Long Life Oolong

Another wonderful sample from Awkward Soul! I’m really enjoying trying all these new teas.

Right after I poured the hot water over the teaball, I took a good sniff and smelled peaches and grass. Interesting! Once it cooled, the first half of the cup all I tasted was fresh, juicy peaches with a hint of apricot. No almond or orange peel or oolong. Toward the end of the cup I started to taste the earthy, grassy oolong. That was fine, but I preferred the juicy peachy part! :-) I never did get the flavor of almonds or orange peel. Anyway, this was a nice tea to try, and I’d recommend it for stone fruit lovers who like the grassy, earthy taste of oolong.

I was somewhat excited to try this. I do like my oolongs simple with nothing added.. but I figured I might as well try this too.
Dry: Smells pretty peachy apricot wonderful. Yum. Nice pieces of almond and orange peel.
Liquor: Um.. okay ew. For some reason the color of the ‘tea’ has turned into an electric yellowish amber that reminds me of the antiseptic liquid they apply just before surgery to sterilize the area. I hope they didn’t add a dye to this tea under ‘flavouring’. Guh! The peach is definitely present, same with some apricot tones. I sense a little oolong playing around under all the stone fruit tastes. Oh boy..I don’t even like to swirl my cup to try and cool down the tea as all I see against the white of the mug is antiseptic wash >.< Aftertaste is a little juicy.. nice. I think this one tastes best luke warm (have yet to try it cold). It’s a lot more juicy and I could definitely see myself incorporating this into a skinny peachy summer drink..
It’s good.

Another DavidsTea sample thanks to DaisyChubb! Thanks for sending me the last of your packet of this to try, you are too kind! This one smells peachy peachy peachy dry. It’s not what I would consider an absolutely natural smelling aroma—it’s not what most peaches smell like when bitten into—but it’s still a very pleasant one. The slightly rolled green oolong leaves are mostly buried in a relatively fine powder of flower petals, with some obvious fruit and almond chunks in the mix. Steeped, the aroma of the peach has transformed into a more natural profile, like the smell of baked peaches. This mental picture is helped by the buttery oolong scent that has joined it. The liquor is murky with an odd color that looks reddish amber in the middle but intense yellow on the edges. I find it hard to believe that there isn’t also saffron in this mix, but it doesn’t show up in the ingredients.

I’m unsure if I got a good tea:extras ratio here because there was so much flower petal powder in the bag, I just dumped the rest of it into my steeping basket. Still, it’s a nicely flavored tea, with different flavors that are distinct but also work together pretty well. That tart, fruity peach flavor is there of course, along with an almondy nuttiness. I don’t get as much buttery flavor as I did scent, and the green, fresh notes I would expect from the oolong are a bit suppressed here. There is a kind of rich, almost savory note in the back of the aftertaste at times… which also makes me think of saffron. Overall a pretty tasty cup of tea, especially for anyone who’s a huge peach fan.

Update: I tried a second steep of this after rinsing some of the “yellow” off and got a cup that actually looked like tea (clear orangey-yellow), and tasted like tart, fresh peaches with a lightly vegetal, greenish accompaniment. I do think I prefer it in this second steep.

This is a very good, earthy, natural tasting flavored tea. The peach and apricot flavors blend very well with the tea base. I really like the hint of citrus. Can’t wait to have this one again.

Oh yes. Anything I can smell summer in automatically has an advantage. I know that’s probably not right, but what can I say? I live for summer.
This is another I got from our “tea party” on Friday. I’m already excited for next Friday haha.

Yum, yum. I’m off to breakfast and I’ll finish this cup on the way. I’ll add more on the taste when I’m back!

Had some of this for breakfast. The smell is amazingly peachy, and after shaking the tin I found I got a good even mix of the different components in my teapot. Steeping, it continued to smell good and peachy, with a yellow liquor. Reminded me of the sun that never comes around anymore.

The smell of the leaves after I poured off the tea was actually quite bitter, so I’m worried that I had the water too hot, but the taste is still delicious. Sort of fresh and peachy, with a mild tea background. I will do a second steep later on and see how that goes.

