★★★★★
I really enjoyed this highly oxidized tea. It had a toasty aroma and a delicious sweet, savory flavor. A smooth mouthfeel and a pleasant lingering aftertaste as well.
A darker oolong tea from Taiwan, formerly known as Formosa (which means 'Beautiful'). Deep raisiny and ripe fruit aroma, autumn 'leafy' note. The lingering flavor and smooth, refreshingly fruity astringency and a lovely introduction to Taiwanese tea.
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I really enjoyed this highly oxidized tea. It had a toasty aroma and a delicious sweet, savory flavor. A smooth mouthfeel and a pleasant lingering aftertaste as well.
I really like this tea. Not too bitter, warm and cozy, five stars. Reminds me of Taiwan.
Good oolong tea. Smooth and tasty. Not quite what I was looking for but a quality tea
It's a good oolong but nothing really too distinct to nake me want to enjoy ut everyday.
Cold brewed sample pack in 1Q/1L room temp water for iced tea
Its in between a straight oolong and a black tea. Light to medium bodied like an oolong, but not as heavy as a black tea. Has some malty flavours to it. Really nice iced
Just a delightful tea! A friend let me try hers, and I just had to order more!
my favorite oolong! So glad to be able to try teas out with samples. Visually beautiful as well as delicious.
This one is smooth and a bit smoky, which I like. In my regular rotation.
This oolong is delicious, though not my favorite flavor. Still, I highly recommend it for anyone exploring an oolong palate.
Fresh almost sweet oolong tea. Great for a comfortable chair and a good book.
This has a nice toasted flavor. Definitely a strong oolong. It's similar to Ito En's Golden Oolong but a bit more bitter perhaps. It's not an unpleasant bitterness though. I brewed the tea in cold water overnight. I imagine brewing it hot may cause an unpleasant bitterness, but brewed cold it is quite nice.
This is a staple in my house for brewing strong oolong with a pinch of flavored oolong (right now it's peach oolong) to enjoy unsweetened as iced tea when it's hot out. Yummm!
Rich flavor, excellent color to the
tea produced.
I love all oolongs, but this one is almost like an 'Uptown' version. A little smoother & richer.
I have had to quit drinking black teas, but oolong is allowed. This has a relatively full bodied taste compared to others I've tried.
A good solid oolong. Nice flavor notes, will definitely repurchase!
Dark, smoky flavor that some may like, but not to my taste.
Not bad for an oolong, but nothing too remarkable
Formosa means beautiful and boy, is that the right word! Truly blessed with the full body, bold taste of this oolong tea. A darker tea with so much richness that I am duly wowed! Who needs coffee-- Not me!
Tastes a bit more like tree bark than I expected.
Excellent fresh taste. Not too leafy but more roasty than many oolongs. I couldn't keep it in the kettle log because my 17-year-old son loved it.
my hubs likes oolongs so we tried this one... and it's stellar, 2 person rating
excellent for recreating the oolong milk tea I usually get in tea shops
This tea didn't have any scent, nor flavor. If you prefer very plain tea or if you doctor your tea up with a lot of sugar/creamer you may like it. I was surprised because this tea had so many high reviews. I may give it another try.
This tea is a good tea to have warm, and on a rainy day . Also a tea to drink with Breakfast.
Rich, subtle sweetness, and so smooth. Tastes like the Ito En Oolong tea if you've had that one. Top 5 tea for me.
I really like this tea. It's not too strong and has a really good taste.
A really standard oolong tea - if you are looking for a good every day oolong, this is fantastic.
Very good. Very smooth and rich. Especially good for the price offered. Definitely my personal favorite oolong.
This is one of our favorite go-to teas. It has a balanced taste and is a perfect everyday tea.
Seems like this whole order is full of teas I first tried through CommuniTea. Yet another one I just had to add to my everyday collection.
