I am a big fan of teas with animalistic taste and smell, and this oolong fits into this category. The taste is pretty deep and mouth-filling. Survived four or five infusions. Slight tar notes are starting to appear. Good charcoal oolong, but I happened to try its better versions.

I am a big fan of teas with animalistic taste and smell, and this oolong fits into this category. The taste is pretty deep and mouth-filling. Survived four or five infusions. Slight tar notes are starting to appear. Good charcoal oolong, but I happened to try its better versions.

It's hard for me not to compare this to other teas, as my entire tasting experience is based off those teas, but I have this "ideal" of what Tieguanyin should taste like. That holds true for light, medium, and dark roasts, and this one doesn't quite hold up to what an "ideal" dark roast should taste like. This tea has a wonderful pumpkin-like taste in the first few steeps that mingles well with notes of cocoa and a hint of syrup, but it's always overshadowed by a citrus-like taste that doesn't fully fit well with the tea. As steeps continue, the citrus flavor starts to overpower the notes of the earlier steeps, and all that is left is a citrus-like taste overshadowed by a tase reminiscent more of the "aroma" of the tea. For $10.00/50g though, it's pretty nice, and i feel every tea has its use. As a daily drinking TGY, this would certainly be a good tea, but it isn't something i'd take out for a gathering.

Nice to compare spring and autumn roastesd TGY I tend to like more the -in-the-face aroma of the autumn and my girlfriend likes the more delicate spring

Nice to compare spring and autumn roastesd TGY I tend to like more the -in-the-face aroma of the autumn and my girlfriend likes the more delicate spring