today's tea is a fresh green Dong Ding Oolong that i got my hands on in Chinatown of Yokohama, Japan at a store of the company Ding Yun, link at the end of this blog article.
Dong Ding Oolong is grown on the Dong Ding Mountain Range of Taiwan.
It's said that the plants were brought from the Wuyi Region in China about 150 years ago.
the leaves are green and smell milky and of high quality.
a wonderful aroma comes out after the rinsing with flavors of sweet milk, green tea and even a bit vanilla.
the brew has a green-yellowish transparent tone, and begins with tastes of sweet milk and typical fresh green oolong flavor that transforms with further brews to a chestnut flavor with a hint of bitter cabbage which is typcial for taiwan oolongs, that gets stronger to the end of the session.
the leaf quality is ok and tends to a "good" rating. some leaves are ripped a little, i've seen better, but i've also seen much worse. the company states that all their teas are 100% hand picked and of high quality.
daily facts:
at the start of the session it's a high quality oolong with great and wonderful aroma, the transformation to a little more bitter cabbagy tea that loses most of it's delicate sweet and milky traits more and more after few steeps reduces the fun factor for me. i've seen taiwan oolongs that can hold a sweet and pleasing aroma until finished.. so a rating between medium good and very good should be fair here. sold at a price of 13 USD / 50g it fits in the medium price range for taiwan oolongs.
daily rating:
3.7 / 5
links:
http://www.dingyuntea.com/Japanese/
https://www.facebook.com/teiunchakura/
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