1.25tsp for 300mL water @90C, steeped Western-style 3 minutes 45 seconds, drunk bare.
I received a new mug-and-infuser as a gift, so I’ve decided to keep this new infuser for white and oolong teas and keep my stained one (I know, I know, the disgrace!) for black teas.
Hmm, I thought, looking over my tea stash, I’m pretty low on whites and oolongs. Wait, what’s this? Jasmine oolong from DavidsTea?
Sigh. This could be — should be — sublime. Floral oolong with jasmine, two of my favourite things in all of teadom … yet somehow it’s just meh. Sure, there’s a jasmine hit and a noticeable jasmine aroma, but it seems stale. The mouthfeel is slightly creamy, nothing like a milk oolong, but it’s there. Maybe I steeped this just a tiny bit too long. Another 15-30 seconds and I’d have jasmine soap in my cup. I can’t taste anything that says oolong.
This is a competent but dull jasmine-scented tea that should be much, much better. It’s a decent way to introduce someone to jasmine teas, but I won’t bother to buy this one again. I adore jasmine tea and want to be wowed. There’s better jasmine out there to spend my hard-earned money on — the basic jasmine blossom green in bags from Stash, for example.
