1991 Da Ye Aged Oolong

Tea type
Oolong Tea
Ingredients
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Flavors
Bark, Butter, Cinnamon, Dill, Smoke, Wood, Caramel, Roasted, Vinegar, Alcohol, Red Wine, Scotch
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Average preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 3 min, 30 sec 9 oz / 266 ml

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  • “I’m a big fan of aged oolongs and this tea in particular is a really special tea. 22 years ago seems like such a long time. I looked through some of my old photo books to see what I was like 22...” Read full tasting note
  • “Last week end was Canada’s Thanksgiving. I had a lot to be thankful for at the end of the day and this aged oolong was just another reason. I’m a fan of roasted aged oolongs, and to me it is no...” Read full tasting note
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  • “This is another tea from the awesome box that TheTeaFairy sent me. What do I think of this one? I normally like aged oolongs. I normally like dark roasted oolongs – I should like this one. And I...” Read full tasting note
  • “I’m honored to get to try such a rare and unusual tea. In 1991 I was 10 years old, heh. It’s funny to think that this tea has been around that long! This tastes unlike any other oolong I’ve...” Read full tasting note
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From Butiki Teas

Our 1991 Da Ye Aged Oolong is a 22 year old spring harvested tea from Nantou, Taiwan. This rare tea is oxidized between 20-30% and charcoal roasted. Da Ye Oolong is uncommon today since this tea has a lower production volume. Our 1991 Da Ye Aged Oolong is sweeter and creamier than our 2003 Reserve Four Season Oolong. Notes of roasted chestnut, bark, fresh butter, honey suckle, and cinnamon can be detected. Due to the age of this tea, some mineral notes may also be detected. This tea has a silky mouth feel and is sweet and buttery.

Ingredients: Taiwanese Oolong Tea

Recommended Brew Time: 4 minutes
Recommended Amount: 1 1/2 teaspoons of tea for 8oz of water
Recommended Temperature: 180 F

For more information, please visit: www.butikiteas.com.

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592 tasting notes

Let me preface this with a note that I’m not the best at distinguishing specific tastes and such, so bear with me. So, after falling in love with the 2003 Four Seasons, I decided to break open my other straight oolong from my Butiki order. Thanks to my handy dandy new variable temperature kettle, I was able to steep as directed on the package (180 F, ~4 min). The first time steeping, I was still pretty sleepy from waking up earlier than usual, so my thoughts were limited to “yummy leaf juice.” But it actually did taste very leafy, if that makes any sense at all.

Later in the day, when I was much more awake, I resteeped the tea and really started getting a hold of more concrete flavors than before. My initial thought was that it smelled and tasted like raisins. So I went to the Butiki website to see what was listed there, and I could slowly pick apart the buttery, honey, and mineral notes as well. I’m not sure that I’m getting much chestnut, but it could totally just be that it’s there and I just can’t identify it as such.

Anyway, it was a very delicious oolong. I wasn’t as over the moon about it as the 2003 Four Seasons, but I can definitely appreciate the clean flavors and warmth of this cup. I will definitely treasure what I have left of this!

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I received this in a swap from Cameron B. Thank you!

This is one I have been wanting to try for awhile. I really like dark oolongs. One of the first oolongs I tried was a roasted oolong that had a similar flavor profile. At first I was really turned off by the smell, but soon I grew to crave the taste of the tea. This tea reminds me of that first experience with the roasted oolong.

This is roasty with hints of caramel. It is very very smooth. I was able to keep resteeping this tea for quite awhile. I will have to write more on this after I have another cup or two. Thank you again for the chance to try this wonderful tea.

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This is a beautiful tea and very unique. Initially it tastes/smells like your average roasted tea, but it’s not quite as smokey/roasted as you’d expect. This is a plus for me since I’m pretty iffy about roasted teas—most make me feel nauseous. The sweetness was surprising to me, as was the buttery taste. Towards the end I get a sweet crisp fresh, juicy cooling minerally taste that is unexpected and addicting. I feel like a cow must feel when munching on the most delicious sweet grass (but it’s not vegetal at all to me). Ooh, I can place it now—it reminds me of persimmons or maybe nectarines and I can taste the peachiness others are talking about.

