★★★★☆
This has a pleasant mineral taste and a bit of the bite of peach to it.
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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This has a pleasant mineral taste and a bit of the bite of peach to it.
Kind of a 'meh' black tea, nothing special. I thought it would have a more complex flavor.
One of my favorites. I've been getting this tea loose but just got in bags for more convenience.
A lovely tea for me, as the weather begins heralding summer. Also excellent for tea drinkers not familiar with this kind of tea.
A very smooth and tasty oolong, one of my husband's favorites.
This is the staple. Rustic, earthy and bold but not overpowering. Provides as many as three infusions before it starts to taste watered down. I would suggest this tea to those who like the bai hoa and dancong oolongs as well as the yunnan gold/black teas. Strength is not too subject to infusion time. Usually do about 3-5 minutes at 100 C.
My favorite of the higher oxidized style oolongs- savory and vegetal with a hint of smokiness for balance. Nice mineral notes too
I seem to prefer oolongs overall, and this is my favorite tea to date. The aroma reminds me of summer rain, but I find a more 'mineraly' flavor, as in some rieslings.
A solid comforting tea with medium astringency. It tastes like shortbread to me, with a nice clean scent of honey and fresh bread and a creamy mouthfeel. Very satisfying and steeps well at the suggested temperature for usually three cups.
Update: I accidentally added milk to it today and it held up quite well - it brought out the mineral flavor a bit, oddly.
The price alone prevents me from keeping this constantly on hand, and instead part of a specialty rotation. Very distinctive dark oolong, with a lot of character. This is as far from a green oolong as you can get, and I for one wouldn't have it any other way.
This tea has a nice sweet honey flavor, if not a whole lot of depth. It's fairly tasty though and I enjoyed it without putting any milk in it (a rarity for me)
This is good tea, but the third steeping loses a lot of its flavor and aroma. Other than that, it's good, but not great for the price.
I don't typically drink oolong, but it was sent as a free sample. Very nice flavor, smooth mouthfeel. I may get some in the future!
This is wonderfully complex tea. The taste changes from first sip to the aftertaste, going through grassy flavors to malty flavors to an astringent aftertaste. This is pretty darn good.
Very nice 'dark' oolong. Doesn't have the vegetal taste of the green oblongs, but is flavorful.
I found a small gray porous stone in my bag of tea... The flavor (of the tea not the stone) is light, hard to describe, but has neither the astringency of green tea nor the bitter bite of a black tea. It's mellow and mild all the way through, but you definitely know it's there. When brewed, a coworker remarked he could smell 'sweet tea' from about 10 feet away. It is quite fragrant and stands up to at least 2-3 infusions.
This oolong tea took me a little by surprise. It has a very smooth taste with an almost nutty undertone. I was expecting it to be more on the black side of the tea spectrum, but the flavor was closer to the greens, so I refrained from using milk. I rarely if ever sweeten my teas because I like to get the full impact of a tea's taste and I think a tea should be able to 'hold its own' without sugar or honey (*ahem* chai being an exception to that rule *cough cough*). The Wuyi Ensemble definitely does a delicious job of holding its own and I look forward to enjoying another cup in the near future.
I was turned off by the barnyard smell and astringent taste, would not buy again.
This is an excellent tea! I would definately recommend trying this tea!
Surprisingly lighter than what I expected, but still delicious.
It was a really great flavor with the green tea taste.
I felt pretty neutral about this one. I think I like my malty teas to be more malty--compared to some of the others I've tried this one was a bit on the plain side.
One of my favorite oolong teas. I love the beautiful well-rounded flavor.
One of my top three favorite oolong teas. Good flavor and enjoyable scent
This tea almost tastes like Korean bori-cha, it's got a nutty and sweet taste to go with the smoke.
Dried tea smells of earthy vegetation with overtones of sweet raisins. Steeped tea smells like freshly cooked spinach. The brewed tea is a very light golden color and tastes slightly sweet, earthy, and mellow with a smooth finish.
