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“My bowl of Matcha disappeared fast! I haven’t had any Oolong tea lately, and I’ve missed it. And this is an excellent Oolong! Very nice, natural honey-like essence to it that presents itself in...” Read full tasting note
“MandyB is soooo good to me! Thanks for this one, too, girlie! This is a neat cup! It’s roasty, toasty, buttery, slippery, Sweet like honey, nutty, it’s just NEAT. I am not sure how I get all of...” Read full tasting note
“First of all I’m not an Oolong expert by any means. That being said this tea is very good. I really can’t explain any of the flavors although I get a touch of honey and fruit. The tea has a...” Read full tasting note
“Smells like a slightly toasted Nilgiri but fortunately it doesn’t have the raw taste I associate with Nilgiris. Instead, this tastes like roasted nori sheets – a little fishy, a little soy...” Read full tasting note
Honeybee is produced in tiny quantities by our dear friend Madan Tamang at his family’s Meghma Tea Estate. At 7,000 feet, it is one of the highest, and most remote, tea growing areas in the world! This gorgeous hand-crafted, oolong tea is made using traditional Taiwanese methods adapted for use in Nepal. After plucking, the leaves are hand rolled, covered with cloth and spread out on a table to dry. When infused, the tea exudes the aroma of native Daphne bholua and Rhododendron plants, with a slight touch of honey and fruit. Honeybee is one of our most popular favorites, and is perfect any time of day. Enjoy hot or iced.
Be sure to check out our exclusive Behind The Cup interview with the producer of this tea. It’s a remarkable story of one man’s passion for oolong tea and for the slowly disappearing Rhododendron forests in his beloved Nepal.
Origin Meghma Estate / Ilam, Nepal
Brewing 1 tsp. / 6oz cup
160 – 180° boiling water
3 minute infusion
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My job keeps me even more busy than my classes did! It looks like during the summer I’ll only have time to log tea on my days off. This was a tea that the lovely Takgoti sent to me. Once again, I’m using my tiny oolong teapot from Samovar for this tasting.
I rinsed the leaves, then got down to some serious oolong business.
The tea is a medium brown color. It smells sugary sweet. The one taste that stands out the most is (obviously) honey, and this is a pretty light tea. It also tastes slightly doughy, yeasty, or “bakey”. It’s a good combination!
This is the second tea I’ve had from The Simple Leaf. I love Dawn, and I like this. Thanks, Takgoti!
I don’t know how to describe this…it’s like roasty flowers, but in a good way. I’m not getting honey from this, sadly. Or maybe it’s just that I’ve had other teas that tasted a lot more like honey than this one without meaning to. But anyway, even though I can’t quite pick out the individual flavors in this, but it’s good. Finish the whole cup off in less than a minute good. Keeping my mind off the huge stack of readings I have to do by tomorrow good.
Oh wait. Shoot. Did I just lose The Game?
Wow! I kept looking for honey and flavorings in the ingredients … there’s just a gentle oolong flavor up front and an afterglow when you swallow that would make Pooh Bear giggle. Nothing but really, really, really good tea!
This isn’t the first time I’ve enjoyed this tea. I have a tendancy to enjoy this one while out at sea… which I will being doing with may more of my teas in the future. Sigh.
This is a lovely tea full of fruity floral notes and a wonderful kiss of honey.
We don’t tend to have many fancy honey onboard but we do pack a basket full of honey bears and this tea requires none of the like. It again is pleasant and while it has a softness of character it doesn’t like to be neglected in the cup longer than 30 minutes. Then the tartness of the tanins kick in but by then you should be well on the way to sipping and putting aside your nightly powerpoints. :)
A fine tea to enjoy with company! I would buy this one again… along with Dawn.
1800th tasting note!
Sipdown no. 13 of 2019 (no. 501 total).
I put the rest of this into a cold brew. I needed a couple of additional spoons to make a full pitcher, so I used the Oolong Sapphire Handunugoda from Dammann Freres.
The saddest part of this sipdown is that it reminds me that The Simple Leaf is no more. While this wasn’t one of my favorite oolongs, I still have some really awesome black teas of theirs that I am hoarding.
It made a very tasty cold tea. Interestingly, I think if I didn’t know it was oolong I would think the cold version is a black tea. Hmmm.
