Organic Zheng Wei Tie Guan Yin Oolong Tea

Tea type
Oolong Tea
Ingredients
Oolong Tea Leaves
Flavors
Almond, Apricot, Bread, Citrus, Cream, Custard, Dandelion, Floral, Grass, Honey, Mineral, Mint, Orange Blossom, Orange Zest, Orchid, Pastries, Peach, Pear, Plum, Raisins, Rose, Straw, Vanilla, Vegetal, Violet, White Grapes, Butter, Flowers, Freshly Cut Grass, Milk, Orchids, Rhubarb, Strawberry, Creamy, Cut Grass, Gardenias, Sweet
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Loose Leaf
Caffeine
Medium
Certification
Not available
Edit tea info Last updated by eastkyteaguy
Average preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 3 min, 0 sec 5 g 5 oz / 150 ml

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  • “This is yet another review from either July or August of 2019. It’s also probably going to be the last review I post today. I recall this tea being just a little past its prime when I got around...” Read full tasting note
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  • “I cleaned out my online cupboard a bit today as I have sipped down a few teas recently. I am also shocked at how many teas I have not added to my cupboard and I just don’t feel like doing it right...” Read full tasting note
  • “My impressions are mostly in line with the other reviewers. It is a light, understated Tie Guan Yin. The dry leaf smells of green wood and grass. It is not luscious like many other Tie Guan Yins,...” Read full tasting note
    87
  • “Flowery, perfumey, light milk aroma. Sweet and super light vegetal notes compared to other TGYs. More of a floral taste instead of green, no real fruit notes that I can detect. Subtle buttery notes...” Read full tasting note
    86

From Teavivre

Producing area: Anxi, Quanzhou, Fujian

Dry tea: curled, bold, sand green Aroma: light flowery fragrance

Liquid: clear, light yellowish

Mouthfeel: light sweet, smooth and soft

Tree species: Tie guan yin tea plant

Tea garden: An Shan high mountain ecological tea garden

Zheng Wei Tie Guan Yin oolong tea has classic flower fragrance, without grassy notes, so it is suitable for those who are in fond of flower flavor.

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Unlike some of the other oolongs I’ve sampled from TeaVivre in the past, this tea has a more monotone flavor, tasting mostly of fresh picked flowers. It lacks the depth some of their other offerings have and I find myself missing the notes of hay, vanilla, and sweet fruit that some of my favorites, such as their Anxi Monkey King Tie Guan Yin, bring to the table. While this classic style of Tie Guan Yin isn’t as flavorful, it does have a fabulously smooth, almost butter mouthfeel and slight sweetness that I’ve found quite addictive. This tends to dissipate slightly with each resteeping of the leaves, but the faintest hints are still noticeable, even after the sixth steeping. The fact that this tea can be steeped so many times alone will insure that I’ll order it again, it’s a great choice when economy is something to consider, although I will admit it’s not my favorite of the Tie Guan Yin teas that TeaVivre has to offer.

You can read my full review on my blog:
http://www.notstarvingyet.com/index/2016/7/5/tuesday-tea-zheng-wei-tie-guan-yin-oolong-tea-teavivre

Preparation
Boiling 5 min, 0 sec

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Thank you to Angel at Teavivre for this delicious tea! Strangely, I’m blanking on how it actually tasted (probably because I drank it unthinkingly, and have had other oolongs recently too), but I do know it was good. I’ll try to finish off the rest of the packet soon and follow up with a better note at that time.

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I liked this better than Teavivre’s Nonpareil TGY. It has the classic TGY flavor profile but mellower and not over the top floral. Just a nice, smooth orchid/violet flavor. It’s a little one-dimensional to me but still a nice every once in a while tea.

Flavors: Orchid, Violet

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 0 min, 15 sec 3 g 3 OZ / 80 ML

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Angel from Teavivre had sent me several samples again. Thank you so much Angel. I need to post more frequently here. I still drink a lot of tea. I just don’t post as often if ever.

