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“Bought some of the 2016. This is fine. It’s a very jadelike oolong. Not my favorite style of tea. But, I used to like this kind of tea years ago. It’s comparable with jade tieguanyin style teas....” Read full tasting note
Semiball-rolled leaf – few stems. Hand-plucked. 20-30% oxidation. No roasting. Spring plucked Ben Shan is more flavorful than the autumnal pluck Ben Shan, which is more fragrant. Fresh & lively sweet floral aroma, lighter and with less of the nectar quality of other semiball-rolled oolongs from this region of Fujian Province. Ben Shan is a delicious discovery for green-style oolong lovers! This oolong is produced in the Anxi region of southern Fujian Province, the same region that produces its more famous cousin, Tieguanyin. Ben Shan tea bushes produce oolong that is reminiscent of Tieguanyin but the flavor is lighter, more delicate, less buttery, and snappier in the cup. Ben Shan is one of a dozen or so similar oolongs that are made in this region. Each of these teas is made from a unique tea bush cultivar that gives its name to the tea that it produces ( Ben Shan, Huang Jin Gui, Mao Xie, Tieguanyin, and others). These teas are like cousins in one big happy regional family – they are similar to each other in some ways but each has unique and somewhat differing flavor characteristics. The style of oolong made here is known as ‘semiball-rolled’ – spherical, pellet-sized bundles of leaves in a rainbow of various green colors. This 2016 Spring Ben Shan is both floral and sweet, with a crisp, mineral snappiness. The aroma and taste of the tea suggests the steely quality of minerals (the taste of stones in a mountain stream) and fruit such as crisp Asian pears, with a touch of celery in the vegetal notes. But there is an elusive flavor/ aroma here that suggests the sweet milky aromatics of a Jin Xuan milk oolong. This tea is a bit of a delicious chameleon in the cup, which we think is a wonderful thing! Spring Ben Shan is more flavorful than the autumnal pluck Ben Shan, which is more fragrant. Both of these teas are delicious – they are just different expressions of seasonality. The color of the leaf is an attractive composite of mottled light and dark greens, signalling that this tea will be fresh and lively-tasting. In the cup the color of this tea’s liquor is a soothing, light jade green color.
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Bought some of the 2016.
This is fine. It’s a very jadelike oolong. Not my favorite style of tea. But, I used to like this kind of tea years ago. It’s comparable with jade tieguanyin style teas. It’s cheaper than those ones, so it’s a better deal.
However, if you like jade oolongs, personally, I would look to Taiwan for those.
