Tie Guan Yin “Iron Goddess” Oolong Tea

Tea type
Oolong Tea
Ingredients
Oolong Tea Leaves
Flavors
Astringent, Butter, Citrus, Coriander, Floral, Grass, Mineral, Orchid, Tangy, Vegetal, Pleasantly Sour, Sour, Menthol, Sweet, Vanilla, Gardenias, Green, Marshmallow, Roasted, Sugar, Jasmine, Peas, Creamy, Spinach, Honeysuckle, Earth, Popcorn, Vegetable Broth, Cream, Apricot, Flowers, Fruity, Sweet, Warm Grass, Smooth, Cake, Cucumber, Melon, Orchids
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Loose Leaf
Caffeine
Medium
Certification
Not available
Edit tea info Last updated by TeaVivre
Average preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 2 min, 15 sec 5 g 7 oz / 213 ml

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  • “I drank myself half silly with this one all day yesterday at work. Six (12oz) mugs I think – kind of lost track. I came in this morning and the leaf was still lush and green. I thought what the...” Read full tasting note
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  • “First of all, I’m going to start off by getting a little personal. For about three and a half years now, I’ve been battling severe addiction and depression. But for the past few weeks, I’ve been...” Read full tasting note
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  • “My second sampling of TEAVIVRE samples arrived today!!! So excited! Thank you Angel and TEAVIVRE so much for your generosity!! This was my first sample to try. I used only 2tsp of leaves instead...” Read full tasting note
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  • “A really great tea! I was feeling down and so this is my late night pick-me-up. I really appreciate how much information was given on this tea package. I think that it was nice to have exact...” Read full tasting note
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Origin: Anxi, Fujian, China

Ingredients: Jade colored leaves (hand made into small, rolled up)

Taste: Delightfully fresh floral taste and aroma

Brew: 3-4 teaspoons for 8oz of water. Brew at 212 ºF (100 ºC) for 1 to 3 minutes (exact time depends on your taste – a longer time will give the tea a stronger taste and color)

Health Benefits: Tie Guan Yin tea is the premium form of Chinese Oolong teas. Being lightly fermented, these teas are high amino acids, vitamins, polyphenols and antioxidants. These combine into a tea that reduces cholesterol and helps reduce hardening of the arteries, and so can help reduce risks of heart attacks. The antioxidants it contains can also help guard against some forms of cancer, and also help fight the affects of aging and bacterial infections.

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122 Tasting Notes

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61 tasting notes

Very green and verdant with the beautiful characteristic taste of TGY – milky, nutty, leafy, sweet. I shared this with my mother who is completely unfamiliar with loose leaf teas, oolongs, or tea in general. She enjoyed it, which I mark as a big win since it is not like anything she knows she likes. I could drink this over and over again.

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42 tasting notes

My nephew and I enjoyed the second Teavivre sample of this yesterday. He gave up after a few steeps. I think he liked yesterday’s tea better than today but for me this was the favorite yet. The third steep, in particular, was creamy and smooth and really yummy. Most of the steeps were quite short (5-10 seconds).

Flavors: Creamy, Floral, Spinach

Preparation
Boiling 0 min, 15 sec 8 g 4 OZ / 120 ML

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485 tasting notes

I think I finally got the parameters right for this one. I used about 3.5g leaf in a 100mL gaiwan with 185f water. The smell of the dry leaves was so floral that I knew there had to be some way to get that in the flavor. This worked pretty well, with early steeps being intensely floral, and the flavor getting more nasal and “green” as I went. Like steeped out flower stems or something. I don’t know if this is what it would actually taste like, but the descriptor of chlorophyll came to mind.

Flavors: Floral, Green, Mineral

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 0 min, 15 sec 3 g 3 OZ / 100 ML
Rasseru

I always get a chlorophyll idea in my head, and also how I imagine more darker chlorophyll to taste in some purple leaf oolong, a weird sharper note

Matu

To me it’s like a plant taste…but not floral or vegetal – just green. Like how I imagine it’d taste if I just started chewing on a green leaf. Maybe not as bitter as that would be, but a bit of a sharp flavor for sure.

