Golden Moon Sampler Tea #1:
Wewt! Got my Golden Moon sampler today, and just had to start trying stuff. I have to say this caught my eye as I was looking through all of the samples, but not in a good way. In fact I was highly skeptical of this combination, while also being worried that the result would be too sweet.
Naturally, when I closed my eyes and grabbed a sample (the only way to choose when faced with 31 different teas), the gods of fate decreed that this would be it. Really, I should have known. The tea itself looks very nice, giant curled up tea leaves and the smell is quite potent. I brewed it up and it’s not the disaster that I thought it would be. The caramel creates the illusion of sweetness without actually being sweet and the base oolong is noticeable in the undertone, although to me it seemed like the caramel rendered the oolong characterless, causing it to devolve into Standard Green Tea Taste™.
I’m on the second steeping now, and the oolong and caramel appear to have switched places with the oolong taking center stage and the caramel creeping in at the end. I will freely admit that much of my oolong experience comes from drinking it iced while living in Japan, so perhaps it is my own expectations that are skewed with regards to this, but I still find the base tea to be somewhat lacking in character.
Still, it’s pleasant enough to drink, although I doubt I’ll be getting more.
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The Gods of Fate selected this one for me, too. I plunged my hand into the basket and took the first one I grasped and it’s this. I’m on my first cup and my experience so far accords with your one—it’s basic green for me with some sweetness that I would call caramel or brown sugar.
The Gods of Fate selected this one for me, too. I plunged my hand into the basket and took the first one I grasped and it’s this. I’m on my first cup and my experience so far accords with your one—it’s basic green for me with some sweetness that I would call caramel or brown sugar.