My five free samples from Teavivre came in the mail yesterday, and I was really craving a roasted oolong so I brewed this one up. The flavor is fairly nice. Mineral, red clay, roasted barley, and ripe plum flavors with an unripe plum tang and astringency. Slightly burnt tasting though. The aroma however is awesome! My cha hai smells of osmanthus and daffodil flowers, burning candle warmth, and something being baked with lots of butter and brown sugar.
This is a nicely aromatic and economical Wuyi oolong with very “warm” tastes and aromas.
I do wish the roast was a little more subtle. I’ve read that a little aging can help heavily roasted oolongs to “calm down” a bit; perhaps this one would benefit from that.
Flavors: Brown Sugar, Burnt, Butter, Clay, Mineral, Osmanthus, Plum, Resin, Roasted
I don’t have experience aging Wuyis but have had very good results leaving an overly smoky dancong from YS in its bag for a year. The changes were dramatic. Too bad that tea is long gone!