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“I started up a pot of this after lunch. I’m having a hard time waking up today so decided to treat myself to one of my favorite (and of course priciest) teas. My girlfriend came into the office...” Read full tasting note
Jin Xuan (金萱; pinyin: jīn xuān; literally “Golden Daylily”) is a 1980 developed variety of Oolong tea. The tea is also known as #12 or as “Milk Oolong” (Nai Xiang). It originates from Taiwan. The taste is light and flowery and sometimes compared to milk. This tea variety can be grown at higher altitudes, and the yield is about 20% higher compared to traditional tea varieties. These circumstances made it become one of the most popular varieties among tea farmers in Taiwan and Thailand.1 The widely advertised milky flavor of Jin Xuan is not always natural but is added by aromatization[citation needed]. The common method of flavoring the leaves further to accentuate their characteristic buttery taste is to steep or steam them in milk before roasting. However, this quality is varietally endemic to the tea, and similar taste enhancement can be produced by extra oxidization. Reputable dealers usually declare whether it is a natural or flavored oolong. A flavored Jin Xuan can be recognized before the tea is steeped. The added flavors mask the natural tea flavor significantly. The Milk Oolong we have are nature, especially after you tasting it , you able to tell the difference between the nature one and the added flavor ones
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I started up a pot of this after lunch. I’m having a hard time waking up today so decided to treat myself to one of my favorite (and of course priciest) teas.
My girlfriend came into the office (where my tea nook is), and said “why does it smell weird in here”?
“I don’t know, I just ate wasabi almonds, maybe it’s that. Surely, it’s not my fancy tea,” I said.
I handed her the tea filter, full of beautiful aromatic milk oolong leaves. To me it smells like a sweet dessert. She leaned in to smell it and immediately gagged. “Ew!! That’s it!” Hahahaha. There is now a candle lit in the office. I feel really bad about it, but it’s so crazy that two people can smell things so differently!!
Anyway, this tea is excellent as always :)
Martin: This is one of the teas I sent you a few days ago, hopefully it doesn’t smell bad to you!! haha
Sometimes it smells like buttered popcorn to me. Did yours? Because I can see where that would be an odd smell if you are not expecting it.
We will see. Maybe I will think it smells somewhere in the middle :D
ashmanra: I see what u mean by buttered popcorn, but I dont thiiink that’s what this smells like, although it is similar. This one is still very leaf-y and light. More vanilla-y, maybe? It is a strong and unusual tea smell though.
martin: Hopefully! I’ll be excited to hear what you think either way
I was told that one of mine smelled like an old lady’s house :)