I was hoping to like this and was not disappointed! I had tried a wuyi tea that someone brought back from China. The writing was in Chinese and I really had no idea how to get more. I did figure out it was a wuyi so thought I would give this a shot. If possible, this is even better. It has tastes of minerals and definitely a honey flavor despite not adding any sweeteners. I have only had one cup so far but I am really, really liking it. A lot.
The second and third steeps are better than the first, in my opinion.
Haven't try the new batch from adagio for quite a while. Last time I tried this tea, it was quite good. Hopefully it will only get better.
I have enjoyed this tea iced in the summer with just a hint of apricot flavored tea combined with it. It's a lovely way to cool down.
In the cooler months I enjoy this tea alone and prepare several infusions throughout the day. Each is a bit different but cozy and just right.
I am such a huge fan of oolong! This one is so good! just right! And that there are tea bags! Yay for work!
Has an earthy substantial taste to it. A hearty tea for the morning.
Wuyi tea is one of my favorites. This one has that classic smooth, light, almost smoky taste that I love. It takes longer to steep than other batches I've had or else the flavor is weak.
I used to buy tea from Amanzi tea, a company that I loved. Unfortunately they no longer sell tea, and I am searching for a wuyi or other oolong with a lot of flavor. This one is okay, but not fantastic.with the
This tea is very smooth like all the Oolong tea types I've had. It's good, but lacks personality unlike Fujian Rain for example.
Light,sweet and a lovely long finish. I have mine plain, no sweetener or milk. Sipped it slowly and it was still good when it got cold.
We love this oolong tea! Smooth, great taste. My husband drinks several cups every day.
I used to dislike this tea. The mineral, rock taste was unpleasant to me. But I just recently decided to give it another chance. And I love it now. It's subtly smoky with that taste of minerals and stone. And it's well-balanced with a bit of peach-pit sweetness. It may not be my favorite dark oolong (that honor will forever belong to the Dancong), but this is an outstanding tea.
Flavor is rich and full-bodied for an oolong. Unique flavor and aroma, slightly astringent. Love the huge leaves! Excellent.
Very different and complex. I like the fact that I can do multiple infusions to get different flavors.
Easily one of my favorite oolongs from Adagio. It's nutty and sort of sweet on its own. One of my favorites in cold weather. As others have said, this holds up well under multiple infusions.
I find myself a bit confused, this tea is labled as a Da Hong Pao, which is why I got it, but upon brewing it the tea looks, tastes, and smells more like a Dan Cong. Now don't get me wrong, this is a really tasty Dan Cong, I am just confused on how to rate it since I wanted a Da Hong Pao (one of my favorite of the Wuyi Yancha) Ah well!
An interesting oolong. I definitely suggest multiple steepings to explore the changes in flavor.
A decent but relatively unremarkable black tea. It was simply too light and mild for my taste. Lacks complex flavors and/or a slight, refreshing astringency.
This is my favorite tea. It is amazing and great to relax with.
The first infusion did not quite live up to the description, but this is still a nice tea. Oolong is my favorite variety, so I might be a bit harsh in my assessment. It does have a nice mineral backbone, but the forward flavor is more grassy than fruity. The aftertaste is not unpleasantly reminiscent of hay. The liquor is surprisingly light-colored. I almost thought I had brewed it at too low a temperature. There are a lot of layers to this tea, and it does not lose quality over multiple infusions.
complex, do not over steep. Love the dark rainy day taste. Could be a bit more flavorful
Compared to its lesser cousin, Fujian Rain, it has a lighter roasted flavor, but with a clean mouth finish and more complexity. If you have the money, I would consider it superior to Fujian Rain. (although Fujian Rain does pair better than this with food. RESTEEP/WASH THIS TEA. It's flavor evolves and changes with each resteeping.
A light tea that's nice and relaxing. I think I didn't put enough leaves in when I brewed it.
This is a good oolong. It has more depth of flavor than a lot of oolongs I've tried, but I will say it's not the most complex flavor. However, for it's price it's very good.