★★★★★
Great Tea. We Love It. Smooth and Creamy. After taste is amazing. Definitely gotta grab more.
Oolong from the WuYi Mountains in Fujian, China. Savory aroma, roasted vegetables. Faint pit-fruit notes. The honey-floral flavor and nutty, with white sesame, sweetened burdock root (fans of Japanese sweets, anyone?) or barley is satisfying and hearty.
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Great Tea. We Love It. Smooth and Creamy. After taste is amazing. Definitely gotta grab more.
One of my favorite teas on this website. This is a repeat purchase for me as it is excellent. Highly recommend to all.
I feel like I'm doing this tea a disservice by not describing the flavor notes, but as someone who is new to loose leaf tea, especially oolongs, it has flavors I'm not sure how to categorize other than saying I find this tea complex and delicious. Some of Adagio's milder tasting oolongs have been harder for me to appreciate, but this one has a lot of flavor. I've also noticed some oolongs have felt like drinking green tea and others like black tea, but this one shows me some oolongs feel like their own category. Not just in between a green and a black but wholly unique.
As I sip it, different flavor notes come forward that surprise and delight me. The tea is very smooth and with a silky texture. Wuyi Ensemble is one from the portions sampler that shows me I'm going to really enjoy exploring different oolongs. I'm enjoying the bigger bag I recently bought, and appreciate some smaller things about this tea, such as how easy the big leaves make emptying the infuser and how I can resteep the leaves if I want to continue the flavor journey.
It's not bad. Not great neither due to it having a perfum- like aftertaste.
Really deep tea, it has a pretty complex flavor but one i greatly enjoyed too
This tea smells like hay to me, and has somewhat of a malt flavor. It is a pleasant gold in the glass. This is a 'meh' tea for me. I am glad others enjoy it more than I do. 195F for three minutes.
I don't always love oolongs with mineral notes, but this one is pleasant. Next time I try it, I'll experiment with steep times and temps to see what other flavors I can bring out. I steeped the contents of the CommuniTEA packet for two minutes at 185 degrees.
A lovely oolong, bearing rich toasty tones in the first steep, some sweeter, buttery notes with a second... and definitely worthy of a third, to eek out what I can from this lush tea!
Loved this tea. I steeped it 3 times increasing time as I went and it was great every time. First cup had what I can only call usual oolong flavors with extremely light vegetal notes and mineral flavor with a wonderful buttery texture. 2nd cup brought out more of the delicate honey flavor others have noted as well as an even more faint floral flavor barely there with the same buttery texture. 3rd steep was lighter version of second while losing a bit of the texture, but still enough flavor to warrant that third steep. Great oolong. 195° 3 min, 4 min, and 10 min because I accidentally forgot to set timer on last steep lol
I regret that resteeping tea totally freaks me out (something about the wet leaves), because I really would like another cup of this, lol.
I wasn't crazy about this and not sure why. I love a smoky tea like lapsang souchong, and oolongs are some of my favorites, but I just found this one to be harsh tasting. I did not get any of the fruity, floral or honey notes as described. I guess just not my 'cup o' tea'! :)
If you like oolong tea then this one is one you definitely want to try. An almost perfect cup of tea.
It's a bit leafy and bitter, as I tend to like my oolong floraland sweet. However, it does taste of fall.
It smells slightly grassy when opened. It is okay for me. It has grassy flavor that I do not prefer.
CommuniTEA sample: 2 min @ 195 F, second infusion for 3 min @ 195 F. This is a pretty good, classic, unflavored oolong. It's very toasty, and I do get the notes they describe of smokiness, mineral aspects, and even some of that honey sweetness and cinnamon. I felt that the second infusion was a little bit more flavorful, and the first felt a bit plain. I think I prefer a little bit more complexity and flavor, it felt a bit one note for me, but that one note wasn't bad!
I found this a bit too 'earthy' on the first brew, slightly better on the second brew. I added some honey, which greatly improved the taste.
An okay Oolong. Not my favorite flavor notes. I sampled this Tea as part of the CommuniTEA September 2020 box. I don't think I would drink it again
Update 2025 still just okay, very veggie flavor notes like drinking salad. Meh
I like the tea it tastes nice but I only had one steep. I thought that was enough.
I absolutely loved this tea I love the fact that this tea tasted so roasted but also so delicious this is something I'll definitely buy during the Fall again
Similar to the fujian rain tea in that it has an upfront hardy, roasted flavor, although I find this particular tea is somewhat less heavy on said roasted, toasty notes and more subdued which allows the flavor of the leaves to come through better.
I’ve never interacted with any Wuyi, but this is delightful. You can feel the smooth, silky flavors combining with the earthy, nutty notes. I didn’t taste any carmel-type aftertaste, but the aftertaste was a very nice flavor, reminiscent of a peanut sauce.
