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I was so excited to get the wonderful teaware and samplesfrom Tea Ave. It was extremely generous of them! I wonder if they looked at our profiles on Steepter in order to choose the right samples for us. All of mine are the lighter oolongs which I love.

Today working from home I thought I would try this one in the gaiwan. I really like all the info on the back of their samples and with 4 different brewing methods. Very impressive.

The dry leaves looked to be green/black or green and very dark green to me. In the bag I could smell a slight milky aroma.

First brewing – 20 sec at their temp -95C. From the aroma cup I got a light floral aroma that was gone pretty quick. Tea brewed up very light. There were light floral notes with a mildly sweet buttery finish. The wet leaves turned a beautiful dark green

Second brewing – 30 sec. This time I got a different aroma from the aroma cup. I couldn’t quite place it until I checked out the review by Tealizzy. Vanilla was mentioned and I thought Yes, that’s it. But not a strong vanilla. Kind of like a floral vanilla.
This time I got a roasted note from the tea. That’s only when I slurped the tea. When I drank it without the slurp I couldn’t get anything roasted. It was just floral and buttery. I found this interesting since it says on the package it’s an unroasted oolong.

3rd brewing – Aroma is still floral vanilla. Still getting the light roasted buttery flavour but a bit more floral notes coming off the tea.

4th brewing – The tea seems to become more silky in the mouth. Roasted notes are much lighter.

5th brewing – The floral notes were very strong from the aroma cup this time which quickly turned to floral vanilla again. Roasted notes lighter again and the tea became more buttery.

6th brewing – The tea mellows out more on the 6th steeping. Becomes a little less buttery & floral but still good. Not picking up any roasted notes.

This oolong had it all. Buttery, light roast, floral. I really enjoyed it.