All that said, this is a nice tea. It doesn’t taste nearly as good as it should ot justify the $18 I paid for 100 g of it. My tin was barely 3/4 full, and it just really isn’t amazing enough to justify a re-buy. I think I would rather have the more full flavours of zing me, for much less cost. Still lovely though, especially if you don’t have to worry about cost.

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This is one tea I LOVE. Why it isn’t in my own cupboard I have no idea, I’ll blame temporary insanity and memory loss everytime I’m in the store. My mom, smart woman, does have this at home however, so anytime I’m visiting I end up stealing her leaves and devouring as much of this as I can drink. I’m a sucker for a good peach, and this is exactly that. The oolong adds to the delightfulness rather than overpowering it. Iced or hot, this is an amazing tea that always brings a smile to my face.

Not a fan, it smells like peach cigars and tastes a little like it too. I was excited to try a peach tea, i wont let this tea dystroy my future od trying diffrent peach teas. But not this one. I also would like to try diffrent oolong’s. overall thus tea is pretty gross, i have a little sample left but its going in the garbage unless anyone would like to try drinking a peach cigar.

I still think they need to change the name to Life Long Oolong, but eh that’s just me! This however is by far my current favorite Oolong to drink it just tastes great, will certainly keep tons on hand.

Dry this tea has a pleasant peach and apricot smell that is honestly fantastic, it is also a tin full of colors with all the fruit pieces, the tea leaves and safflower pieces, all topped off with pieces of white almonds. Steeping the tea will release a pleasant peach aroma throughout the room.

The final brew is golden yellow in color and peachy in aroma. It has a smooth creamy taste accompanied by a nice peach flavor, followed up with a sweet after taste. Only downside is this tea is only good for one infusion, I tried a second infusion on a cup last night and it was certainly not as nice to drink.

It was a swap from queenoftarts. Thanks for the generous portion! I love good oolong tea thus namegot me ccurious. When I brewed it (just using teapot, not using gaiwan) not the typical way I brew oolong since looking at the tea leaf it seemed there are more other stuffs rather than oolong itself. Also it seemed pretty red – so it got me confused a bit. However when I brewed it it smellef nice. Very mild taste and somewhat fruity scent.

Final verdict: I liked it. It is not for people who wants to try classic oolong but work for people who wants some twist- or simply beginner for oolong tea.

So my good, tea-loving, work friend saw that I was having a bad day and immediately handed me a bag of this Long Life Oolong, which I have now secretly renamed: Lifeline Oolong.

I’m really new to talking about tea. I am certainly trying to learn all the fancy terms and understand what (in my opinion) makes a good tea and how to describe what I am tasting, etcertera.

But until then, I will say this about Long Life Oolong: it’s fruity and green tasting and it picked me up when I was feeling blue. It is a cheery tea, which I was skeptical about drinking on a coldish December day, but it really did remind me a bit of summer and that’s what drinking tea is about for me. An escape.

So I recommend this as a depression rescue tea and will definitely drink it again when I need rescuing.

Enjoy!

I went to one of the biggest DT in my city today(Toronto) and I REALLY wanted to get Southern Belle iced… nope out of stalk and apparently discontinued-tears. They may still have some left at my local DT, I think I saw it the other day… ANYWAYS, this tea is second in line for my “iced” list, if you know what I mean. I find it funny how the worker suggested this one to me- honey, i know what i want (:- and the workers at my local DT know that well (They say Im their #1 customer). So yes… peach! Oh did I ever taste the peach! Very fruity and nice,sort of rememded my of Happy Kombucha. I do wish to try this one hot though, it feels like I wont get the real “tea experience” if I dont have it hot right? But I will most likely re-purchase this tea, maybe in a blue oolong tin? I would most definately drink this peach on the beach (;

Mmmmm, that is all I can say… Mmmmm!

Want some? so peachy, so apricoty, so Mmmmmm!

