Peach Oolong

Alright so I hate this warm but think I have finally found the only way I will ever enjoy this. Cold steeping. I decided to give this tea one last try and thought maybe cold steeping it over night in the fridge might save me from the taste of this. It worked! The tea is slightly sweet, floral, and peachy with no astringency. I thought about adding sugar to it but there is enough natural sweetness that it tastes fine without. Love it this way.

Taken plain and with a little bit of sugar.
Without sugar the flavor is a deep woody peachy… thing. I was expecting more or a bright oolong to be pared with the peach flavor from a alishan to a monkey picked whatever but this is different. When you take it very hot the peach flavor is full and sweet with the underlying tea flavors giving a base to round the palate.
Very nice. Not was I was expecting but very pleasant.
And then the tea cools off a little… DON’T let the tea cool off too much! It starts getting woody… and the peach starts to fade… and then more wood and more wood and wood and wood wood wood wood.
All it ends up tasting like wood! And not good wood either… old musty wood.
With Sugar?
Add a pinch of sugar and it makes the peach sparkle when taken hot.
And as it cools… still woody… it takes longer to get to brick of wood but it still heads off down that path of why didn’t they pick a different mixing oolong.
… meh
Great at the beginning…

This long awaited cup tastes very similar to the smell, the Oolong is woody and reminds me of a forest while the peach is slightly sweet which gives the Oolong a nice finish. It’s starting to pick up a toasted flavour that over rides the fruitiness. I would say that it definitely tastes like peach but I was hoping it would be a little sweeter or perhaps that the Oolong was not as woody. It’s a nice blend don’t get me wrong but I thought this would have been more of a fresh green Oolong and I’m a little disappointed that it’s not.

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I love this peach oolong. It’s one of the only teas I’ve reordered. There isn’t a whole lot of the peach flavor but enough to make it a tad sweet without an icky aftertaste.. It’s kind of a juicy peach though. If you’re in the mood for a mild fruity oolong this might just be the one you’re looking for.

I just got back from school shopping with my daughter, and I am beat. Tea to the rescue!

Yummy. Peach and dark Taiwanese Oolong tea is a perfect combination. Smooth and delicious. Sweet and juicy. This is just what I needed.

The second in the flavored oolong sampler and sadly, it’s no grapefruit oolong.

The fragrance in the tin is supposed to be peach, I guess, but it smells more generically like a sweet, slightly vanilla, flavoring agent with perhaps a cocoa note. The tea looks pretty much like the base of the grapefruit oolong and I’m guessing they are the same Formosa oolong.

This steeps to a tawny, golden-brownish color and the aroma is like a spread out version of the aroma in the tin.

I should mention that I seem to get peach and apricot flavorings in tea confused sometimes. Often when I’m supposed to taste peach I taste apricot and vice versa. On the way home from work, I was having some of the Vanilla Apricot White from Tazo in a tumbler, and when I had my first sip of this, I honestly thought it tasted exactly like the Tazo. Which is odd, because not only is the flavor supposed to be peach, and not supposed to have vanilla, but the teas are of different types.

I asked the BF who is a big peach fan to taste it and he said it was definitely peach, but weak. I had to explain to him that it was oolong, as I think he was thinking it was black tea. He doesn’t know from oolong.

But it is… I don’t know if I’d say weak, but it doesn’t have a very robust flavor. The grapefruit seemed to bring out the flavor of the tea in a way that this isn’t doing. It’s just sort of a flat, shade of oolong taste with a sweet peachy/apricot flavor on top.

It doesn’t taste bad, it just doesn’t have much of a raison d’etre in my view. I went through three steeps and it was pretty much the same each time.

Sad that after such a nice experience with the grapefruit, this was rather a let down.

This blend is brought to you by steepster! Thank you to TeaEqualsBliss for the inspiration to make a ginger peach tea and thank you to Ricky for giving me some of this as well as white peach which was my only other peach choice.

Ricky gave me exactly 3g. Enough for a perfect 8oz cuppa. I added 1.5g of ginger root. The raw leaves smell slightly of peach jello, but they also do have a distinct tea smell.

The taste is an equal balance of tea w/ hints of peach and ginger, although I do wish the peach was a hint stronger. I’m excited to see what additional steeps will give me and will definitely be buying a sample size of this for my own.

Made this tonight and wasn’t impressed. I even made it in my glass teapot so I could enjoy viewing the leaves unfurl, didn’t see too much unfurling. This tea has less peach flavor that the black peach. Really hardly any peach flavor at all, I could smell the peach, it was peach colored, but no peach taste. Sad face :( I prefer the prettier H&S Pomegranate Oolong to this so far. Have yet to try other oolongs.