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The gateway tea to smokey teas.
Pleasant aroma of a dark smokiness, the kind of smoky smell that comes from burning wet wood.
It’s VERY smooth. No astringency whatsoever. No grassiness. Just a good, deep-forest taste. Has tiny hints of caramel, black cherry, and cinnamon, but you really have to pay attention.
Leaves your mouth feeling silky and smooth. Has a small, faint, roasted marshmallow aftertaste in the back of the throat that is very pleasant.
This is a great tea for the middle of winter when all you want is a warm fireplace but there’s none to be had.
This is a smokey tea, but not overly so. It is wonderfully balanced and subtle. I would recommend this even to people who say they don’t like smokey tea.

Flavors: Caramel, Cinnamon, Smoke, Wood

Preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 3 min, 45 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML

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Well my 75th review should be for something special, and this tea is certainly that. This was certainly an interesting blast from the past. I was 6 when this tea was produced.

I had the honor of sharing this sample with a friend and we both had a very similar impression of the flavor, so I feel confident in relaying our observations.

The first steep yielded a very distinct dill flavor. In fact it was almost briny like pickle brine! Whaaaaat? There were of course the expected roasted and leafy qualities of oolong, but a pickle-like flavor stood out to us the most.

On the second infusion some more nuances emerged, sort of a toasted sesame flavor and a light sweetness. It has been a while since we enjoyed this tea together and I am going off of notes here that I recently found lying around, so I didn’t really log down my reactions to any later steepings, but I remember each infusion getting milder and more on the sweet roasty side while the dill and brine flavors backed off.

It was really interesting to me, also strange seeing how much different people’s impressions of it were here on Steepster. I’d have never described it with some of the notes some others did, but I guess we all taste and remember tastes differently. :3

Flavors: Dill, Roasted, Vinegar

Roswell Strange

I realize this is an old review; but I recently had this tea and I, too, tasted a very distinct dill flavour!

Lion

Hooray! You have saved me many moments of wondering if I’m the only one who ever tastes dill in really roasted teas! I pick up that note in them sometimes, but others don’t usually. It’s weird!

Roswell Strange

It’s probably also worth noting that in someone else’s review they mentioned tasting Cilantro which is maybe equally as weird as us tasting dill. But yes, I’m quite relieved myself to see I’m not the only one who tasted dill in this one! It even got much more intense with subsequent infusions!

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So another Butiki tea that I haven’t tried before, and another oolong! I’m unsure whether this is roasted or just oxidized? The pellets are very dark brown, but I don’t really get any of that roasty smell from them. They smell more mineral and earthy with some honey sweetness. Either way, onward! I steeped for 4 minutes at 185 degrees.

The brewed tea does smell somewhat roasty, but not enough for me to confirm one way or the other… It also has an almost winey scent to it, along with wood and some sweetness. Hm, that wine note is also present in the taste, which is very interesting to me. The flavor says, “yes, I am roasted” and looking this tea up on Butiki’s website, that is correct. This definitely tastes what I would imagine an aged tea tastes like, it has an almost alcoholic quality to it. It’s actually really reminding me of a mixture of red wine and scotch! Overall, a very interesting tea.

Flavors: Alcohol, Red Wine, Roasted, Scotch, Wood

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 4 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML
Butiki Teas

This tea was charcoal roasted every 2-3 years. It is only lightly oxidized.

Cameron B.

It’s definitely very unique, and I enjoyed it! :) Thanks for the info.

Butiki Teas

So glad that you enjoyed it! :)

SarsyPie

Wow, sounds awesome!

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This is a remarkable tea, one to be cherished and enjoyed slowly when you have time to tease out all it’s notes. The flavor is so complex I’m having trouble describing the experience, but it’s a sublime one. It’s been 10 minutes since my first steep ended and the flavors are still racing across my palette, as though 23 years of aging are just now catching up to my taste buds. At the front i noticed the smokey flavor first, but that quickly led way to the chestnut body with an almost coffee amount or depth and flavor, tailing off to a citrus finish that lasts quite awhile. Excellent tea, simply excellent!

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Ah. This tea is pretty great. It reminds me of one of maybe a WuYi oolong or maybe a high-quality Dong Ding. But what do I know? The thing that distinguishes this one is the mouthfeel. It is creamy, and I mean really creamy. It feels thick in your mouth, almost like heavy cream. Even when life is hard, I’m grateful to be able to take time to enjoy brewing and drinking tea.

Preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 4 min, 0 sec 4 tsp 14 OZ / 414 ML

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