Backlog. My Verdant order came in! Yay for restocking on favorites like LB! I ordered a sample of this oolong because based on the reviews here on Steepster, it seemed like a tea that would be right up my alley. I neglected to look up any steeping parameters, so I left the tea steeping for about 3 minutes, oops. The resulting tea reminded me a lot of Laoshan Black, but it had a bit of a musty raisin-like taste. That was unexpected and confusing, so I looked up steeping parameters, which turned out to be 30 seconds.
So after my first mug, I resteeped a few times at around 40 seconds or so each. I think that my first long steep kind of drained a lot of the flavors out because the resteeps tasted a bit more like nutty hot water than anything else. Anyway, I’ll probably bring the rest of the sample back home where I can pay more attention to it and steep it right.
I usually like this one steeped for a long time. I do 1.5 tsp for 4-6 mins.