Me being an oolong fan, this one did not disappoint. Zheng Wei Tie Guan Yin Oolong Tea is very delicious. The dry leaf was a mix of light to dark green leaves curled up fairly loose with some trace fuzziness to some of the leaves. The smell was very fresh, mild-moderately fragrant – floral. The scent of the steeped tea was delicious and beautifully fragrant when I get about 2 inches away. The tea was a very light yellow. The taste was delicious – yum! The first steep was very smooth, creamy, and had a buttery mouth-feel to it. The taste was slightly sweet with hints of flowers, honey, and very mild grassiness.

This is a complex oolong and changed with each steep. The 2nd steep became less sweet and a bit astringent toward the back of my mouth and a kind of dryness. The 3rd steep was more watery but I don’t think I steeped it long enough. I only did 3 steeps of this tea as I become distracted very easily. I love how tea keeps me centered and focused (for the most part!). My daughter turned 3 a few days ago. I can’t believe I’ve been on steepster for longer than that. Times flies super fast.

Flavors: Butter, Creamy, Floral

Preparation
190 °F / 87 °C 1 min, 0 sec

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687 tasting notes

Another of my samples from Teavivre. Has a nice floral, orchid scent. There is a somewhat creamy/ buttery flavour. Still floral and lightly sweet. It’s very smooth too.

Flavors: Creamy, Floral, Orchid

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Thanks again, Teavivre! The description mentions this one as being more flowery than the Iron Goddess which seems impossible to me, as I adore that oolong. I was already in love with this one at the scent of the rinsed leaves. There is such an ambrosia to this one — a gorgeous floral flavor. There is also hints of spice to the flavor, a kick to it, which I would prefer wasn’t there, since it would be nice if this one just had a full flower flavor. But I don’t think it’s an overbrewed spiciness, since the flavor was still a sweet syrupy nectar. Perfect for sitting outside and reading with, on this late Spring day. With the second and third steeps, that spiciness has disappeared and smoothed leaving only the explosion of floral flavor. I don’t think there could possibly be more flavor, and I think I brewed it perfectly. Is it more flowery than the Iron Goddess? The last harvest I tried, I think it definitely is (though it is fairly similar to the Iron Goddess of a couple years ago). This is definitely the oolong I would want to have in stock! How can tea taste this amazing?!?
Harvest: October 2015
Steep #1 // 2 teaspoons for a full mug// 16 minutes after boiling // rinse // 1 minute steep
Steep #2 // few minutes after boiling // 1 minute steep
Steep #3 // just boiled // 1 minute steep

Flavors: Flowers, Orchid

rosebudmelissa

That sounds amazing!

tea-sipper

Definitely one of my favorite oolongs that I’ve ever tried!

Arby

Oh my gosh I must buy this tea. Thank you for inspiring me, I have been looking for the perfect flowery oolong for a while now!

hawkband1

This is going on my wish list!

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Water: 12oz

Leaves: green tightly rolled balls

Steep: rinse, 5m

Aroma: classic oolong

Color: golden yellow

Clarity: great!

Taste:It’s been a long time since i had my last cup of oolong tea so this will be almost like a fresh start. To begin i gave the leaves a 10s rinse as i do with all oolong teas because of what i read online. the aroma was that off the classic oolong scent your used to. Steeped for 5m the flavor was nice with no bitterness. Overall i found this to be a great cup & can see myself drinking again. What makes this cup special is that this marks my 100th tea review! I’ve been writing reviews for 3 years & i plan to continue because this is something i enjoy doing. Thank you everyone for your continued support & answering my questions when i stepped into the world of tea :)

Preparation
Boiling 5 min, 0 sec 2 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML

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Today was a beautiful day, warm weather (meaning no cold side of the head and ears, mohawk woes) and clear skies…combine that with getting a good night’s sleep (and being woken up by the smell of blooming flowers) for the first time in over a week made for a having a lovely day. I had an adventure to a part of town I don’t normally venture to procure some fried chicken and okra, because nothing says comfort food on a warm day like fried yummies. I am Southern after all, it is what my people feast on, well that and collards but that is sadly harder to find this time of year outside of a can. Now I sit and blog between waiting for coats of paint to try on my miniatures, fun times for me!