Flavor is decent, but unremarkable. Unfortunately, the aroma actually detracts from the experience for me. I don’t know if it’s an artificial peach flavor, or what, but it doesn’t smell like a fresh peach at all to me. More like a peach-flavored Jolly Rancher. Blech.

Prepared in Adagio IngenuiTEA teapot.

Alright, so backlogged from this morning. Had to go to work before I write anything (did I mention I got a job! Receptionist at a vet clinic until I can get into a tech program).

This was really lovely. I was worried about the smell because it comes off as a bit strong and artificial. However, once this is brewed the flavor/smell isn’t as strong and blends really well with the oolong. I like the Taiwanese base tea, the peach goes really well with the woody flavors. Also super easy to brew, I did a second steeping as well and there were no problems with steeping it longer.

Thanks to Shadowfall for this one! Haven’t tried it hot yet, but I cold-brewed it for ~8hr last night and am now enjoying it with lunch.

The dry leaf smells very strongly of peach, with no discernable dark oolong notes. (Cold) Steeped, it still smells of peach, though not quite as strong, and it smells a bit more “tea-like.” Color is a light gold. This tastes great. Fruity and very smooth. It’s sweet enough on its own that I did not add any sugar — but if you like really sweet iced teas, I bet that it would work well with sweetener, too.

I bought this bagged for iced tea, which is very handy. This is delicious iced – sweet, fragrant and complex. Even though I live in the Land of Sweet Tea, I felt this needed no sweetening at all. I used one bag for 1 quart, and resteeped it to make a second quart. The resteep was also excellent.

Woody is a good way to describe it. It really reminds me of some sort of bourbon drink, without the heavy taste of the liquor…actually I just realized I have had something similar, an orange and bourbon iced tea, and this is like it, but much easier to drink and with peach!

I made it iced, making it as normal and letting it cool off before adding a couple ice cubes. It’s really light and refreshing. The peach could definitely be a bit stronger, but it’s not weak enough that it’s hidden.

I will definitely try it hot when it’s not so muggy outside.

Steeping this tea immediately brought back childhood memories of Peaches ‘n Cream oatmeal. While I loved my PnC oatmeal, artificial peach aroma isn’t what I look for in a tea. As for taste, a little woody, a little peach, almost no oolong flavor. Somehow the delicate vegetal taste of oolong has been overwhelmed by the weak peach flavor. Overall, an unremarkable tea. Drinkable, but boring.

I got distracted by unpacking this morning and only managed a sip of this while it was still hot. I ended up drinking it at room temperature with lunch after I remembered that I had left it in the bedroom, whoops!

Hot this really didn’t impress me, I thought the oolong was weak and I hardly tasted the peach at all. It was a slightly different story after it had cooled off and sat around for several hours. I really tasted the peach, it was such a nice sweet flavor that hit the spot after a week of subpar teas. I really wish the oolong would have come through more, this really wasn’t as good as I was hoping it would be, but I consider it perfectly drinkable. It might make a nice iced tea so I’ll have to play with that next.

I wasn’t really thinking when I made this today that normally I use 1 heaping Tablespoon with Adagio teas and only ended up using 2 heaping teaspoons. This would probably be more to my tastes if I had prepared as I normally would have and not following the directions on the package.

I should also mention that this really didn’t resteep well for me. I increased the time by 1 minute for the second steep but it was pretty flavorless. I didn’t get any peach at all and only a hint of oolong.

The scent was nice, and fruity. It was a good tasting tea, but too mild in peach flavour.

Peachy Oolongy goodness. Delightful for icing. Keep in mind the health benefits of oolong :)

My first experience with Adagio Teas.

The leaves were disappointingly fine-cut, but that may be the fact that I’m drinking from one of their 5-cup samples rather than a bigger bag. The ingredients list apricot amongst the usual and expected suspects, and that comes through strongly in the powerful scent of the leaves. It’s very reminiscent of Revolution Tea’s Dragon Eye Oolong, actually, which shouldn’t be surprising given they’re made of similar stock. These leaves smell a lot better and/or stronger than Revolution’s, but look to be of equivalent quality.

The liquor is a gorgeous dark amber, no surprises from a brownish oolong like this. The scent from the leaves is still coming through in full blast, but unfortunately that strength didn’t stick around for the taste; a slight hint of peach and woody tea are all that distinguish it from the hot water in which it’s steeped. It might be better with a bit more honey to flesh out the flavor a bit – I used my typical half-teaspoon.

I probably wouldn’t be so disappointed by the flavor if the leaves hadn’t set the bar so high with their scent. Not a bad tea by any means, but when I want a flavor of this sort I’m sticking to the aforementioned Dragon Eye Oolong.
-Cash

A bit bland and disappointing, but I still found it enjoyable because of my love for peaches. Adding sugar and drinking over ice is my preference.

A haiku for peach oolong:
Peach oolong at work,
Calming my mind, focusing —
What’s next on my list?