I stretched this sample out as long as I could, but this is the last of it (tears). This is such an under-sung tea. So good, so natural, so green-oolongish- with-a-kiss-of-mountain-strawberry. I’ll just have to buy some more, but I need to drink some of these other teas first.
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I should be getting a sample of this from Angel at Teavivre. If you rate it at 100% I am excited to try it. It’ll be a couple of weeks though.
Oooo, I hope you like it! I really love it, but I don’t want to give you the wrong expectations, because it’s not like one of those really strong-flavored teas that knock you out of the park. That’s sort of what I like about it, actually. It’s oolong first and foremost and the strawberry is a nice accent — it seems like so many flavored teas are all about the flavoring and you can barely pick out the actual tea underneath it all.
p.s. If I remember correctly, Teavivre wrote their oolong steeping instructions at WAY too high a temperature, and of course that makes the tea astringent and weird. I just did 180-185 F, which is pretty normal for oolongs, and it was great.
They wrote their Da Hong Pao instructions the same way, boiling water but I didn’t brew it like that.
Good thinking! I don’t why they write such mad instructions.
I should be getting a sample of this from Angel at Teavivre. If you rate it at 100% I am excited to try it. It’ll be a couple of weeks though.
Oooo, I hope you like it! I really love it, but I don’t want to give you the wrong expectations, because it’s not like one of those really strong-flavored teas that knock you out of the park. That’s sort of what I like about it, actually. It’s oolong first and foremost and the strawberry is a nice accent — it seems like so many flavored teas are all about the flavoring and you can barely pick out the actual tea underneath it all.
p.s. If I remember correctly, Teavivre wrote their oolong steeping instructions at WAY too high a temperature, and of course that makes the tea astringent and weird. I just did 180-185 F, which is pretty normal for oolongs, and it was great.
They wrote their Da Hong Pao instructions the same way, boiling water but I didn’t brew it like that.
Good thinking! I don’t why they write such mad instructions.