#rockoolong — Public Fediverse posts
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What tea do you drink on your birthday? Do you pick a special tea or a special type of tea? Or just drink your usual teas? I picked this "Lotus Peak Shui Xian" from Tong Xin She Teahouse as a special tea to start the day and the next year of my life.
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"Mysterious Orchid" from Tong Xin She Teahouse is a very low oxidation and lighter roast. Orchid fragrance strongly dominant with some small woody backbone. Even a tad of returning sweetness on the aftertaste. A very nice rock oolong, if a bit atypical. A rock tea for Tie Guan Yin lovers.
#RockOolong #Yancha #TongXinSheTeaHouse #Tea #Cha #DailyTea @tea
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Second tea from the 2023 Rock Tea flight from Tong Xin She is Cinnamon aka Rou Gui. Slightly lower oxidation on the Rou Gui than the previous Shui Xian, lighter highlights, tighter perfume.
#RockTea #Yancha #RockOolong #TongXinSheTeaHouse #Tea #Cha #DailyTea @tea
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Most years, Tong Xin She Teahouse, based near Wuyi, China, releases a collection of some of their favorite Rock Oolongs from the previous year. One of my annual indulgences is to pick up one of the luxuriously packaged sets.
#RockOolong #YanCha #TongXinSheTeaHouse #Tea #Cha #DailyTea @tea
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Interestingly, this Iron Arhat (2024 release) from White2Tea is the lightest oxidation and roast of the three recent Rock Oolongs. Also the largest leaves and most uneven sort. Enjoyable, all the same.
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Qi Lan is the final rock oolong of the 2021 Tong Xin She Teahouse yancha flight.
#Yancha #RockOolong #TongXinSheTeaHouse #Tea #Cha #Oolong #DrinkTea #DailyTea
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Penultimate rock oolong from Tong Xin She Teahouse' yancha flight, Bai Rui Xiang, aka White Winter Daphne. A fragrance forward oolong.
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Yancha holiday continues with Yue Ming Xiang rock oolong from Tong Xin She Teahouse. Lighter oxidation, lighter roast oolong. The name apparently means, "the aroma of lucid moon" and is traditionally drunk during full moon festivals.
#Yancha #RockOolong #TongXinSheTeaHouse #Tea #Cha #Oolong #DrinkTea #GongFuCha
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Trying this experimental black tea pot from Jiri Duchek (via Pu-Erh.sk) with some everyday Da Hong Pao from Tong Xin She Teahouse. Hm. Might be too porous, maybe Shu Puerh instead?
#Yancha #RockOolong #TongXinSheTeaHouse #PuErhSk #JiriDuchek #Tea #Cha #DrinkTea #DailyTea
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Second tea from the White2Tea 2023 rock oolongs, "meizhan". According to their website, meizhan is usually heavily represented in "da hong pao" blends, but this is pure meizhan. Fairly heavy roast and oxidation, this is a pretty serious rock oolong.
#RockOolong #Yancha #White2Tea #Oolong #Wulong #Tea #Cha #DailyTea @tea
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The 2021 Stone Milk from White2Tea is another lighter roast/oxidation style rock oolong, making it quite fragrance forward.
#RockOolong #Yancha #Oolong #Wulong #White2Tea #Tea #Cha #DailyTea @tea
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2022 release Spring Peach rock oolong from White2Tea. This is good, but it is my least favorite of their 2022 rock oolongs. Something about the roast/oxidation/flavor just doesn't quite do it for me. I do prefer heavier oxidation/roast levels and Spring Peach is on the lighter-medium side for both. Also, tea monster has returned, recovered from his cat accident broken foot. Here's hoping it holds up to future pours!
#Yancha #RockOolong #Oolong #Wulong #White2tea #Tea #Cha #DailyTea @tea
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2021 Superfine (tèjí) Rou Gui from Old Ways Tea Company. Phil and Mengjiao from Old Ways seem like super nice people AND they ship their teas from near me in California. How could I NOT order and try their rock oolongs?
#RockOolong #Yancha #OldWaysTeaCompany #Oolong #Wulong #Tea #Cha #DailyTea @tea
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Another take on Iron Arhat Rock Oolong, this one (2023) from Rivers and Lakes Tea. While it isn't as exceptional as the version from Tong Xin She, it is very good (and quite a bit cheaper). Good traditional rock tea flavor, but lacks a bit in depth of character and impression of longevity.
#RockOolong #Yancha #RiversAndLakesTea #Tea #Cha #DailyTea @tea
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Rock Oolong season begins after Thanksgiving. Dug the Gaopan out of storage and found this sample, not sure what year, to start the season. Iron Arhat (Tie Luo Han) is always a favorite rock oolong type.
#RockOolong #YanCha #TongXinSheTeaHouse #Tea #Cha #DailyTea @tea
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2022 Da Wang Feng Shi Ru (aka "Rock Milk") Rock Oolong from Ho Yum Tea has changed a lot since I last tried it this summer. Still has the fragrance I remember, but the mineral/rock aspect seems much stronger in the flavor. A great tea, but not a tea you would give to someone as their first rock oolong.
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Alas, this dose of "shuixian" is the last of the 2023 rock oolong samples from last year's tea club. Well, onward...
