Ti Kuan Yin Customer Reviews

I read on another site that this tea is picked by monkeys trained by monks. It's pretty good stuff.

I really enjoyed this tea. Nice aroma, very smooth and a surprising amount of flavor compared to some of the other 'green' oolongs.

I love this oolong. It is slightly floral and sweet. I agree with other posters that the second brewing was best.

4 min steep · 192°F

This tea was very flavorful. The second brewing of this tea was the best.

One of the better examples of the iron goddess of mercy teas. It brews strong and with just the kick i need for the morning while being still a decent afternoon tea.

This is an excellent oolong tea. It's easy to steep the same leaves over and over and drink all day.

first steep can be uneventful, but every steep from then on it only gets sweeter after the leaves slowly unfurl...you're missing out if you haven't communed with the iron goddess.

7 helpful votes

A little ligher than I expected. I'm a black tea drinker experimenting with oolongs. I'm giving it a chance to grow on me, but for the cost, I may stick with Wuyi and my Black teas.

Superb yellow color with an aroma both floral and vegetal. The flavor is crisp and smooth, without a trace of underlying bitterness.

Looks, tastes and smells like a light green, but much easier to make. I just wish it wasn't so expensive :-)

This is my all-time favorite tea. Very delicate, but an amazing taste. Drinking it is a very pleasant experience. I just wish that it wasn't so expensive.

An excellent oolong. It is one of my favorite oolongs.

This is good for a anytime of day tea. Nothing that really popped yet it was pleasant.

Love this tea. I am hooked on oolongs now--I used to be a huge green tea junkie, but tky definitely turned me. It has a heavier, mellow taste with lightly floral notes.

This is my favorite tea of all the ones I've gotten. I love the fragrance and it makes multiple infusions, so that offsets the cost.

this one tastes as good as it smells -- can't wait to try other varieties of oolong.

There is an underlying sweetness to this kind of tea. However, be warned it can be easily over steeped and if you do it becomes intensely vegetable tasting.

Mild, subtle, and slightly grassy, with hints of honey and flowers. Not as bold as I like an Oolong to be, but still very enjoyable.

Mmmm! Adagio's TKY was my introduction to unflavored oolongs, and the first tea I ever enjoyed and started to crave, totally unsweetened. It has really opened my palate to oolongs, and now I want it in my cabinet at all times.

Seems to be a bit of an acquired taste. It certainly has its own character.

This is a standard oolong, nothing fancy. I find it smooth and easy to drink without too much bitterness.

oily, slightly floral, and mostly vegetal and buttery. not my cup of tea, but very complex/sophisticated

Pretty good. It has all the characteristics described here, but maybe a little bit too subtle for me.

lighter and more floral compared to other tkys, if that's what you're looking for. Not too roasted

Wonderful oolong, very complex andstrong enough to multiple brews.

I could not get through this one. This has a really unusual scent to it.

Very nice flavor. Enjoy this tea straight or with a little bit of honey.

This is the best oolong you can get from this site! It tasted slightly green and floral.

My favorite of oolongs so far.. Also you can get several infusions

1 helpful votes

One of my favorite experiences with Ti Kuan Yin tea -- light, elegant, refreshing.

I found this tea to be a bit too perfumey for my taste. Definitely not bad, but just not for me.

I tried to like this tea but I just couldn't I steep it at 212, 180 and 150 and the tea tasted like melted plastic it was awful! Pouchong was the same way for me.

This has a very nice flavor to it. I like the way the leaves unfurl.

Godd quality tea but I don't care for the flavor. Tried dropping water temp to 150* but still not one of my favorites.

This was my first introduction to oolong teas. I fell in love with it! It is wonderful steeped as per instructions as well as prepared in the tradition gongfu manner. Adagio's TKY is one of the better ones I have found and so is very much worth adding to your tea collection!

the flavor was good but it was a little pricey. for 3 times as much I expect it to tase 3 times better than the one I get at the asian grocers.

I felt that this is the most 'oolong-y' tea among the oolong tea selections here. Other teas had more of a regular black-tea taste, while this one had a clean oolong flavor.

A little on the expensive side, but well worth it.

This is is great with just about everything. This is my new daily tea.

Wonderful tea to relax with in the morning or afternoon.

This is a very good oolong. I'll be ordering more for sure.

This was a very nice, refreshing, not too dark, TKY. Will be ordering again.

Very good TKY offering. Very solid flavor, great smell.

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This is a so,so TKY. Steeps 1 and 2 are tasteless. 3 and 4 have a slight orchid smell and a little bid of the nice astringency found in TKYs. I think the tea was underfermented.

This is one of my favorite oolong's. Not an anytime tea, but good when your looking for something different.

It was okay, but not my type of tea. It tasted very green.

I purchased some of this variety from a local shop and it was simply divine. I love Adagio, so I decided to give their version a shot. Sadly, it did not taste nearly as good. I don't want to say it was bad, for it wasn't. Still a good cup of tea, but not nearly as exquisite as the one I got from the local shop. I admit, I was sad. Of course, this could all be personal perference. You may love this more than I. So drink up! :D

Very distinct, unique flavor. I usually feel the need to add something to my tea but am at a loss to see what this one could need; perfect all on its own

Wonderful flavor. Used too much the first cup and was still great, strong, but not bitter.

This tea is just great, I found its a good afternoon type tea when you're just lounging around. Its flavor is both sweet and smooth.