93
drank Ali Shan Oolong by IDEStea
485 tasting notes

Really enjoyed this tea. Crisp and sweet sugarcane flavor with floral accents in the early steeps. A few steeps in and the crispness dissipated some while the floral flavors became more prominent. Interestingly, after a couple more steeps, the sugarcane flavor came back, but without the sharper crisp feeling. Final couple steeps were lightly sweet and floral. Body was excellent and creamy throughout the session. Beautifully sweet tea, this.

Flavors: Floral, Sugarcane, Sweet

Preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 0 min, 15 sec 3 g 3 OZ / 100 ML
Daylon R Thomas

What’s the website address? I’m shopping for oolongs currently…

Matu

Daylon, IDES is out of business. It was a kind of weird thing – dude popped up on reddit giving away lots of free samples and then had a teaclub where you could get like 75% off for the first month, allowing many ppl (myself included) to get around 250g of pretty nice oolong for about $15 shipped. Then he just disappeared shortly after.

Daylon R Thomas

Looks like I need to join the reddit group to get myself some oolong. If there is any available from another vendor.

Matu

Maybe lol. I don’t really go on /r/tea too often anymore, but there are random companies that decide to give away tea at times. Haven’t seen anything like IDES since then tho.

Login or sign up to leave a comment.

People who liked this

Comments

Daylon R Thomas

What’s the website address? I’m shopping for oolongs currently…

Matu

Daylon, IDES is out of business. It was a kind of weird thing – dude popped up on reddit giving away lots of free samples and then had a teaclub where you could get like 75% off for the first month, allowing many ppl (myself included) to get around 250g of pretty nice oolong for about $15 shipped. Then he just disappeared shortly after.

Daylon R Thomas

Looks like I need to join the reddit group to get myself some oolong. If there is any available from another vendor.

Matu

Maybe lol. I don’t really go on /r/tea too often anymore, but there are random companies that decide to give away tea at times. Haven’t seen anything like IDES since then tho.

Login or sign up to leave a comment.

Profile

Bio

A bit about myself: 22 years old, college grad (Double major in Anthropology and History). I plan to make a career of archaeology and hopefully travel (much of) the world in my days.

I enjoy many things aside from tea, including gaming, mixing cocktails, reading, watching anime, and painting miniatures.

My favorite type of tea is sheng puerh. Particularly younger stuff, if only because I haven’t gotten the chance to taste much of anything aged. I also really like oolong (Taiwanese, Wuyi, Dancong, etc.) and Japanese Green Teas. I do also enjoy most other kinds of tea, but they aren’t what I normally buy. I’m not a huge fan of shou puerh, black tea, or flavored blends, with few exceptions.

I really like interacting with the tea community, so if you ever want to talk or swap teas or anything, feel free to shoot me a message or something. Follow me and I’ll follow you back. Probably ;)

You might also see me on reddit as /u/Matuhg

Location

Michigan

Following These People

Moderator Tools

Mark as Spammer