Coconut Cabana

I’m not very familiar with oolong teas and tried just a sip of this one while visiting a fellow tea enthusiast’s house a couple weeks ago. Just one sip, mind you, was enough to convince me to look up TheTeaSpot.Com and order this delicious, one-of-a-kind, takes-your-taste-buds-totally-by-surprise oolong which looks just as delightful as it tastes.

The package recommends a 195F/3min steep time and temperature, which I agree with. Buy it! Enjoy it.

The dry leaves are forest green and darker. The coconut shreds are tinted a bright shade of green in my sample. The aroma of the dry leaves is a sweet, chewy, buttery coconut; if you smelled the tea with your eyes closed, you could convince yourself you had opened a tin of coconut butter cookies. I’m excited to taste what this tea will be like.

The aroma over the steeped leaves is like steamed spinach and some coconut.

The liquor is slightly cloudy and a light green-yellow. It has a tangible and savory coconut aroma and has plenty of tea oil floating on top.

The taste is as expected from the smell. There is a buttery coconut flavor, a very (very) light astringency and a light sweetness that comes in moments later. There is a bitterness I notice at the very end or after a sip, and this is very faint. Where is the tea? Violent swishing around my mouth brings out a vegetal flavor and some oolong flavor — aha — there it is! This also brings a delicate, piney aftertaste.

A second steeping at 205F for 4 minutes gives a greener liquor with less tea oil. The coconut flavor is still produced at the same strength, and the vegetal tea flavor is stronger. The aftertaste is sweet with coconut.

I would call this very smooth and delicate, but not as complex as other oolongs I’ve tried. Overall the flavors are light. I may need to try this first steep again with a longer steep or with more tea to get the full flavor I expect from an oolong.

Love the coconut in this tea. Could not get enough of this one had three cups the first day it arrived. It had a wonderful buttery, nutty taste. This is definitely one of my favorites.

I got it in my head that I wanted to revisit a tea I’d just had a bagged sample of, so I ordered a few from TTS.

This is astringent green oolong with artificial coconut flavoring. The oolong tastes cheap and subpar — reminds me of the stuff I got from Upton’s. Blech.

Consider my curiosity sated… don’t need to revisit this shop, I don’t think (the wild green puerh is what I’d really ordered for — satisfying enough, but I don’t need to restock it).

Ooooooh, YUM!

For some reason, I remembered it as Coconut Caribana—-hahhahhahhaha, yeah, well.

Anyway, creamy, coconut, floral, and delicious.

Coconut Cabana Tea from The Tea Spot is delightful in every way! It’s been too long since my last milky oolong and even longer since my last coconut milky oolong! This was everything I hoped it would be…smooth, sweet, toasty, nutty, creamy, milky, and more!

Full Review
http://sororiteasisters.com/2016/08/02/coconut-cabana-tea-tea-spot/

I’ve wanted this one for a while, especially in the sachet from for between class travel. Now, I have a tumbler.

I tried it first in the Urban Tumbler. Nutty, grassy, toasty, coconut, sweet, green and creamy. Not nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be, but I know this tea has more to offer.

Second time in the Xiang Fu pot. Same notes, but way more balanced. The toastiness was stronger in the first steep which was at about a minute and forty five seconds. Like a piece of toast with coconut oil slathered on it for butter. I got six solid, really long steeps out of it. The later steeps were smoother, sweeter, and more like regular coconut. But these steeps were long steeps: closer to twelve minutes at boiling.

This oolong was actually a little bit darker than I expected, but got greener in the later steeps. I thoroughly enjoyed this one, though not the best coconut blend I’ve had. This is more for drinkers looking for darker coconut teas or something closer to an Almond Joy.

Not a fan TTB. Was this once called Coconut Milky Oolong?
Sitting here sipping different teas while my daughter is taking a nap. This one sounded good. It smells kinda funky when wet. And the water color is kinda cloudy which I thought was weird. This is quite a unique tea. You start off with a kinda meh flavor then you get coconut and lastly the silkyness of the oolong. The milk oolong flavor is so subtle in this one. I wish it was a little more pronounced.

I got some of this in my Tea Sparrow box under the old name: Coconut Milky Oolong. The dry tea smells amazing: rich, creamy coconut. Yum. Brewed, the scent mellows down a bit but it still smells delicious. I also enjoyed watching the oolong unfurl as it steeped. :) I was a bit surprised that this was a relatively less-oxidized oolong – there’s definitely a greenish flavour to it that doesn’t quite blend with the coconut. But the coconut flavour itself is light and delicious – not at all artificial – and the overall impression is of creamy, coconutty, yumminess. I have steeped it 3 times so far, and this third steeping has less of the creamy coconut, and is more of a mild greenish tea. It’s still pleasant enough to drink. I think next time I brew this I’ll be more careful about water temperature and aim for a lower steeping temp, to see if that lessens the slight greenish astringency and tips the balance in favour of the coconut.

I bought this for my husband’s current oolong iced tea obsession….he loves it.
I think the coconut is a little too powerful, but it did make for a fun iced tea.