Jia Yang Li Shan Classical High Mountain Jade Oolong Tea Winter 2015

Beautiful Taiwanese high-mountain oolong in exactly the refreshing, buttery style my boyfriend likes. (Note to self: buy some of this for him.) Following his advice, I’m brewing greener oolongs at around 190˚F instead of my usual 195˚F and it worked superbly for this tea.

I’m getting notes of Butter, Crisp mountain water, Fresh spring vegetation, very slight seaweed and umami undertones but it is overall a sweet and not a savoury tea.

Got this as a free sample with my recent Taiwan Sourcing order. This is one excellent oolong tea. It is sweet with virtually no bitterness. Despite being a green oolong it has no grassy or vegetal taste. The sweet note reminded me of white grapes. But that is only an opinion. It has a very fresh taste to it. The Taiwan Sourcing website does not seem to list the flavor notes but white grapes is as close as I can come to a description.

I steeped this eight times in a 120ml gaiwan with 7.1g leaf and 190 degree water. I gave it a 10 second rinse and a 10 minute rest. I steeped it for 5 sec, 5 sec, 7 sec, 10 sec, 15 sec, 20 sec, 25 sec, and 30 sec. This tea would have gone a couple more steeps but I want to move on to something else.