★★★★☆
I splurged on the Ali Shan tea bags, and the tea has a faint floral scent. Sometimes a high quality, quick tea bag is handy to have on hand.
Green oolong tea from Ali Shan, one of Taiwan's most famous tea growing areas. Beautiful high mountain oolongs come from its misty peaks. Warm sugar and deeply layered floral aromas, with a melting, creamy mouthfeel. Mellow and light-bodied.
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I splurged on the Ali Shan tea bags, and the tea has a faint floral scent. Sometimes a high quality, quick tea bag is handy to have on hand.
This is the first oolong I can drink alone (without any flavor). I love it!
Ali shan is absolute indulgence. It is my 'thinker's beverage'.Ali shan is the best full bodied tea experience I have had with Oolongs. And nothing this smooth, aromatic and indulgent comes cheap. It is the crowning jewel in my tea pantry, and a show stopper when friends come over.
My husband loved this hot and iced! Great flavor even without sweeteners.
Mellow and smooth. Having a preference for green tea, this is one of the few oolongs I've had that I can tolerate.
I love this tea. Like others have said: it is a creamy tasting tea. I love to mix this with Hojicha to add a bit more of a heavy and nutty flavor. but it's perfectly fine on it's own.
The honey notes are prominent and the tea is very smooth with no bitterness or astringency. A nice tea but a bit to pricy for every day.
Another good oolong. Oolong is my favorite type so it is hard to go wrong, but also I guess I'm not enough of a tea guru to really tell the difference from one oolong to another.
This tea is exactly what I want in an oolong, which is my favorite variety of tea. A pronounced floral-fruity nose, like peaches or tropical fruit or some delicious smelling bloom with something creamy mixed in like a dash of coconut milk. A smooth flavor, no astringency. A gorgeous golden color. Immediately relaxing. Previously, I'd stumble across a tea I loved, but have no way of purchasing it again because it was a gift or I bought it on a lark. Now, I'm thrilled to have found a favorite I can easily purchase again and again.
My favorite tea of all time! This tea has exceptional rebreeding potential.
One of the best Oolong teas I have ever tasted! It has a smooth and creamy mouth feel with a very sweet taste. It's light fragrant and amazing!
This produces a very green and fresh tasting tea. Both the fragrance and the taste are delightful.
Not the best tea I've had. A weird taste that lacks distinction.
really nice tea. like the creamy feeling and how light bodied this tea is.
The color of Ali Shan is very light. If you are familiar with the excellent Taiwanese green teas, you'll recognize instantly the delicate and subtle flavors. The first steep was the best. The flavors were quickly lost in subsequent steeps.
This is my new favorite tea. I'm very sad about this, because it's freaking expensive! It's kind of like a mild green tea with a bright aftertaste? I don't know, this is my first oolong, so I'm probably not going to be able to give you the best description, but I think there was some creaminess and some floral taste. It was also just a little grassy. I got three steeps out of it, with the third being pretty light (but I didn't go longer than three minutes or higher than the initial temperature with the second and third steeps, so maybe if I'd done that, I'd have gotten four). My favorite part, the aftertaste, disappeared after the first steep, but it was still yummy. The second time I brewed Ali Shan, I shared it with a friend, and we split each 8oz steep and took our time with each cup, so we made a little bit of tea leaf go a long way. I recommend letting the tea cool quite a bit before drinking, because I couldn't taste as much when it was hot. I like it just warm. I also recommend brewing it a little bit cooler than the recommended temperature.
This tea tastes more like a green than an oolong tea. It brews a light yellow color, but it has a strong taste and it's also very smooth. I like to add slices of cucumber and mint leaves with iced tea for a summer flare, but the tea is also god by itself to drink hot. Also, this is a full leaf tea so it is good to steep more than once.
Ok wasn`t what I expected i thought it hand an earthy taste and a floral aroma wasn`t bad but not my favorite
I could drink this every day, and I nearly do.
Buttery, creamy notes round out vegetal flavors and harmonize with sugar cane, fruit and florals. No one flavor predominates, instead they all harmonize for a distinctive, mellow taste.
Best of all, you can get multiple steepings out of the leaves.
I tried a sample of this tea. It is amazing! Tastes like you're drinking a garden. I've wanted to do that since I was a tiny child, so it is nice to see that dream realized in something that won't poison me!
What I do for multiple steepings is I make myself a cup, then set the bag on top of a multi-folded paper towel. Once it's time for the next cup, I'm good to go. And on the plus side, this also helps release the tea's aroma in the immediate vicinity! So it smells even nicer in my kitchen. I've also been dumping the used leaves on brown patches of grass in my yard. Brown patches are mostly gone now, and there's a nice floral aroma!