Today concludes my week of Teavivre teas with one that is very appropriate to the weather, Zheng Wei Tie Guan Yin Oolong Tea, a Fujian Oolong from the An Shan Tea Garden. This Oolong is an autumn harvest and is said to be different from their other Tie Guan Yin by being less green and more floral, and considering their other TGY is pretty floral that is an impressive boast. From the moment I cut open the package I realized this boast was true, this TGY is hands down the most floral smelling one (possibly the most floral tea) I have ever sniffed. It was potent, heady, and intoxicating, notes of hyacinth, orchid, lilac, and daffodils. The last one made me immensely happy because that is not a note I get very often in teas, and I absolutely love daffodil, alongside all these flowers is a touch of green vegetation, the accompanying leaves to all the blossoms in a bouquet.

Once the leaves have steeped (and thoroughly poofed up in my xishi) the aroma takes on a delightful sweetness, one that reminds me of caramel, which I admit surprised me though not in a bad way. Alongside this sweetness was the heady elixir of hyacinth, daffodil, and orchid blossoms and the green notes of bamboo leaves and vegetation. The liquid has a buttery sweet quality, reminding me of buttery cookies and flowers, it is heady and sweet, no greenness to be detected in the steeped liquid.

Holy cow that is one buttery mouthfeel, it took me a moment to focus on what I was tasting because I was too distracted by the buttery goodness, so smooth! The taste, when I finally focused, was light, typical for a first steep, gentle notes of hyacinth and orchid with a daffodil note as well. This moves to a celery leaf almost savory quality at the finish with a lingering flowery note in the aftertaste.

I feel like I am sniffing pure undiluted liquid spring-time, it is intensely floral with green notes as well, really it is spring in a cup. The mouthfeel is still intensely buttery but with a slight slickness at the finish. The taste is light, though not as light as the first, it is intensely floral, so many flowers, like walking in a spring garden when everything is blooming. The midtaste brings in more green, notes of bamboo leaves and a touch of celery leaves, for the finish it is all sweetness, like flower nectar and honey with a very strong orchid aftertaste.

For the third steep I still feel like I am in a garden, like I am slowly sinking into a flowery field, being lulled into a heady slumber in a flower patch, it borders on being narcotic like some flowers can be. This steep is just as floral, but it takes on a real nectar quality, I feel like a hummingbird supping from various flowers in a garden. There is very little green to this steep, just a hint of bamboo. The real shine from this steep is the aftertaste, where the earlier sipping has a nectar quality, the end has a heady orchid note that stays around forever, seriously the aftertaste on this steep just would not stop, it was epic! This might be my new favorite green Tie Guan Yin, it gives many steeps and is like drinking spring.

For blog and photos: http://ramblingbutterflythoughts.blogspot.com/2016/04/teavivre-zheng-wei-tie-guan-yin-oolong.html

ashmanra

Southern fried chicken, fried okra or okra in gumbo (with tomatoes and corn), cornbread, iced tea, and yes, collards, but don’t forget the mashed potatoes and gravy. This was my childhood. Funerals always had fried chicken, so when I dug up my brother’s ashes on my mom’s land (long story) and had him properly buried in the cemetery near our parents YEARS after he died, I insisted on picking up a fried chicken family-size dinner at Popeyes. That’s real Southern comfort! I didn’t know you were from the South!

TeaNecromancer

Ohhh yes, loads of mashed potatoes and enough gravy to cover it thoroughly! Popeye’s is great, they had one in PA when I lived there for a while and it was like a little slice of home when I couldn’t convince my mom to cook me some comfort food (which splits in half of either being all Southern or all English!)

I am from Augusta but spent the first half of my life around Atlanta and a little bit of South Carolina, I miss it, the food, culture, pretty nature…but I absolutely do not miss the heat and allergies. Though I have learned Kansas City is like a flat, dryer less forested South but with not as good BBQ.

ashmanra

I knew I was going to love my daughter’s fiancé (now husband) as I was bringing a pot of gravy to the table and he said, “Ah, yes! The elixir of life!” I love gravy. Make a gravy lake, eat carefully around the edges until the dam bursts, rebuild a smaller lake and refill with gravy and start again…

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