I have been checking my oolong box and found this one. Certainly it will fill sipdown prompt — Your oldest oolong tea even though I don’t count one serving amounts as sipdowns. But let it be a sipdown! (Two prompts in one day, woo!)
Okay, actually it must be my first experience with aged oolong. This oolong was released when I have been 8 years old, maybe I have started with my tea bag wrapper collection back then? I don’t know, when exactly I have started.
It is unigue, because it looks quite green in colour, even though it has been roasted 60%; and overall I wasn’t sure about flavour profile (walnut skin, really?) and overall, you know, it’s old tea feel.
I was pleasantly surprised already when adding leaves (all 5 grams) to the preheated gaiwan. It was somehow herbaceous, with roasted grains, and overall quite indeed complex.
I have been using 90-95°C water in thermos, and it seems it suited this tea well. I didn’t made a rinse, as there wasn’t any dust and following flavours and aromas were noticed (without particular order):
Walnut skin for sure, agian that herbaceous note, grains, nutty, florals, a little of spices (derk says cardamom, could it be), a little grassy (no contamination with Kumano!), olives a bit, or maybe olive oil. The mouthfeel was, again as derk said already, somehow oily and smooth, creamy and mouthcoating.
Some other qualities to mention: relaxing and keeping my sanity “alive”. It’s getting harder and harder to focus on the studies, as I feel, I know this already, but truth is somewhere in between mark A and F, depending on the topic. Also, my brother was having homeoffice today and well, it didn’t helped me too much. It was somehow distracting me, although he didn’t had much MS Teams calls.
PS: derk, thank you for sending this my way!
