Prosperous Peach Oolong

Another sample from Amanda (thanks!), chosen mostly because it was near the top of my giant swap box when I was brewing things up this evening.

I can’t recall what temperature I brewed it at… maybe 188F?

Anyways, the aroma of this one is pretty weak, although I felt like I used a lot of tea. It is also rather difficult to distinguish – it smells a bit like a nondescript fruit-flavoured green, a bit genmaicha-y. The flavour is not at all what I would have expected – it’s rather cardboardy and maybe a slight bit fruity, although I am getting hints of oolong in the aftertaste. Very faint hints. I’d be hard-pressed to guess what this tea was by tasting it. I think I’m also getting a bit more peach in the aftertaste… but it’s showing up so late it’s nearly the after-aftertaste. I can understand why this one is so poorly rated, although I’m not finding it to be bad, just really, really lacking in flavour. And this is with ample leaf (at least 2 tsp if not more, in about 10 oz.) and a 4-minute infusion.

I think this was my first Teavana experience… didn’t leave a good impression! However, thanks for satisfying my curiousity, Amanda!

I really wanted an oolong after coming home from work today. It was quiet all night and I got a lot of reading for school done (we have 30 books to read in one semester, so I’m trying to pre-read each of them before school starts) – I finished one play, and almost finished another! Aaaand then I have another three I’m in the process of reading, and a whole list to start after that. Oh well. At least my professor has good taste!

I wanted something creamy and smooth and buttery, but unfortunately my oolong stash is really low right now. Digging through samples, I came across this one. It’s labelled as oolong, but it’s honestly more peach and fruit than tea. It might be because the fruit is sticky and coats the tea, but I can hardly find any leaves in the mix!

It has a very light flavor. The smell is kind of buttery and a little bit fruity. The liquor, however, is beautiful. It’s a light pinky-orange, like a peach that’s fuzzy and just ripe enough. It doesn’t taste so much like peach as it does kind of like nectarine or tangerine or orange. I like it more than I expected to, though! It’s not want I wanted… but after drinking it, I think it was what I needed.

Hmm…is it because I burned my tongue trying to drink this from my new tea tumbler? I don’t think this tastes as terrible as the other tasting notes make it sound. I bought it because it was like $10 for 7 ounces of it and the tin when I went to get the 1/2 price tumbler…oh man, I wish you all could come to the original Teavana store. It’s in this super fancy mall that is never crowded. NOBODY ever bothers you if you point out that you’ve found what you were looking for..ahhh. (Also nothing is as awesome there as seeing subtotal: $24.66 and savings: $42.01 hahaha)

Anyway. Peach and oolong together is one of my favorite combinations. This has strawberry and papaya too so it’s a bit sweeter, but I still definitely taste oolong. I like it. Of course, maybe I damaged the taste buds that pick up fruity, sweet flavors more. I like it.

I had such high hopes for this tea. It’s not amazing. I can’t really taste the peach, it really just tastes like a lighter oolong. Meh. What the previous taster said, it tastes vegetal. I don’t hate it. It just doesn’t taste like much.

This is the first sample I will be trying courtesy of Chuckieroy, it is a very peachy smelling tea, which my nose approves of hopefully my taste buds share the same sentiment after it has steeped.

Steeped it takes on more of an Oolong aroma, can definitely smell the tea base in this one. On a side note Iron Goddess of Mercy Oolong is a way better name for Tie Guan Yin tea, I mean that is what it translates to and it would help companies from using different spelling!

Initial taste is a very soft peach flavor followed by a fairly noticeable Oolong aftertaste. The peach flavor as other people have mentioned is pretty light, I do taste it but its not overly powerful, it could use a little more peach in my opinion.

This is the second tea I have had from Teavana, the other one I found to be very light flavor wise as well, but not being a big Teavana guru it could just be that the focus more on the tea base than the flavor.

Overall its certainly not a bad cup of tea, but leaves me craving a nice peachy cup of Davids Long Life Oolong, for peach Oolongs it is pretty much my benchmark tea.

This is the worst tea blend that I have ever had. Too many fruit pieces that lack a good flavor and pretty much no tea. Whenever I make this I always have to add more tea to it since apparently I only paid for dried fruit when I bought it.

Can’t taste the peach, but the oolong taste is pleasant. I think in the least, teavana could have added more peach flavoring. The inside is just slightly flavorless freeze-dried peaches, so that doesn’t impart any flavor to it.

Didn’t really like the vegetal taste of the oolong itself, took away from the overall peachy flavour.

This tea neither lived long nor prospered (in my mouth, at least). I barely tasted the peach at all, it was just like a very, very subtle oolong. I ordered it online from Teavana, and though it was only two ounces it’s such a bulky tea that it filled up an entire three and a half ounce tea container. Most of the volume is made up of little freeze-dried peach bits, which I think is the issue – they just don’t impart a whole lot of flavor.

A subtle tea isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but this one was so blah I kept forgetting what I was drinking entirely.