Oolong crème de la crème

Fancy!

I had this today, and even managed to re-steep it! (Which I should do more often I know!) Based on the flavour categories, I’d say that this is… scratch that. It’s all butter. Just soft, melty butter. And cream. Did I just pay a ton of money for buttery cream tea?

Now I understand the fuss about milk oolongs. I wouldn’t want to drink this all the time, but it’s a good one for special moments. Maybe I should have bought more than 1oz, but it was $8. Now that I know it’s good maybe I’ll snap it up during a sale! And I’ll try and resteep it at least one more time before I go to bed.

Wow though. Five minutes after my last sip, and I can still taste butter… <3 What if I drank this while I ate popcorn?

Now THIS is a good milk oolong! TastyBrew sent this to me in the surprise package. Thanks, TastyBrew!! This was a perfect choice for me as I’ve been thinking about getting this tea for a long time, but wasn’t sure I wanted to get stuck with 2 oz. if I didn’t like it. (They don’t sell a smaller size).

This tea has all the milky, buttery flavor that I was expecting from a milk oolong, and a nice sweet finish! I do have a sweet tooth, ya know!

Getting this sample from TastyBrew was also perfect timing, as I was already planning on ordering a large amount of blueberry crumble with the latest promotion, so I added this one to the list! Yay!!

The name on this is spot on – It’s so creamy and smooth! Even though it doesn’t necessarily say it’s a milk oolong, it’s very much like it. There’s a little vegetalness (probably not a word, but I’m using it anyway) in the end of the sip. Creamy in the front, vegetal in the back.

This is really lovely. I have a soft spot for good milky oolongs and this is one of the few that I’ll repurchase soon.

I was very excited to try this oolong, partly because I’m just over the moon about milk oolong teas lately :-) I know, I’m like the biggest tea dork ever. This isn’t called a milk oolong specifically but according to the description it should behave like one.

This tea dry looks like most milk oolongs I’ve seen. After infusing, it has some creamy notes and hints of savory vegetal notes but overall has a very strong buttery flavor. Which, I’m not complaining, it is delicious! For not being flavored, this is an incredible flavor actually. To me though, I was hoping for more creaminess and complexity. This is worth trying and I have enough from my sample to have a few more cups another time (thanks Azzrian).

When I’m in the mood for this type of tea, I think I still prefer the creaminess (and the price) of the Quangzhou Milk Oolong by The Whistling Kettle.

This is like drinking melted butter. And I do love butter. Yum.

Loose
Appearance: large oolong kernel, dark olive grey green
Aroma when Dry: sugary sweet, hints of butter notes
After water is first poured: buttery sugar
At end of first steep: buttery, creamy, sugary sweet
Tea liquor:
At end of steep: clear
Staple? Type yes, would buy brand again
Preferred time of day: afternoon, evening
Taste:
At first?: buttery sticky rice
As it cools?: starts to get nutty, popcorn texture, creamy, slightly lingering close, starts to get bodied, brothy
Additives used (milk, honey, sugar etc)? No
Lingers? Yes, buttery rice notes, mostly high in palate

Second Steep(5 min):
At first: buttery, nutty, creamy
As it cools: gets bodied, rich, salty, brothy, buttery notes lighten a bit

Third Steep (5 min):
Light, brothy, nutty

Thanks jessiwrites for this sample :)

This one is quite lovely. A very creamy, buttery oolong.

Now I’m enjoying the second steep of this treasure while contemplating whether I should study of watch Skyfall. Hmm. Daniel Craig does make a compelling case.

Third steep, still delicious.

I absolutely love this stuff. Prepared gongfu style and steeped 10 times. All largely the same tasted and likely could have steeped a few more times. As others said, tea is creamy on the front and slightly vegetal in the back. Tastes sort of fruity throughout. I’m not so versed on oolongs but I absolutely loved this tea.

This is delicious. It’s sweet and nutty and even a little bit buttery? It actually reminds me a lot of Movie Night, which is just kind of blowing my mind. I’m only about halfway through my first cup, and I plan to re-steep a few times to make this last, as I only have a 1oz bag. Sad!

My first Steepster-logged oolong, woo.

Whoa, this smells very sweet, almost grape-y, that specifically sugary element. But—and I’m not at all familiar with oolongs in general so maybe it’s a thing with them?—it has a funky plant-y/vegetal thing going on all throughout too, which seems to intensify as it cools/I drink more, and an almost salty note towards the end of the sip. It is kind of a wonder how it can start out so sweet and end so salty/savory. I can’t decide if I like it or not. Hm. It is very smooth, I’ll give it that. And I find it a marvel that it’s possible to smell salt—not sure I’d ever realized one could before. Oh wait, I’m forgetting salt marshes, duh. (Speaking of…this smells a little like that, yes! Salt and plants and sand!)

It tastes sort of like when you slather salty melted butter all over summer vegetables that contain natural sweetness (say, freshly shucked corn on the cob)—that mix of salt, fat, sugar, and plantiness.

After I finish the cup, a bunch of complex flavors linger. A salted nut element comes through! Fascinating.

It’s bugging me because one of the aftertastes is distinctly something I’ve tried for years to remember the source of, where it’s like salty raw dough with a tinge of…I don’t know a word for it. But it dramatically evokes childhood and I hate that I’ve never been able to figure out what it is (and even stranger, a friend of mine tells me she knows what I’m talking about and can’t put her finger on it either). Like buttery play-doh kind of. Weird and cool that this tea has it in it though!

Smelling the wet leaves after steeping and cooling: all salt marsh and seaweed.

I love milk oolongs and have been wanting to drink them more often, but I haven’t been able to sit down and devote myself to a cup. This afternoon seemed like a very good time to enjoy a new oolong.

Once water has been added, I’m surprised to be smelling such a buttery tea! It’s very much like salted butter with a hint of milk. Sipping… hmm.. this is very tasty. It reminds me very much of chewy milk candies. Not really an authentic milk flavor, but milk + butter nonetheless. It’s very smooth, brothy, with a savory finish. I’m not sure why I wasn’t expecting this to be that great, but it’s very delicious. This isn’t my most favorite milk oolong as it’s more savory/buttery instead of milky/sweet, but I enjoyed this cup. Thank you Jessiwrites for a sample!

Overslept so was in a hurry to get out of the house.

The dry tea looks peculiar, but then I’m finding this true for a lot of Oolongs.
The brew is a light yellow color, and smells a bit sweet. You can definitely taste the creaminess, but I’m not sure if I oversteeped it or steeped it with the wrong temperature, but there was a certain, I don’t know, sourness? Bitter and weird aftertaste.

I will leave this for now, and come back when I’ve time to steep it right…