I wanted to like this one more than I actually did. The notes in the description mentioned smoky character due to the roasting process. Having had similar green teas with this profile (like hojicha), I was expecting a similar task and this one I didn't like as much.
Decent, middle ground, oolong tea. Nice scent and flavor.
Probably my favorite oolong so far. It’s leaves are green-brown, but the taste is less vegetal than the green oolongs. Earthy, but slightly sweet as well. I like to give the oolongs an extra long steep, 5-8 mins
This is one of my all time favorites, and always a bonus is that it lasts for multiple infusions. I don't get the notes listed, to me it reminds me of the smell of a stone cellar, of all things. It does pair well with sweets, though it's delicious on its own. I'll have this on hand as long as it's available!
This has an unexpected flavor I can't quite put my finger on. Maybe the 'mineral' from the description? Whatever it is, I like it, but it doesn't blow my mind. Seems like a good candidate for my endless Russian Caravan blends.
I picked up on the smoky nuttiness in this one, very nice tea
A nice mineral-y oolong tea. It makes a good everyday oolong
Wuyi Ensemble was an introduction to oolongs for me, and it has stuck with me for its refined character. The natural nutty and sesame aromatics are very forward, yielding to the minerality spoken to by some other oolongs of this kind, as well as some floral and complex aromatics I can't quite place. The earthiness is grounding and balanced by a honeyed sweetness and smoothness which makes for a pleasant experience each time I try it.
This one was too savory for my personal taste. My daughter really enjoyed it though. I prefer my oolongs darker. 185° for 3 minutes.
Delicious oolong. A complex tea with lovely buttery caramel notes.A slight mineral earthy taste noted. I added a little raw honey.
I don't have the refined palate, so I don't get the aromas and flavors that others do. I steeped for 3 min @ 165. The tea was easy to drink, no bitterness. I like green Oolongs better.
This is an oolong with personalitea. The taste is hard to describe, something between nutty and floral.
This is a very yummy tea. I taste the mineral and nuttiness. Monk fruit sweetener is a good addition. I'm adding this to my favorites.
Very good oolong tea. Heavy on the mineral taste with nuances of smokiness and honey that shine through.
This is the tea that made me realize just how much I like oolong. One of my favorite tea-flavored teas. Nicely layered and extremely smooth, a bit floral without being perfume-y, not bitter at all even when steeped a bit too long. Continually delicious even in a second brew. A+ for this one!
While not my favorite, I am really coming around to Oolongs. At first I was a bit put off about the earthy/musty toasted notes however, as I drank it I found myself enjoying it more and more. I did re-steep several times and had slightly different flavors each round.
wonderfully earthy and sweet, a perfect cuppa for me today.
Extremely nice earthy tea. One of the better oolongs that I have tried.
This is an outstanding Oolong, it was quite enjoyable. It has a nice minerally flavor, bold but smooth. I can see this being very nice after a sweet treat.
The scent to this tea has strong floral notes. There is a distinctive taste that I’m not crazy about.
It’s been a while since I last had this tea and it did not disappoint! Complex, rich, and smooth this one is in my top 5 teas.
This is one of the better oolongs I’ve tried. Easy to brew for just a couple minutes, then put directly into the next cup to bre a little longer.
I love oolongs, and I am really enjoying this one. It has a strong, but pleasant minerality and a hint of vegetal, it is smooth and hard to set down.
Today’s tea has a slight nutty flavor as it cools. I did enjoy the tea.
This was really special I thought- light but really flavorful; buttered toast/warm straw scent, slightly savory- sweetener would ruin it in my opinion
Everything I look for and want in a good oolong. (Admittedly, I am a fan of oolongs.) It can be hard to believe that one tea can be robust yet light, fruity yet nutty, sweet yet smoky. That each sip brings a symphony of flavors that dance in your mouth; evolving and changing with each sip. A tea that is one thing hot, another cooled, and still even different when iced.
This is a hearty, rich oolong. I can taste nuttiness, followed by a hint of sweetness and florals.
Communitea 3/27/24: I am perhaps spoiled by the higher quality Da Hong Pao that I have purchased through Adagio in the past. This is a delicious Oolong tea no doubt and I'm sure had I not already experienced the pricier version I would have loved it- but it's a bit rougher than its more expensive variant in a way I can't quite describe. A little more bitter, harsher on the palate and with a slightly less sweet aftertaste. Regardless, it is still a Da Hong Pao and quite delicious, retaining the great dry 'minerality' one expects of it- like drinking a mineral water. If the Wuyi Da Hong Pao variant weren't on sale half off as of the writing of this, I think this would be a great option as the difference is not worth that much of a jump in price to me- but as it is, I'd rather pay the extra $7 for the fancier tin version.
This tea has a light, toasty and mineral taste to it. It is a pleasant cup of tea but it wasn’t as flavorful as I was hoping it would be.