Anyway, due to how many steepings you can get out of this (on top of other perks), the price really isn't that bad at all. So in a way, at 114 USD for 16oz, you're technically getting anywhere from 32-48 ounces (effective, not actual of course) on top of an amazing fertilizer for dying grass.
This is definitely going to be one of my main go-to teas from now until I can't get it anymore.
Steeped it once and was in love, steeped it on a seperate occasion and was very unimpressed. This may just be my personal experience, but it didn't seem to live up to it's price. I don't see myself opting for this over the jade oolong in the future.
This one is not bad. I was used to dong ding oolong, but my supply ran out. Dong ding is super expensive, so I was trying alternatives. It has a nice vegetal flavor that is fresh, but not quite what I'm used to.
Light, creamy, and floral. No astringency whatsoever. A solid Ali Shan.
This is an excellent Oolong. Good for several steeps.
I give this a good because while I enjoyed drinking ali shan I didn't think it stood out enough to purchase it again. It's worth trying once.
Good oolong with classic taste and smell. It is very suitable for gongfu tea ceremony to enjoy with its smell and taste separately.
Tea is clear. Even, leaves are not young, damaged, and on a sprig you will enjoy.
I really didn't want to like this one because it's way out of my budget, but I'm going to have to get over it. This tea is amazing. It's super relaxing and incredibly complex, with a lovely sweetness and a hint of creaminess that's so, so good. Treat yo self.
Love this tea, much more complex then the other oolongs, it's slightly similar to jade oolong but more complex taste.
The light finish was a bit worrying at first, but great tea. Strong and has the ability for multiple brews.
Mellow and vegetal, with a strong butteriness. Blossoms into more floral notes on steeps 2 and 3. A very nice utility oolong.
This is a decent tea with a nice light flavor, not as much depth as I was hoping for, but for the price it was ok. I absolutely love the master's formosa ali shan and was hoping this would be similar for drinking more frequently, but it doesn't approach the quality of the formosa (reflected in the price.)
Not only beautiful in the cup but the sweet floral scent and honey notes really make this a winner. This just puts you in the right place of mind with every sip. Every infusion is as interesting as the previous one.
This is my first time trying oolong tea and this is simply amazing! I'm in love, the sample I bought won't last long!
The sample package that I purchased to try this tea had a real good fresh fruity floral note to it. When I purchased the 3 ounce package it didn't even have a smell. It was like it was old and stale. Needless to say I was disappointed with the bigger package. This tea is too pricy to be stale.
I absolutely love this Tea. I'm currently placing my second order for a fullsize bag.
Different from anything I have ever tried. I tried mixing this with the coconut pouchong, and it worked nicely. Great on its own as well. I prefer this to many other oolongs that I have tried.
When brewed at 180 degrees and steeped for 2 minutes, this green turned out to be nicely buttery and mellow. However, when brewed at the recommended 195 degrees and 3 minutes, it turned out to be bitter and lettuce-y -- ugh, the dreaded result of an oversteeped green! Lesson learned: mind your brewin' technique and you'll get a nice mellow green out of it. :)
Wonderful oolong. Amazing floral notes, such a smooth drink, probably my favorite of the oolong teas
I don't like floral teas of any sort and it's hard to find an oolong without floral aromas. This one has a nice flavor without anything perfume-like.
This was my one Green sample I purchased. The taste is good however I don't think I'm a big fan of green teas!
Was really good just different than expected.
I'm in love. So what the sample pack was $9. I like taking chances. I love jasmine and this has a hint of it but not strong. I've been searching high and low for this.
One of the best teas in Adagio's collection. Third infusion is so good!
I don't usually buy oolongs, which is a shame, because it turns out they're quite enjoyable. This one particularly so. It's delicately flavored and very light in color (I always forget that about oolongs). I wouldn't drink it every morning, it's too special (and pricey) for that. But I've found its greatly calming when your nerves are completely shot, and you need to feel like a person again.
This tea was surprisingly great. As a lover of oolong, I'm adding this one to my list of teatime goodies.
UPDATE- Yep. ali shan is still one of my top teas. It is so silky smooth and buttery. The notes are perfectly balanced making for a cup of tea that can easily turn into a pot of tea.
This is definitely one of the best teas I have ever tasted. It's smooth, buttery and has a pleasant floral taste.
A fantastic oolong. All the flavor you want in an oolong is there and really amplified. You can also resteap this tea a good 4 times, the 4th time being really light in flavor but still there and still good. Worth it
I had read such great reviews about Ali Shan. however, it really didn't stand out in any way to me and at the price, it just doesn't seem worth it.
This is a nice, but very light oolong--I personally prefer teas with a bit more flavor. Multiple steeps is not something you can do with this tea.
Another light 'tastes like a green' oolong, which can handle multiple infusions without problems.