This was the second flavour of “Meco” milk tea that I picked up from the local Chinese convenience store; I was mostly curious how distinctly this would taste of oolong since it was one of few flavours that had a specific tea base call out in the name, aside from the match. The answer, it turns out, is that it tastes a lot like oolong!
I was surprised how strongly, and nicely, this tasted of oolong – it had that nice buttery/creamy “shortbread” note and floral character of a Baozhong or other greener/lighter Taiwanese oolong; though I’m not actually sure that’s what is used here – it’s just what it tasted like to me. That floral body does really compliment the peach note here, which is also fairly floral and sweet; it doesn’t taste like natural peach but it does taste like a pretty good recreation of natural peach; less candy/over the top than most peach flavours. I actually really wanted to like this one because of how nice the oolong flavour seems to be and the really great pairing of it and the peach – but I think it was almost too good of a green/floral oolong taste because I found the combo of thick and creamy milk with highly floral oolong was really bothering me; I just couldn’t drink it as easily as the Toffee flavour.
Still – in general I was impressed by the blend (even if I didn’t love it) and it makes me REALLY interested in trying more of the flavours offered!