Today’s afternoon tea comes from Chayo Tea who I’ve been observing through Facebook. I finally placed an order last months for some oolongs since I was running low, but I knew this would be a hard thing to review. For me, oolong is the best variation of tea and it is also one that many places are selling great quality of if you know where and how to look.
This dong ding shows no signs of anything special when you look at it and smell it; this can be said for the brewed liquid as well.
The texture is in the middle which is awesome because that low key walnut that was overly roasted over wood isn’t just a thin dry spell throughout your mouth. The taste has no machine processing notes that I can find which is nice because it tells me through taste that it was roasted either with skills or a lot of observance.
The end notes are dry which kind of sucks, but it happens a lot with roasted oolongs. What is nice about this tea is the mild warmth and the moderate level of qi that comes through after a few steeps.
If there was no texture to it this wouldn’t be all that well, but with the texture and the feels it is a pleasant drink.
p.s. the mouth coating of this is fantastic
