Milk Oolong

This tea was light and silky. I loved the combination of sweet and light, but I don’t know if I appreciate the milk. This is my own taste and should be a negative reflection of the tea. I recommend this for people looking for something different or who particularly like milk. I would pass if you don’t fit into those categories.

My four year old niece came over to visit today and, while she was under the weather (get well soon!) and was super moody, she was also an adorable distraction from the seasonal blah today (feeling very blah). My mom’s out of town cousin also called the family today and reminisced about the whole extended family. Extremely nostalgic and more blah.

I’m glad I dipped into this one in the afternoon because it’s like wrapping up into a luxurious blanket. Also, it steeps up quick (20s) and that’s an added comfort when things got busy today. A most dependent and favourite tea.

Steep Count: 6

I’ve had good milk oolongs and bad oolongs, I’d say this is one of the more flavorful ones I’ve had. The milk taste is very obvious and it has a coconut tinge to it with some mild lilac undertones on the second steep. Smooth and fragrant. I didn’t experiment too much with it, but following vendor instructions yielded excellent results: 1 tsp, steeped at 190 for about a minute. It was good for multiple steeps. I got a very nice uplifting energy from this as well, which was unexpected.

One trait that I value in a tea is that it holds its taste and doesn’t become bitter if I accidentally forget about it. This tea, surprisingly, is not picky at all. There were a couple cups that I left steeping for much longer then I should have and it retained its original taste very well.

The cost of the tea itself is very nice – affordable and good value. I’ve paid much more for much worse. I felt that the money I paid for was well spent and will buy again.

Good tea but quality of Oolong was okay because of blend. Unique taste is lost. Maybe because I brew for longer with less leaf.

The smell from this tea is absolutely incredible. It smells like movie theatre butter popcorn and a deap delicious creaminess; it also smells like matcha pocky. This tea brewed much differently then I would have expected. It tastes very much like that buttery popcorn but with a really bright green top notes. While this tea is not as good as the smell it is still quite tasty.

This is unlike any milk oolong that I have ever had before. The dry leaf smells heavily of butter and toffee and is very pleasant! I brewed it gongfu style, 1 tsp in a 120mL gaiwan at 195F initially for 15 seconds and then adding 10-20 seconds with each subsequent steep. The wet leaf’s butter and toffee scent is more subtle and vegetal notes are more prominent. The tea itself tastes buttery smooth with just a hint of coconut at the end. I was hoping to develop more flavors with subsequent steepings but maybe my tea palette isn’t well-developed yet. Regardless, this is a wonderful tea!

Amazing taste, if you like delicate aftertaste and mild aroma, this tea is for you.

This is my daily go to. Hands down the best milk oolong one can come across. Always need to mention how great it is to purchase from mandala. One of (if not) the best customer experiences with every purchase.

This is an oolong with added aroma of buttery, milky, caramel. The taste is quite strong, and lasts through several steeps. I’ve steeped this up to five times currently, and it started out strong and then the added flavor faded away to reveal the oolong behind it. At the fifth steep the taste reminded me a bit of genmaicha with its sweet, toasted, rice crispy flavor.

The leaf quality is pretty fantastic, with nearly whole leaves that puff up and expand from tightly rolled balls to big slightly mottled leaves over the course of your steeps.

I went for pretty loose qualifications for steeping as I was drinking it mostly at work, and wasn’t paying a huge amount of attention.
It was something like 25 – 30 – 45 – 1m – 2m

I’m not a huge fan of dessert teas (which this definitely is) but it doesn’t taste artificial (it probably isn’t, actually) nor is the sweet taste overpowering.
Over all I wouldn’t drink this tea with cake, or cookies, but I would drink it in place of dessert!
I would recommend this to anyone who loves caramel and butterscotch and who’s looking for a high quality flavored tea.

Bonus! A picture of the leaf :)
http://i.imgur.com/wNgev4H.jpg

My, it’s been a while since I’ve tried a new tea…fortunately, this one doesn’t disappoint! Just opening the package gives off a lovely, baked-treats aroma. The tea itself has that same quality to it, less “milk” than “cookies that have a substantial amount of butter in the recipe”, but not overwhelming. As recommended, this was good for multiple infusions, with the fragrance lingering on and becoming more subtle, bordering on floral. The gradual unfurling of the tea from tightly-rolled pellets to unbelievably large leaves is also quite impressive.

I’ve only had milk oolong once before, in a blend where some coconut pieces were added. Even though it was long ago, this tea seems identical to the base of that blend, which I loved at the time. It’s a light tea, gentle as green oolongs go, and ideal for a long afternoon.