Xin Qing GABA Oolong Tea GABA Tea Jia Ye Oolong Taiwan High Mountain Tea 150g

I am a tea lover and this Lishan Oolong tea really amazes me. First of all, the quality of the tea leaves is very high, each piece has been carefully selected, and the brewed tea soup is clear and bright, with a strong tea aroma. It has a very smooth taste without any bitterness, and the tea soup has a long-lasting aroma. I especially enjoy this tea in the afternoon, it makes me feel calm and relaxed. Also, the packaging is beautiful and can be given as a gift for tea lovers. I highly recommend this Li Shan oolong tea, it is definitely a 5 star product!

Lishan Oolong is one of the most amazing oolongs I have tasted so far. Its tea leaves look like handcrafted works of art, with every leaf flawless. The foaming process is full of surprises, and the tea leaf unfurls from its curled shape, releasing a mixture of floral and fruity aromas. The tea has a bright amber color, while its taste is very smooth with a soft sweetness. I have found Li Shan Oolong Tea to be great for meditation and relaxation, and every sip is filled with serenity and peace. I highly recommend it to all tea lovers, a real gem.

It is just an ok, or below average tea. There is no after taste, almost no flavor at all. I had better tea at this price range.

Dayuling is my favorite type of tea and I’ve been drinking it for years… it’s how I start my day and I have come to depend on it, even though it’s pricey. I’ve tried getting it from many different sources, including a few on Amazon. Some of them just really aren’t that great, and many are $90 or more for the 150g bag. I normally get mine from mountaintea.com at $68 and that’s the gold standard for me, but this one is about as good and it’s even less expensive.

Very good High Mountain Tea.

Refreshingly peaceful experience.

The title pretty much tells all for my fist impressions since receiving it earlier today. To start out I’m brewing this gongfu style with a ratio of 5g to 120ml of water and hitting it at 95°C starting off with a 10s rinse to help open the tightly rolled leaves.The dried leaves look okayish. Knew what I was potentially getting into with buying off of Amazon out of impatience and wanting to restock on a Taiwanese oolong asap, as well as just was curious to try some out on here and see if there are any good tea sellers on here. Upon opening the vacuum sealed bag of tea the dry leaf aroma was pleasant. A little fruity, a little floral, and a bit of mountian air after the rain.Preheating my Gaiwan and Teaware I always stop to see the scent of the dry leaf in a more humid environment where you can smell it more clearly it enhanced the aroma a tiny bit but nothing really of note and still fairly faint which is where my concern first started. The first steep after the rinse was very very light, which can be the case with tight rolled oolongs such as this one. very light flowery flavor and aroma mixing with some of a pear like fruitiness. The second came out a bit more clear, but so did some of the issues I have with this tea. It has a weird itchiness in the throat to it. It starts out as a note of spice. Like you’re cooking the mentioned pears with cinnamon and nutmeg, but then it goes to this dry just very unrefined leafy flavor. Third steep proved the same and dint evolve much more and already started showing signs it wouldn’t last many more steeps. Not nearly the 10 I expect from a good Taiwanese oolong. Fourth and fifth just were disappointing, the flavors being more like water with a touch of fruit. Sixth it was more than spent in my opinion.Thinking maybe I should switch up what cup I’m using and using half the usual of my water remineralization recipe I use to help get more extraction thinking maybe the water is too hard for it and it wants something more around 40ppm to really shine it just came up with similar results.Lishan oolongs from my experience should be light and ethereal but with enough structure and backing to the flavor that you can taste it. And most importantly the taste lingers as you breathe out. It should be a bouquet of light fruit florals that give way to fruits such as apples and pears with a background of cooked vegetables on top of a creamy and thick texture in the mouth. The aroma should fill the room upon hitting it with water for the first steep. And it should be able to be a companion throughout a long portion of the day, not just barely the first two steeps.I think that where the lack of flavor comes from is the processing of this tea. To my knowledge it looks unevenly oxidized. Splotches of light green and dark brown can be seen on the leaf when it should be fairly consistent throughout in order to give a balanced experience. Maybe too the rolling process and breaking down of the cell walls to get the leaves juices more accessible to the hot water didn’t go on as long or wasn’t done as skillfully as I prefer so it’s just all around harder to pull out the flavors I look for.Overall had an idea what I was getting into at the price point. $36ish for 150g is very inexpensive compared to what high quality ones can cost, but oh wow does the extra labor put into it justify the price of them so well. It was nice and clear throughout the steeps which was nice to see as well. Didn’t look cloudy or unclean. Steeped up a brilliant yellow-green so they do know what they are doing a bit for the processing but something just doesn’t feel like it hit the mark.I’m going to store some in a clay jar to see if it just needs to breathe and settle a bit more and compare it later to some left in the original tin. Maybe it just hasn’t had time to settle into itself and I’m going to regret the two star review later on. Maybe this years harvest overall was off due to it being too dry or too rainy, I haven’t done research into how well the weather had treated the harvest.It’s an okayish general drinker but not one I’m reaching for every day. Going to also see if it shines more cold brewing as well and will update in a few months if anything improves but right now the first impression isn’t a shining golden one.

It looks like tea, it brews like tea, but it tastes like . . . nothing.