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Taiwan Oriental Beauty (Bai Hao) Oolong Tea from Teavivre

Pureleaf drank Taiwan Oriental Beauty (Bai Hao) Oolong Tea by Teavivre

Thank you Angel at Teavivre for this sample!

This Oriental Beauty is very complex. There are so many different taste and flavors that I really like! It’s smooth and chocolaty. Slightly sweet and a little malty. Buttery, with a small amount of saltiness at times.

The amber colored liquid and cocoa-like aroma, become much much mellow on the 2nd steeping. There is very little of the creamier and thicker taste, more of sheng pu’erh – in the way of a light hay flavor.

2012-08-04 00:20:45 -0400

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ashmanra 2012-08-04 12:46:56 -0400

I just ordered this last week and it is on its way! Liberteas had sent me a sample and it was too good to resist.

Pureleaf 2012-08-04 13:05:42 -0400

Good choice ashmanra! It’s hard to believe how nicely different this tea is to other oolongs (as if you can single all other oolongs into one class:). Truth being known, I had 8 cups of this tea back-to-back. Each were very enjoyable!

wiicked 2012-08-04 13:31:13 -0400

Did you do the blog thing?

ashmanra 2012-08-04 16:03:12 -0400

Wiicked: not sure if you were asking me or Pureleaf, but I have gotten samples from Teavivre about four times over the salt eight months or so, just not this particular tea! But Liberteas sent me some in a swap and I loved it! Now, if you were addressing Pureleaf, it is his turn to answer! :)

wiicked 2012-08-04 16:27:24 -0400

Nice!
My samples are on the way right now!

ashmanra 2012-08-04 17:17:08 -0400

wiicked: I think you are going to love them! Mine have all been great. I end up ordering about half of what gets sent, and friends who try it with me have wanted it, too.

wiicked 2012-08-04 17:24:22 -0400

That’s awesome
Have you ever ordered a puerh tuocha or cake?
And how big are te samples?

ashmanra 2012-08-04 18:28:04 -0400

I have ordered lots of their puerh, and have more on the way right now! LOL! I think in the mini tuocha samples there were about five to seven to a pouch? I had to order two packages of it because my non-tea drinking son and his girlfriend liked it so much that they wanted their own. Then I got a sample of Mengku Palace loose puerh and swooned over it. I have that on the way! The other types of tea probably have enough in the sample to make two or three 22 ounce pots at least, and that isn’t counting resteeps.

wiicked 2012-08-04 18:58:35 -0400

Haha nice!!!

Amber 2012-08-07 17:52:22 -0400

thanks for following me!

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