Coconut Oolong

I’ve been in a coconut and melon FRENZY with teas lately. Something about those flavors make clear summer days feel closer. This tea is deliciously rich and creamy. The lemongrass adds a lightness to the taste that is much appreciated. I’ll have to try it with milk. This will most likely become the mainstay coconut tea in my stash.

A hot sample in store. I was expecting coconut and orchid oolong flavours, but I couldn’t taste the oolong at all actually. The dominant note was ginger, with a hint of creamy coconut under it. Very odd.

There’s coconut, which is delicious. Then there’s toasted coconut, which is out of this world. This tea is all about toasted coconut. Amazing aroma — there’s no doubt you’re about to be hit with coconut. Sweet, perfect toasted coconut flavor. It’s balanced really well with the oolong. Bold, but doesn’t overpower the oolong. I like to sweeten this with agave nectar. This is my favorite coconut oolong.

This blend tasted natural and well-balanced to me (rather than artificial). But, I have other coconut blends. And I’m still in love with my Long Life Oolong. So, I think I’ll skip adding this one to my cupboard for now. It’s a very nice tea though. April in the 2014 Tea of the Month Collection.

Yum!

Had this last night before bed. It smells kind of vegetal while steeping, but tastes smooth and sweet. I think the coconut is adding the sweetness. Not a real punch of flavor, but a nice tea to relax with.

Day #23 of tea! I was excited to try this one, as I’m looking for another coconut version to try (I’m not as crazy over Cocomint Cream as most people seem to be), and this one was delicious. Nice and creamy on its own, but I added a little milk for an extra oomph. Very tasty on a cold morning – I think I’d also like to try this as a latte.

And sipdown. This particular bag was not well mixed, so some cups were better than others. Ending on a particularly lemongrass note.

This has been moved into our sipdown pile so we will actually enjoy it before the coconut goes off instead of hoarding it for the rest of forever XD. It is my steep-to-death tea for today, 2 minutes for the first steep and 4 for the second. The third will get 6 minutes and there may or may not be a fourth steep, depends if De wants it when they get home from work. I love the longer steeps because it gives me the time to sit on my newly renovated kitchen floor and cuddle our youngest cat, JiJi (short for Darjeeling). He loves kitchen cuddles, silly little thing.

Anyway, the first steep of this was light a creamy and smooth, absolutely lovely. The second steep has less coconut and more oolong, which isn’t a bad thing!

I love this tea.

When I got home from work, I decided I wanted tea but I knew I didn’t want anything too heavy which meant black tea was out. Honestly, if I had a more manageable cupboard, I probably would have reached for Butiki’s Butterscotch & Hazelnut Mocha Candies again. Instead, I grabbed the Pineapple Angel Food Cake Shou Mei that has been sitting in my cupboard forever and hasn’t been touched and then I chose to splurge and open my bag of Vanilla Orchid that I have been saving since March and after all that, I decided I should at least try something new or work on a sipdown so I brewed up some of this as well.

My worry with this is that the oolong flavor would stand out the most. Luckily that wasn’t the case at all. This has a delicious coconut flavor to it – one that is sweet and true to the nut. However, the lemongrass also shines, particularly at the end of the sip. The flavor is really reminiscent of Coco-Lemon Thai tbh and the oolong base works wonderfully to highlight the flavors. I can actually see myself getting more of this in the future so that’s awesome.

Add extra coconut shavings for an even coconutier taste.