Formosa Oolong #8

I really liked the slightly sweet taste – I usually drink a different brand’s oolong, but I really enjoyed this. Full-flavor with a lovely woody scent and deep color. My new favorite!

Lovely toasty flavor, and a light mouth feel. It took a few sips for the astringency and leafy notes to come in, and they added nice complexity.

Really awesome stuff. I love how mellow, smooth, buttery, and creamy it is. I always have it with about 1 teaspoon of white sugar per 8 ounces. Would be great even if it had more sugar in it.

Too roasted for my tastes. There’s really nothing about it I like.

Very woody, almost spicy, but I’m still getting some sweet notes.

It’s kind of like drinking a buttery campfire, baking the ash into a cinnamon scone, and then shoving them in your mouth at the exact same second. And I mean that in the best way possible, it’s actually quite satisfying.

Basic dark oolong with earthy and roasty flavors. As usual, all teas from Adagio are high quality, very fresh and ship super-fast. This is a good everyday oolong any oolong lover should keep in their pantry. Good tea for the money.

One of my favs. Started me on my love for oolongs. Very Smooth.

I’ve had some mediocre teas recently (my bad!), I think this one tops it off. It really does not do justice to the great oolongs that come out of Taiwan.

This is definitely a tea that you will like or hate. The pungent aroma is something of a surprise, and has a definite air of tobacco about it. The liquor is a deep rich brown, almost more of what you would expect from a black than an oolong. The brew retains the hint of tobacco in the aroma, but the taste is easy and quite smooth on the palate. A great little workhorse tea in my opinion.

A pleasant enough tea. A little woody and slightly astringent but I may have steeped a little too long.

Smooth, light – the perfect oolong. One scant teaspoon will do it, and I was able to steep it twice with the second time being only slightly more astringent.

Considering it’s perfect and affordable, I’ll probably stick with this as my oolong.

Great taste, don’t have to steep it too terribly hot so its good any time of the day. Don’t oversteep it or it will taste bitter and woody.

the tea really opens up after the 3rd brewing. the first two seem kind of wooden, and then get spicy and nutty after that.

A moderate oolong that lacks anything of interest. It was pleasant enough that I plan on finishing the tin, but I am not sure I would bother with it again.

This is a very nice tea, very earthy but mellow. I love it!

Second steep. Mellower than the first.

My first loose leaf oolong and it’s better than expected! The dried tea is very earthy and musky. However, it came out tasting a lot lighter and smoother than I would have guessed. The flavors are earthy, woody and a bit grassy. If you’re not too familiar with oolongs (like me), you should give this a try. I enjoyed it.

A nice cup of hot tea to end the day.

Love this tea. I’ve had other Oolong’s but this is by far my favorite (so far).

Used my new ingenuiTea (which is way cool) with this tea. Light and pleasantly sweet. Still good after three infusions! In fact, I think I’ll try a fourth…:)