Mmmmmm… Go get your own!!

This is the best DavidsTea Blend I’ve had yet! It looks and smells great, very peachy but not at all artificial.

The oolong with the almond I’m guessing makes this tea really buttery and nice to drink, the peach taste is a lot less overpowering than it smell actually. It’s rather nice to look at in the tin, full of fruit pieces, orange peel and almonds and all. The more you steep it, the smoother the taste becomes, and the second infusion i would say is almost just as good as the first one. The buttery taste of this tea really makes it awesome, I really like the almonds in it and there could probably be more of them instead of orange peel and it would be even better. I’m glad the oolong tea used wasn’t the dark one they used for Forbidden Fruit, I like the lighter ones more.

This tea is rather expensive but you can re-steep it many times which is a good thing, the fruit pieces however start disintegrating though so you may end up with a mushy mess at the bottom. The best part it all, is that buttery peach aftertaste that really lingers in your mouth long after you finished the cup which can lead to a sublime moment!

Don’t I get sick of trying out teas that I inevitably will not like, you ask?
Apparently not. I always try to prove myself wrong by trying new things. Sometimes it’s a win, and more often than not, I have to tell myself “I told you so…”

Well, there was a lot of raving about this oolong. In my defense, I am a huge oolong fan. When done well, an oolong is amazing because of its distinct flavor and because of its resteepability. But it has peaches. I don’t like fruity teas. So what wins?!?!

Apparently the oolong lost out big time because I did not like this tea at all. Very similar to my sentiments on the Forbidden Fruit, this oolong falls short of…well, tasting like an oolong.

It has a strong peachy taste to it, that’s almost candied and a bit shocking to my system, to be honest. And while I wait for the oolong taste to kick in, a bit of a nutty aftertaste joins in instead. The oolong tastes weak to me. I’ve played around with the steeping method in terms of time and quantity, but I seem to get the same results.

It tastes like a candied peach tea with a very VERY weak tea-base that’s almost green-tea-esque.

Compared to other oolongs, I probably like this one the least. Doesn’t do anything for me. Even sweetened, I found the peachy flavor to be almost artificial.

Next.

I like this tea iced. I only cold steeped it so I don’t think it brought enough of the flavours out but it wasn’t bad, considering I was working all day. I like the peachiness, could live without the nuttiness.

Yet another tiny tin from their Sweet Indulgences set – I’m working through these rather methodically.

So much fruit! Tons of tiny peach pieces and some flowery red bits. A tad difficult to figure out which bits are the tea leaves, but I think I got some in there. ;) Smells like a real peach.

Taste-wise: still smells a lot like peach when brewed, but the peach flavor isn’t all up in your face. The oolong tempers it back from being a fruit-splosion. I think this would be great cold-brewed or iced – the peach taste is actually quite subtle, so some may wish to add a bit of sweet to bring it out.

I’m not sure why I keep referring this as ‘Life Long Oolong’ but.. it sounds catchy I suppose. Anyways, this little treat came in with my teawares from DAVIDs as a sampler and after deliberating on it for a while, I cracked down and bought it.

It was my first Oolong tea and I found it not to be bad at all. It needed a touch of honey just to give it a little edge but other than that I found it very delightful. It made me like Oolongs! Though I’m not sure, when compared to a few other Oolongs, if I would buy an entire tin of it. It really is good but it may sit on my shelf for a long time when up against an even tastier concoction. Still, I would recommend a sample.

This tea is light and refreshing. First I taste apricot with a hint of almonds. Then as you swallow it taste lightly floral, and peach and apricot together. I kind of taste something spicy in there too but not sure what… I love the dance between apricot and peach. One second I taste peach the other apricot. Mmm with each taste I like it more ad more.

I just don’t love this one as much as everyone else. As far as oolongs go I think it’s just ok. I am trying to get through my tin of it so that I can get some The Skinny, Milk Oolong, and Vanilla Orchid.

I think it has a nice peachy taste, but it doesn’t seem as smooth or as fresh as other oolongs I like.