Oolong Supreme

Another tea I bought 12 grams of just to try. I made this tea in my individual tea pot with the basket infuser so the leaves would expand. The leave are quite long and pretty, and I steeped them twice.

I recently read that oolong is in between green and black teas in terms of caffeine and oxidization. This totally makes sense and that’s exactly what I was getting out of this tea. It’s more delicate than a black tea but bolder than green. It’s quite smooth and I did notice the “mineral” taste others have mentioned. All in all a nice tea. However, as someone who cannot drink anything stronger than green tea too often due to a sensitive stomach I probably won’t be repurchasing this tea. I totally recommend it to those who love oolongs, but keep in mind this is nearly $20/50g. Sorry if it’s tacky to be critical of a tea due to price-I’m starting up a budget and cost-effectiveness has been on my mind lately (not to say that I don’t buy expensive teas-I will on occasion go all out on a green tea of the same price, but I drink that tea everyday and I’m better picking up subtle notes in greens than other forms of tea, thus I appreciate it more :) ). Also, because I do not purchase or drink oolongs I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between this one and a cheaper one.

Good lord it’s been a long few weeks. Last week I had the ear infection from hell, I couldn’t swallow or sleep for a week, and that was with the help of antibiotics. Then, the lovely antibiotics gave me thrush. So I’m still recovering from an ear infection that hopped from one ear to the other and made my throat raw and now I’ve got thrush. Boo. It’s been two weeks since I got sick. Hot tea or spicy food makes my throat better, but makes the thrush worse. Cold drinks soothe the thrush, but do nothing for my throat. So I’ve been chugging cold water and not wasting good tea on a bad system.

But I had to break that for this beauty. My wife had another really crappy experience at the Scarborough Town Center DavidsTea, and I contacted customer service about it, because I know it was not the level of service Davids expects of their stores. Part of the issue was my wife tried to purchase some Blue Mountain Twirl and the employee just laughed and said she hadn’t even heard of it, so they probably didn’t have it. As she was leaving, she saw it on the wall, but just wanted to get the heck out of there. This was about a month ago.

Natalie, wonderful customer service rep that she is, was apologetic that she didn’t have any Blue Mountain Twirl to send us, but she did offer to send some of this tea. Of course, I accepted the offer.

Imagine my surprise when I opened the package today to find a full 100g of this tea. Holy crap. And it is gooooood. It’s delicious and roasty and there’s a hint of stone fruit and omg I just love it. I looove it. If you can get your hands on some of this, do it. Now. I’ll wait.

This is a queued tasting note.

So I cold brewed this, but honestly I drank it while I was super busy just for the hydration and now I can’t really remember a whole lot about what it tasted like other than it was very roasty. This is mostly just a note for myself that it could be worthwhile trying this cold brewed again because I think I liked it? If nothing else, I’d like to make more observant notes.

EDIT: So this is tasting note 3700!? I guess MAYBE it’s time to start thinking about what tea I want tasting note 4000 to be? It’s a way off, but this “milestones” keep sneaking up on me…

Again, another expensive blend that I won’t be getting a lot of. I’m kind of ‘meh’ on straight oolongs, but I’m realising that you get what you pay for and this one is delicious. Definitely a higher quality than what I’m used to – sadly my wallet cannot made the jump, LOL. I added a little bit of milk to this one on my first couple of steepings, but maybe next time I’ll just have it plain.

I got this tea as part of the Frequent Steeper program, and it was a great use of my free two ounces. I drink a lot of oolongs for my blog, and, while this is not an amazing oolong, it was a pretty solid offering from DavidsTea.

Sipdown! Figured I’d use up the last of this in a travel mug for Thanksgiving. It’s a great counter to all the sweet baked goods (as I find many straight blacks are as well). Roasty, oolong goodness.

this tea was free with my Frequent points.
Gongfu method
6g 100ml 185F
rinse/5/10/10/15/20sec etc
its is floral, nutty and mildly roasted(too mild for my taste;)
longer steeps bring astringency and bitterness. I suggest to prepare it Gongfu(pseudo gongfu if you dont have gaiwan). Otherwise tea is kinda flavorless and bitter. More leaves, less time.
It is a quality tea, just not my taste. But it was free, so no complaints.

Yes, it’s double the price of most of the oolongs at David’s Tea. I was so skeptical but I’m really enjoying oolongs lately and decided to go for something special. I was not disappointed. I brewed my first cup and made sure that my timing was exact, because I didn’t want it getting too strong. Well, after I had my first sip, I knew I was in trouble. Darn my expensive tastes! This is light and buttery and delicate and I could just drink it all the time.

I also mix it with the Pink Flamingo to make iced tea for my husband and he can’t get enough of it. A full “perfect spoon” of each in a 45oz pot, brew it as long as you want (I’ve even done it overnight to concentrate the flavours). Thank goodness for the Frequent Steeper program because this will be a good one to get for free!

Made for me at a DavidsTea store.

What is this?

All I got was faint brine and some bitter vegetal.

The buttery rich flavor of Oolong Supreme really caters to the taste buds nicely. I found this one tasted even better during a second or third steeping. It’s very soothing on a sensitive stomach so as I recovered the tea made it easier to take meals. I can imagine that later on that this tea would make a great travelling partner for photo shoots. In the meanwhile I’ve been drinking it while reading fantasy novels. Which in a way is kind of like travelling without having to leave the house. Haha. Happy tea drinking everyone.