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2023 "jin guan yin" from White2Tea is my style Rock Oolong, medium-heavy roast and oxidation. Chewy.
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"jinmudan" rock tea varietal is a result of a cross between "tie guan yin" and "huangdan". Can definitely taste the tie guan yin in its ancestry. White2Tea 2023 release.
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As far as I know 2023 was the first time White2Tea released a rock oolong based on the "foshou" (or "Buddha's Hand") varietal, a lesser known varietal I've been curious to try. It is a medium-heavy roast and medium oxidation take on the rock oolong style.
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25g doesn't divide evenly by 8g, so this is a bottom of the bag blend of 2g each of the four 2021 White2Tea rock oolong I've been drinking recently: Orchid Heart, Ban Tian Yao, Stone Milk, and Spring Peach. Pretty, pretty good...
#RockOolong #Yancha #White2Tea #Oolong #Tea #Cha #DailyTea @tea
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"Stone Milk" rock oolong from White2Tea this morning. Last full dose of the 2021 teas.
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Back home, back on my winter rock oolong jag. Orchid Heart from White2Tea.
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Stone Milk rock oolong from White2Tea. I always found it confusing when the name of oolongs included "milk". It seemed odd that a culture that doesn't really drink cow milk would call tea after that flavor. Asking some Chinese tea friends they explained the name means more like "Milk of the Rocks" or "Essence of Rocks". The idea being, these tea plants grow on the rocky outcrops in Wuyi and are extracting the essence of the rocks as they grow and that's what you taste in the tea.
#TheMoreYouKnow #RockOolong #Yancha #White2Tea #Tea #Cha #DailyTea @tea
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2021 Orchid Heart rock oolong from White2Tea. I'm tempted to use the description of rock tea from a tea friend's six year old every time I drink it, "What is that horrible smell? It smells like mango and steamed wood, and a little bit like gingerbread, and like tea! Ugh!"
#RockOolong #Yancha #White2Tea #Tea #Cha #DailyTea @tfb @tea
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Orchid Heart rock oolong from White2Tea warming my body and hands this grey morning.
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Celebrating tea box recycling day with some Spring Peach rock oolong from White2Tea.
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What seems like a decade ago, I ordered a few teas from Jon at Tong Xin She Teahouse. These teas remain my gold standard for how Rock Oolong should taste. This is a 2018 Wu San Di Rou Gui that came in that bunch.
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Ban Tian Yao (or "Waist Halfway to the Sky") rock oolong from White2Tea for this Dec 24.
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Oolong Sunday, Spring Peach Rock Oolong from White2Tea.
#RockOolong #Yancha #White2Tea #Oolong #Tea #Cha #DailyTea @tea
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Rock Oolong Wednesday, Ban Tian Yao from White2Tea, 2022 release.
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2022 Bantianyao rock oolong from White2Tea. The light color of the tea soup belies the complex and slightly burly nature of this tea. One of my favorites of White2Tea's 2022 yancha or rock oolong tea.
#RockOolong #YanCha #White2Tea #WulongCha #Tea #Cha #DailyTea @tea
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2021 Qi Lan from Old Ways Tea Co is a medium-light roast and medium oxidation style rock oolong. Definitely fragrance forward with a sweet core. I would call it an easy to drink and unchallenging example of the style.
#RockOolong #YanCha #OldWaysTeaCompany #WulongCha #Cha #Tea #DailyTea @tea
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2021 Huang Guan Yin Rock Oolong from Old Ways Tea has just improved with a little more rest. Plus, they ship from CA, so easier on the patience to order from them than the Chinese based vendors. And further, I really like that they have the per gram prices for their teas listed on their website. Wish more vendors did that!
#OolongTea #WulongCha #YanCha #RockOolong #OldWaysTeaCompany #Tea #Cha #DailyTea @tea
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Rock Oolong for a rainy Sunday. Old Tree Rou Gui (Lao Shu Rou Gui) from Old Ways Tea Company. (Old Ways are based in the South Bay! One of our local SFBA tea companies!)
#RockTea #RockOolong #Oolong #RouGui #OldWaysTeaCompany #Tea #Cha #DailyTea @tea
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Revisiting Lao Cong Shui Xian rock oolong from Old Ways Tea Co with my trusty Yixing pot.
#Yancha #RockOolong #Oolong #OldWaysTeaCompany #Cha #Tea #DailyTea @tea
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Brewing Yellow Rose Rock Oolong from Tong Xin She Teahouse in my trusty (battered) Zhuni Yixing Gaopan pot.
#Yancha #RockOolong #Oolong #FudingTea #Tea #Cha #DrinkTea #TongXinSheTeaHouse #DailyTea
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Post thanksgiving, fall rock oolong tea season starts in earnest. 2015 Lao Cong Shui Xian from Tong Xin She Teahouse. One of my all time favorite teas. Thank you!
#OolongTea #RockOolong #YanCha #TongXinSheTeaHouse #Tea #Cha #DailyTea @tea
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Advent rock oolong calendar continues with No 4, Golden Water Turtle 🐢 from Tong Xin Teahouse.
#Yancha #RockOolong #GoldenWaterTurtle #ShuiJinGui #FujianTea #Tea #DrinkTea #TongXinSheTeaHouse #DailyTea