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“Took a few to open up the ball. first major steep & there is a nutty aroma, but the tea body makes it comes across like a really good black, without the malty taste. Something in the way it...” Read full tasting note
A most unusual oolong produced from tea leaves typically used to produce pu’erh. It has a strong aroma and full taste with nutty and roasted notes coupled with a gentle sweetness.
Produced from leaves which are usually destined for pu’erh cakes, the unique processing as an oolong offers the best of both worlds, by bringing out many of the pu’erh characteristics while rounding out the tea and making it perfect for immediate drinking.
Tasting Notes:
- Strong aroma
- Full taste with nut and roasted notes
- Gentle sweetness
Harvest: Spring 2016
Origin: Near Da Ping Zhang, Jingmai, Yunnan, China
Altitude: 1,500-1,600m
Organic: No
Tea Garden: Natural
Variety: Zhong Xiao Ye Zhong (Small/Medium leaf)
Tree Age: 5 to 70 years old
Sourced: Direct from the producers Yubai and William Osmont
Percentage of price going back to the producer: 40%+
Brewing Advice:
- Heat water to roughly 90°C/194°F
- Use between half to one Dragon Ball per cup/small teapot
- Brew for 15-30 seconds
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Took a few to open up the ball.
first major steep & there is a nutty aroma, but the tea body makes it comes across like a really good black, without the malty taste. Something in the way it feels on the tongue & goes down your throat is 100% like that.
The nutty roasty aroma is really hard to place. Its different from everything else I have tried. Apart from LP’s Coffee & Oolong blend. its a bit like that. Nice.
Taste-wise, if I were to drink this blind I would swear its a black tea, whatever the combo of flavours/body/feel/aroma is, it seems to be in that area. Fruit is ever-so-slight orange or apricots, slightly woodsy but without a malty character. Perhaps a bit of chocolate, it does slightly taste of sheng puerh (of which the leaves are the kind usually used for that)
Its quite soft & rounded, but when pushed an interesting sour note comes out which is covered in a vale of lightly roastedness. It still tastes a bit like LP’s coffee beans & Oolong, but with a different base. Its a bit salty & peanutty.
An interesting tea, one of which my brain puts into the black/red tea zone rather than Puerh or Oolong.
Flavors: Chocolate, Nutty, Orange, Peanut, Salty, Stonefruit, Wood
Sounds fascinating!
If you like red tea I think you would enjoy this. Nice longevity from gong fu too
It is a bit of a chameleon tea, subtly complex while also being simple. If that’s even a thing. I think other people will get different things from it