I saw some reviews that compared this to a breakfast tea, and indeed this smells like english breakfast tea! This tea was quite nice unsweetened... has a nice bit of natural sweetness, raisin-like per the description, enjoyable toasty-ness, cocoa notes, and it's pretty smooth with very mild astringency. Soft mouthfeel. I recognize this as being very similar to or the same as the base for the peach and maple creme oolongs. Just a dab of honey smoothed it out a teeny bit and made it that much more enjoyable, though I also liked it unsweetened, too. I drank this happily, and this easily makes multiple steeps. Glad this came up as today's CommuniTEA selection! (5 mins @195º for the first steep, but would have steeped more like 4 minutes if I hadn't lost track of time.)
I haven't met an oolong that I didn't like. Darker than most oolongs, yet still with the same great flavor and an added earthiness and hint of raisins.
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Very smooth dark oolong with little astringency and no bitterness when steeped at 190°F x 3 minutes. The flavor is mellow with hints of toasted grain and chocolate. I love oolongs for their diverse and complex flavors and the ability to resteep multiple times--this tea is no exception.
Very enjoyable, serve with milk and sugar for a great match to restaurant thai tea.
On the oolong oxidation scale, this is probably as close to a black tea as it can get. The CommuniTEA packet contents smelled like a cozy campfire between water and woods. This intensified at it steeped for 3min at 195F. The resulting medium brown liquid is slightly sweet, toasty, and smooth with an almost smoky aftertaste. This is the most tasty unflavored oolong I’ve had this far.
An excellent oolong. It fit within my limited mental image of an oolong and yet was so much more complex.
I liked the smoothness of this tea. The flavor was good hot and cold.
This is a strong, bold oolong, similar almost in taste to a black tea. It has a maltiness and earthy tone, with some sweet raisin like notes. The aroma was almost chocolaty. This continued to hold up for multiple steeps! A hearty, reasonably priced little tea.
Just not my cup of tea today! Too earthy for me to enjoy.
This has a very earthy, raisin-y flavor. I added sugar which made it a little smoother.
Today’s communiTea flashed memories of my friends & I at our local Chinese restaurant sipping this tea. A classic dark oolong, steeped a smoky raisin aroma in my kitchen. Each sip, kinda lightly earthy, leaned more as a black cuppa tea sweetened by a subtle raisin finish. Steeped 3mins @200, with very little astringency. Nice darker oolong tea, especially as a breakfast cup.
One of the few Oolongs that I have enjoyed so far on the CommuniTEA. Flavor profile is more like a black tea. 1st steep was done at 200 for 5 minutes and sweetened with Monk fruit. I enjoyed the subtle fruity raisin taste, but did not enjoy the astringency. Made my mouth feel like cotton. 2nd steep was better at 190 for 4 minutes with both Monk fruit and creamer, served cold.
Excellent cup of tea. Adding to my wishlist..Best oolong tea that I have tasted in a long time. 👍👍
Really wanted Chinese food it reminded me of the tea in Chinese restaurants.
A mild woody flavor with slight sweetness, this oolong is on the bolder side and great for multiple brews
A very earthy yet slightly fruity oolong, it has a very smooth feel that's so lovely.
The recent oolongs we have has in the communitea have all seemed to me to be very 'green like teas', in that they has a floral or vegetal quality to them. This tea, from the outset, was clearly a very different type of oolong. Dark, earthy leaves with a bit of a woody scent to it.
I brewed it up at 190 degrees for 3.5 minutes, at which point it hit a nice colour. The sip was toasty, and warm. I kind of felt like this was fall in a cup, when the greens have all faded to brown, and the air turned chilly. The barest hint of cocoa, only in some sips, with a very slight astringency. This cup is way more like a black tea in it's taste profile, and I was quite surprised by it.
I saved the leaves to do a second steep, but have not had the chance to try it yet. This is a very nice oolong, one that I could happily curl up with and sip at on a cold fall or winters day.
I love how this tastes. Reminiscent of a black tea. It steeped a nice dark color. When hot it had a autumnal, woody flavor, and a nutty scent. Once it cooled it picked up a sweeter, raisin flavor & came across a bit malty as well.
I got 2 strong steeps out of this, and 1 milder one.
Steeped 3x: 200F 3min.