Bao Zhong

A really lovely Oolong – sweet and floral, but with enough of a vegetative tone to it to keep it from tasting too flowery. Fantastic aroma to this tea… I can’t seem to stop holding the cup up to my nose just to sniff it… it’s intoxicating.

Lovely, soft, delicious … it is familiar, and yet quite different. I like it.

I wasn’t blown away by this tea simply because I’ve not gotten into greens much. Beautifiul gold color and nice floral aroma. The drink was like fresh cut grass-wet grass,very green. There was a crisp water chesnut tone in there with a melon sweetness as well. I think the floral was more smell than taste. The astringency was low, but enough to make it not shine for me. By the third steep it had lost alot and only had simpler oolong notes to remain. Even though less grassy is a plus for me I opted to move on to another oolong so I can crank out another note this morn.

This is the third weekend that I skipped a night’s sleep due to the third shift adjustment to first shift for the weekend. This forty year old body is not digging it.

So I talked to Incindiare earlier and she reminded me of my heavy metal background as a yoot(youth). So I blew the dust off of some old grunge for this tasting. Not metal, but as close as I can get at 5:00am with no sleep.

tune-Alice In Chains=Love,Hate,Love/Nutshell Mad Season=Long Gone Day Pearl Jam=Garden/Release Soundgarden=Gun/4th Of July/ Nirvana unplugged=Where Did You Sleep Last Night

I was pleasantly surprised by this tea. Very nice Taiwanese Oolong with vibrant notes of lilac and fresh greens. Great for multiple steepings. A great tea for the price, and although it does not have many of the other-worldly qualities that some of the highest quality Tieguanyin’s have, it is still a very nice and floral tea. I would compare it most to Rishi’s Jade Oolong. Wonderful!

Smells and tastes like a combo of lilacs, vanilla, green veggies, and butter. Very interesting! Very clean! Quite good, indeed!

Greenish yellow liquor smells fruity (melon?), with lilacs and a hint of wet grass. Creamy mouth feel. Tastes mildly sweet, vanilla, butter, rice with a floral aftertaste (lilacs again). Very little astringency and a hint of bitterness. Later steepings are grassier and less aromatic.

The floral aroma and flavor remind me of a bouquet of spring flowers. Leaves are lightly oxidized and very pleasant to watch as they unfurl. This tea seems like an intermediary between a green and an oolong instead of passing as a “true” oolong. After a quick rinse in my gaiwan, I can get between 5-6 steepings before the flavor begins to fade. A keeper.

This tea has really grown on me. The first couple of brews you get a beautiful yellow liquor with a slightly flowery aroma. Sweet, light-tasting, and delicate with a pleasant aftertaste. I have only been able to get about three good infusions out of the tea though.

It’s a solid oolong, but I’m just… not a fan. Something about the flavor is “murky”.

Amazing tea. Use less then you think when steeping.

Great tea! lots of steepings Great Value!