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261 tasting notes

My god, is this really Tie Guan Yin? I just brewed the 2015 Teavivre Tie Guan Yin and if you had asked me in a blind tasting, I would have sworn this was a Jin Xuan Oolong. The leaves are green, not darker roasted like traditional Tieguanyins I’ve tasted, and it smells super buttery and fresh like popcorn. (Update: I now realise after a bit more tea experience that this is what non-roasted Tieguanyins usually taste like.)

It’s also strange that this green oolong is brewed at 212˚F.

1st infusion: Beautiful, buttery, fragrant, clear.

2nd infusion: Still smells and tastes buttery, but subtle and a tad bitter.

3rd and 4th infusions: As the Chinese saying goes, 三道四道是精华。No bitterness this time, just a subtle floral butteriness.

Flavors: Butter, Popcorn

Preparation
Boiling 0 min, 30 sec 3 g 3 OZ / 88 ML

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672 tasting notes

This came in the Teavivre sample box. It’s the first Tie Guan Yin I’ve had that I liked. It does have a floral aspect, but it’s nothing cloying, and leans toward a light sweet pea. Has some vegetal notes. The Tie Guan Yins I had before tasted like they were on the darker end of the spectrum, but this one seems very green and fresh.

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 5 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML

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183 tasting notes

The leaves are a neatlooking contrast of dark and light, saturated greens. Smells vegetal and like rock hot spring water Taste is the same, with the vegetal notes in the foreground.

Preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 2 min, 0 sec

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Thank you, Liquid Proust! This is a good Tie Guan Yin that comes pretty close to one of my favorites. Orchid, grass, some cream, and a dash of butter is what I get with almost every steep, more so in the second. There is a little bit of sweetness if you drink it very carefully. It also has a really solid mouth feel for me until the last steep. I got three out of this one doing western style. Pretty good, and solid. Just one level too light for me. I’d recommend to almost anyone though.

Flavors: Butter, Cream, Grass, Orchid, Vegetal

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 3 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 7 OZ / 207 ML

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892 tasting notes

Enjoyed this gongfu style :3 I did 10 steeps. I love this tea. It’s sweet, floral, fruity, and smooth. One of my favorite oolongs :)

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111 tasting notes

Sometimes (not often) I feel bad for constantly drinking JUST Teavivre’s teas, and not giving other companies a chance.

But then I make a cup of tea and that thought goes away.

This is a tea I’ve never had before, so I was excited to try this. There was something appealing about the name of “Iron Goddess.” My feminist sensibilities thought I should give this one a chance.

Floral notes are deep in this tea, but they are soft and are more undertones than overtones or highlights. There is a vegetal, slightly astringent (mildly so) after-taste. I also taste something smoky—but this is an extremely slight taste, it’s barely there. The mouthfeel is smooth, and the flavours of the tea only come out more as the tea gets colder. I do not know how I’d like it iced, but I don’t mind it lukewarm for sure.

If you like Oolong, and you like floral teas, you’ll appreciate this one!

Preparation
190 °F / 87 °C 3 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 14 OZ / 414 ML

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Thank you to Angel at TeaVivre for this generous sample!

My husband and I love to travel on the weekends, but this winter in an effort to save money for our upcoming summer road trip we decided to hang around home. It has been a lot of fun. My little one has gotten to do her first set of swim lessons, we have made a tradition of grilling meat from the Local Pig on Saturday night and Saturday afternoon has turned into a lazy book and and now that I am drinking tea again, tea time. This is the tea this afternoon.

While looking around on the Teavivre site I finally found the brewing instructions. It sure beats trying to read the tiny lettering on the package! This one said 7g in 3oz Gaiwan. Seems like a lot but, in the tea went. I brewed this one up per the steeping instructions. Despite my qaiwan overflowing with leaf, this turned out wonderful. I get hints of floral, some buttery feel on the tongue and the end part of the sip is somewhat cucumber flavor. I do not get any hints of bitterness. This is going to be a great tea for the afternoon. For the price point I am pretty excited about this one. Thank you again Teavivre for letting me sample this one!

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