J.C. Absolu Oolong

Tea type
Oolong Tea
Ingredients
Cornflower Petals, Flavors, Goji Berries, Oolong Tea, Safflower Petals
Flavors
Alcohol, Berries, Floral, Astringent, Drying, Peach, Pear, Perfume, Plum, Stonefruit, Flowers, Almond, Goji
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Loose Leaf
Caffeine
Medium
Certification
Vegan
Edit tea info Last updated by Cameron B.
Average preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 2 min, 45 sec 6 g 10 oz / 300 ml

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  • “first time i try an oolong with many other things in it, and well it was ok, but i’m not a fan, it’s weird, or maybe it’s the lotus ? I never tasted or scented lotus, so don’t know if that is what...” Read full tasting note
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  • “TTB Review #32: Curious flavors here. I’m getting almost gin vibes. It certainly has this liquor-y taste to it but mixed with juniper berries and/or flowers. Yes, definitely gin. Would have...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Ah. This smells of summer. Ripe fruits and fancy florals. Farmers markets. The wet aroma is kind of bland. Not inspiring. Dirty water. The pour after a minute reveals fruity notes, slight...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Saved a sample of this from the last TTB. This is an intriguing one. It tastes like white grape juice with floral elements. I don’t usually enjoy oolong, but it’s the perfect base for this flavor...” Read full tasting note
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From THEODOR

Give in to our ‘J.C. Absolu oolong’, a flavored tea with peach, pear and lotus, on a base of Chinese oolong green tea?

A delicate and aromatic blend that you will take pleasure in discovering and rediscovering at the opening of its container.

This loose tea presents different shapes and flavors making it unique. Its rolled tea leaves are colored with dark green shades and decorated with Goji berries, safflower and cornflower petals, adding lighter touches to it.

Your olfactory will distinguish straightaway the perfumes of peach and fruits, which will bewitch your senses even before moving to the tasting of this inescapable creation of the House.

When brewing this vegan blend, you rediscover the intense flavors of peach as well and the floral note escaping from the teacup through a golden yellow to orange beverage.

In your mouth, a nice powdered texture wraps your taste buds and accompany them to a journey of the senses and flavors. Major notes which are expressed in your mouth reminds you of peach and pear, while releasing a light flowery flavor making the whole filled with coolness and lightness.

Accompany your cup of this lotus, pear and peach flavored green tea with some cookies, and try it in iced tea version during summer… the possiblities are infinite to savor this ‘J.C. Absolu Oolong’. Treat yourself!

A pretentious ambition brought this tea to life, the one to blur the porous line between nature and man, offering a creation that nature itself could have delivered.

Peach, first note, symbolizing creation as it stamps it with its Parisian seal.

Lotus flower, presenting the coolness of flavors of morning dew, rain, the depth of this sacred aquatic flower guaranteeing the harmony of the ingredients.
Pear, middle note, naturally present in oolong tea, is there to add the crunchy and juicy of its flesh in its persistance.

Green, blue-green oolong, bringing roundness, delight, fruity notes, with the evidence of a oolong tea.

The most beautiful stories usually start with an encounter. The one of nature and man, of creation and its audience, of inspiration and a gesture, of ‘J.C. Absolu Oolong’ and you…

MAJOR NOTES: Peach, pear, lotus

INGREDIENTS: Tie Guan Yin green Oolong tea (Origin: China) (90,1%), Goji berries, Flavors (Peach, Pear, Lotus), Safflower petals, Cornflower petals.

INFUSION TIME: 2’15 minutes
TEMPERATURE: 167°F (75°C)

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I got a lot of peach, a fair amount of pear and a ton of floral – lotus flowers I guess? Reminds me of a more mellow lavender. I really, really like this tea. It’s light and deliciously sweet and would be a fantastic afternoon tea offering with lemon cookies or almond cookies. On to the wishlist this one goes – and not just for a cool test tube (though I am seriously weak when it comes to resisting good marketing). Thanks, Sil!

Sil

YAY! this was the one that i was in Paris for the launch for…so super glad it’s held up (that was april) I was hoping you’d appreciate it way more than i did :)

Nicole

Now I have to find where to get some! :)

Sil

You might have more luck being in the U.S. But it might require overseas shipping. But if you DO ever place a theodor order, there are a few that are fantastic to have.

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From Sil. :)

I kept like 1/2 tsp back to try. I don’t like pear, so I’m not really expecting much from this tea.

It smells like fuzzy peaches, and pear jelly beans. Uhh…

Hmm. I didn’t steep it very long – maybe 30 seconds. It’s mostly peach I think, but with that icky overripe jelly bean pear flavour in the background.

I did another steep while I stirred my chili. Still really peachy and overripe pear. I think that if you love those flavours, this would be a good tea for you. It is high quality, and I am appreciating the oolong base. However, since the pear is really one of my LEAST favourite flavours, it’s falling flat for me.

But I did get a glass test tube with a cork cap out of the deal. ;)

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C

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It is a pretty dark green leaf Oolong, rolled and mixed with Goji berries from a deep orange-red and flowers. The dry leaf smell is very strong, very fruity and peach -y. I do not feel especially the floral side of the low oxidized Oolong.

I decide to steep this Oolong at 80 ° c and for 4 minutes.

The leaves unfold quite well but still have a great potential for future steeps. The Goji berry is still very orange and energetic!

The infusion smells peach and fruit. The colour is really beautiful with a very warm orange yellow.

Unsurprisingly peach is the first detected aroma, it is powerful, maybe a touch too much. But peach, despite its ingenuous physical, is not a so discreet fruit. Refined but not discreet, it often takes everything out its way.

This peach does not play on the sweet side, which brings a great freshness to the blend.

On the next sips I can now detect very specifically pear notes, very significant. We should not sometimes rush to much to isolate and detect flavours. And I love pear …

However I am quite happy to not really detect lotus as my palate was not thrilled by all the lotus teas that I tried in the past.

The texture is very light, a bit mellow but nothing more.

While cooling, the pear begins to seriously challenge the peach … for my highest pleasure. I think it must be absolutely divine as an iced Oolong tea.

This is a successful tea and I’ll be more than happy to buy some this summer.

Pics of this very lovely tea (liquor and leaves are gorgeous) are available here : https://thevangeliste.wordpress.com/tag/theodor/

Flavors: Peach, Pear

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 4 min, 0 sec
cteresa

yay, for reviews from you! This sounds very interesting, like you I do not like lotus very much, so it sounds interesting.

Sil

i really should try brewing this at home before i share the rest with everyone…

Ysaurella

Yes Sil you should because it was really better at home than at the event and you’ll get much pear :)

Ysaurella

Teresa it is definitively very interesting if I buy a bag of this Oolong I will send you some for sure.

cteresa

Thank you Ysaurella, but do not worry about it – it has pear, which is a note it scares me a bit. But even if perhaps not a tea for me, it sounds fantastically well done and ambitious.

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someone else wrote up a great review of the tea launch that i had the fortune of attending while i was in Paris.

http://madaboutmacarons.com/2015/05/teatime-with-theodor-launch-of-absolu-oolong-tea/

The tea that was launched was this one, and i realised today that i hadn’t logged that i’d had it. I know Ysaurella also had an opportunity to sample it.I’d gone because while at the store, i was told that this was a pear tea that would be launched. What they failed to tell me was that it was also PEACH. Sadly while it was a really nicely blended tea…it was way more peach than pear. Even my other half, upon smelling it, remarked that it smelled entirely of peaches. Still though, if you’re a fan of oolongs and peach – this is a lovely creation from the o dor.

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