Ali Shan Oolong Tea (Taiwan Ali Shan Wu Long)

I had this tea a long time ago and i liked the creamy taste of this ali shan. So i was delighted to receive this package with my first month of the teaclub from jing.

Brewed with one teaspoon of leaf, for about 3min. It gives a nice green color but can’t really tell how it smells (even the dry leafs) because i got a little bit off a cold…

My cold doesn’t affect my taste so i got a bit off luck there. It tastes really creamy just like i remember with hints off some kind off fruit. I probably can get up to 3 or 4 cups from the same leafs, so its a very good oolong! i’m drinking this in the winter tough, last time i had this tea in mid summer. Thinking this is more a tea to drink on warmer days!

small note: brewed this yesterday but with a heaped teaspoon and for 3min. The infusion came out WAY oversteeped and it was not yummy at all!

Yellowish green liquor. Round, creamy nose with a hint of grape. Tastes light and sweet with a subtle hint of just ripe honeydew melon.

Fantastic oolong, with a creamy rich taste. I re-infused 3 times and although the third infusion was a bit weak, it held its own.

I think I must have made a mistake in preparing this tea because it was awful, not at all per description. I prepared it as per the instructions (jing tea produce brewing instructions specific to each tea they sell) – 1tbsp per cup, 3min, nearly boiling water. The dry leaves had a wonderful rich, dark earthy aroma and the infused leaves smelled almost like a green tea but creamier. The infusion however was massively, massively overpowered by tannin. I couldn’t bring myself to finish the small pot I made and it was so bad that I wasn’t tempted to try adjusting times and temperatures with a second infusion. I think that I must have put in quite a lot more than what jing tea considers a tablespoon. In future I think I will use a proper measuring spoon to avoid this kind of mistake.