Jade Oolong

Very nice and smoooooooth taste to this one. Suprisingly sweet yet delicate. I love to watch these leaves unfurl in my diffuser, and they withstand at least 4-5 good steeps for me. I can definitely taste the jade-ness in this tea and its really good! These big leaves are gorgeous!

wow. don’t let the numbers fool you. this tea has total personality. I always brew it with yixing tea pots, and it is good for the long haul of multiple brews. the liquor has a medium body, syrupy to start out, lightening up as you brew many times. floral and fruit notes abound as this soft yet distinct tea invigorates your senses.

Careful not to over steep this tea. The oolong flavor, while lightly smokey isn’t to over bearing for an inexperienced oolong drinker. I really love watching the leaves open up over the course of a couple steeps and would recommend a second steep. Classic taste.

I really like this. Going straight to my shopping list. More . . .

Very nice light oolong, not as good as wuyi or pouchong, this one has a more floral quality almost a woodiness. Its not my favorite green oolong but it isn’t bad and the multiple resteeps bring out different aspects of the floral notes.

I prepare this multiple times (gonfu style) with many short steepings. Each cup is very sweet, it has a flowery sweetness almost like honey. I’ve also prepared it with the recommended time on the package, but multiple short steeps is really the way to go. The tea takes on a whole new flavor that is much more enjoyable. This oolong is probably one of my favorites from Adagio.

Been a while, steepster. This is one of my favorite oolongs. I am now going on my 4th steeping, and it is still going strong. Very robust, almost smokey flavor, but subtle hints of flowery and even a little fruity notes. Very good tea morning, noon, and night.

Great all day light tea. I like this because it is a great idle tea for my blogging time in front of the computer. Taste is light but not weak. Use leaves 4-5 times when i brew this.

I can get 4-5 good steeps out of this before it starts getting noticeably weak, and the flavor is great. I actually like this a little bit more than the Iron Goddess. Wonderful blend at a wonderful price.

Another sample packet from Adagio, containing 3.5 g of rolled leaves that look exactly like Adagio’s picture of it. I steeped the whole 3.5g as directed, in 8 oz 180°F alpine spring water for 5 min, in a stainless infusion basket, after which the leaves were partly unfurled and the soup was tinted light yellow-green. There was a pleasing delicate, floral aroma. The tea tasted sweet, grassy, vegetal, distinctly floral without being powdery with notes of butter, and I even got a quick note of green bean as someone else mentioned! A pleasant aftertaste of orchidy floralness remained, and the first infusion vanished quickly.

For the re-steep, I took the water to 190°F and again steeped for 5 min., by which point the olive green leaves had fully unfurled, revealing many large, intact single leaves and a few leaf/bud sets and a couple stems. The liquor was medium yellow-green with a substantially vegetal aroma that was lightly floral. Overall, although this second infusion was nice to savor, it was more generically vegetal and buttery, though floral notes still filled my sinuses in the long finish of each mouthful. In the final, cool dregs, the butteriness was more pronounced.

For the third infusion (re-steep) I took the water to 200°F, and again steeped for 5 min. Mild vegetal aroma. Soft buttery vegetal flavor in the golden yellow tea, with barely detectable floral notes. This infusion was satisfying as well, but definitively more subtle in its taste. I won’t push for a 4th infusion. Overall, I find no fault or defects, and will rate as 80, and recommend as a nice now-and-then cuppa.