a few that I just love so much. This is one of them. It’s creamy, nutty, buttery and caramelly. And...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Wow. I’ve only had one other milk oolong but this one just puts it to shame, no contest. I’ve been brewing it gongfu cha style and I’m on the 6th steep but it keeps on giving. The last milk oolong...” Read full tasting note
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From Mandala Tea

We are so excited about this tea and judging by the repeat buys, our customers are too! It possesses a creamy aroma with hints of coconut, hard toffee candy along with the classic floral undertone present in so many high-end Taiwanese oolongs. The producers aromatize high quality leaves from plants that grow in altitudes between 1,600 and 3,200 feet above sea level.

The Fall 2015 crop delivers the dessert-like notes in early infusions and a beautiful, balanced cup. In later steepings aromas of lilac and gardenia begin to move more forward. Production is an artform and those who create it are quite guarded about proprietary steps in processing. Through many tastings, our appreciation for their craft only increases. No “off” aromas and not a trace of artificial or chemical flavor. It is a wonderfully complex tea, sure to please most any tea drinker. And if they weren’t a tea drinker to begin with, they will be after trying this!

We highly recommend doing one rinse of 5-10 seconds (at 195 degrees) and then beginning with 15-20 second infusions for a bit before slowly increasing steeping time. It is not unusual to get 10 to 15 steepings out of this tea when prepared gongfu cha style.

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I have been drinking a lot of pu’er lately and it was time for a break so out came Mandala’s Milk Oolong. Man is this ever a great tea!! I forgot just how excellent this tea really is. The sweet creamy taste is just unbelievable. With this tea in my cupboard, maybe I should take some more pu’er breaks!!
Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 0 min, 15 sec
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TheTeaFairy
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My favourite milk oolong BY FAR! Also love their Colored Species oolong.

awilsondc
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The smell of the unsteeped tea is just unreal! I probably like the smell of the unsteeped tea more than the tea its self! lol, excellent tea however.

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Hot damn. Smells amazing, tastes amazing. Up there with American Tea Room milk oolong, maybe even preferred…
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I received a sample of this with an order. I did not expect to enjoy it much since I had tried a milk oolong before and not cared for it. However, despite expecting to find it not to my taste, this tea has blown me away, and now I wish that I had ordered some. I am delighted and appreciative that I am getting to try a sample of this as I doubt I ever would have picked it up on my own, and it is definitely a gem.

The first steep was exceptional – rich, smooth, and creamy. This is very much one of those teas that stays with you in your mouth and throat after each sip. The second steep surprised me with how different it was, but it was also fantastic – very sweet and fruity. Subsequent steeps (I think I did 6) were all lovely, each one making me want to stop what I was doing and just enjoy the flavours of each sip.

This tea completely charmed me.
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I ordered a few of the more popular teas that I found on this site, and end up with some good teas. The taiwanese do Oolong best…somehow.

I thought that the Chinese started this…well its a nice tea even though it has some sweetness that I am not used to in it. I would drink it with newcomers or folks not used to Oolong yet, as it is easy to like but not the finest.
Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 1 min, 0 sec
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1552 tasting notes

West’n is the best’n if you want a very sweet and creamy experience.

The green is grassier on the gong fu side of the fence.

Exquisite paired with coconut roll cookies from Costco.

This tea is a gateway drug. Will lead to trying other high quality loose leaf teas. Kawaii433 is a pusher.

Flavors: Butter, Butterscotch, Cream, Custard, Gardenias, Grass, Lemon, Lettuce, Milk, Mineral, Mint, Popcorn, Rice Pudding, Seaweed, Sugarcane, Tropical, Vanilla

Preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 5 g 3 OZ / 100 ML
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Kawaii433
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hahaha derk

Kawaii433
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P.S. I love the way you write. :)

Kittenna
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Love this note.

Bluegreen
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Now I really want these Costco cookies. :(

Leafhopper
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This note made me laugh. :)

derk
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Can’t stop the silly when it wells up.

Bluegreen: Getcha some! The Costco here has 2 brands: Sun Tropics is sweeter, Tropical Fields is crispier and lighter but my last bag was rancid :(

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Ok, so I’ve reviewed this one before, but I just want to say that I’ve had this particular pack for over a year now and it’s still just as good as day one. Rich, buttery and creamy, it’s like drinking a buttered biscuit that has a hint of green in it. Just the slightest touch of seaweed, in the best way possible. I loved this then and I love it now. Awesome stuff.

Which brings me to a question…

How the heck do you resteep this stuff without reboiling the water??

Look, I have a confession to make. Before I went on hiatus, I resteep stuff all the dang time. But that’s because I was using ice to cool down the tea as I made it. Just a small cube per cup, but it allowed me to actually drink it without waiting for 20 minutes to cool the mug. (My mouth is very sensitive to heat.)

Now I’m trying to get away from that but every time I make tea, I can never resteep anything because by the time my mug cools, so has the water in my kettle and I know better than to re-boil water. I don’t have a filtered tap anymore so I can’t just keep making fresh water (my supply of filtered water is limited to about one jug at a time). How do you do this?

Anyone that can help me out please let me know. I don’t know if it’s just that I need to suck it up and get that new kettle I’ve been putting off or not. TIA to anyone who helps.

Oh, and again, get this tea. It’s so delish.

Flavors: Bread, Butter, Seaweed

Preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 0 min, 30 sec 1 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML
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Martin Bednář
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Have you trying a thermos? It cools down too, but in much slower speed. I am using quite cheap and not much insulating one, but enough to keep it hot enough.

Mastress Alita
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Huh, I never boil a full kettle, I only boil the amount of water I need for the cup I’ll be drinking. If I’m just having a 12oz mug, I measure out 350ml of water and only boil that. If I finish that cup and want a second, then I measure out another 350ml and do a new boil.

ashmanra
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For what it is worth, I saw a “science” article that said once the water comes to a boil it has lost all the oxygen it is going to lose so it shouldn’t matter if you reboil the same water. My kettle has a hold temp feature but I usually just put as much water as I need so it will heat faster.

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379 tasting notes

Extremely smooth, milky, slightly floral, caramel, coconut, perhaps creamy pineapple, toffee-like notes. It’s complex, deep notes but all mild. Yummy milky aromatics, good for multiple steeps (gongfu cha 8+ infusions) and each steep is delicious. This is a keeper.

Flavors: Butter, Caramel, Coconut, Creamy, Floral, Fruity, Milk, Toffee

Preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 0 min, 15 sec 5 tsp 3 OZ / 100 ML
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Thank you to CrowKettle for the share!

This smells and tastes just like my favourite milk oolong (China milky oolong from Special Teas Inc). The super creamy milk fragrance, some apricot stone fruit notes, undertones of mango and pineapple. It is very rich and decadent-exactly what I want in a milk oolong.

Flavors: Apricot, Creamy, Mango, Milk, Smooth, Stonefruit

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Garret
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It’s a great one! It was our number one selling tea for 2017 and so far, for 2018 as well! I’m glad you enjoyed it. G

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78 tasting notes

My heart currently belongs to oolongs. This was a treat. Sweet, creamy, decadent. I enjoyed several steeps. If you have been wanting to try a milk oolong this is worth trying. Savor & sip down! ahhh…

Flavors: Cream, Milk, Seaweed, Sweet, Warm Grass

Preparation
1 min, 0 sec 2 tsp 16 OZ / 473 ML
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Amazing tea
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