Chinese Oolong
9
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7 ratings |
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Commercial Description
The smooth tasting blend of oolong tea enjoyed in fine Chinese restaurants.
Ratings & Reviews
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75 Aroma: 7/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 5/5Tchuggin' Okie (432 reviews) on Jul. 29th, 2025
I expected a rather bland, uninteresting oolong, based on the big-brand mass production and long-ago reviews here, but came away rather impressed. The dry-bag aroma mixes toasted rice with moist hay or newly mowed alfalfa, while still picking up the underlying base tea.
The taste came across nice and strong, as if somebody took a typical oolong flavor and turned up the volume knob a few notches. I like that! There's a little bit of grassy or vegetal element to the flavor too, which gets more pronounced through the sip and into the aftertaste, then sticks around a long time. It's not an unpleasant, "underside of lawn mower" grassiness either, but instead, a similar rice-like quality as the dry aroma, and as I've found in Japanese green teas. That was a pleasant surprise. The aftertaste does start bittering up after a few seconds, though, so hurry up and take the next sip, or wash the last one out with another beverage or your favorite antiseptic mouth rinse. Wet-bag scent was straight tea, much like a few of Murchie's many green-black tea blends.
For the price—standard Bigelow rate at most supermarkets, which is usually less expensive than all but store brands or Lipton—the value is hard to beat. Sure, there are better oolongs out there, but not many in bags, and none I've found yet at this price point.
50 Aroma: 4/10 Flavor: 3/5 Value: 3/5Alex (45 reviews) on May. 7th, 2018
A dark oolong with a nutty and buttery taste. It lacks the complexity of a higher quality oolong, but it has the advantage of being cheap and available at grocery stores. I actually prefer it cold brewed, and the ease of putting two bags in a water bottle overnight to take with me the next day is the only reason I'd get it again.
40 Aroma: 4/10 Flavor: 2/5 Value: 3/5Andreas (6 reviews) on Sep. 20th, 2012
i used to like it at the thai restaurant, then i don't know what happened - i dislike it now
60 Aroma: 7/10 Flavor: 3/5 Value: 2/5bryght (9 reviews) on Oct. 28th, 2011
Not my favourite Oolong brand, but it's always fresh and has a buttery flavour which is very appealing to me. The problem is that if you over-steep it, it tastes like a mouthful of dirty grass mingled with an odour of cat pee.
43 Aroma: 5/10 Flavor: 2/5 Value: 3/5Pancakes (23 reviews) on May. 16th, 2011
The aroma of this tea is sweet, full, and strong. The tea brews to a dark amber brown, and is quite opaque for this type of tea. The tea itself is quite full-bodied and warming, which is a nice quality. The initial taste of the tea is full and rich, but halfway through a sip, the flavor becomes flat, boring, and lifeless. In fact, this tea can almost taste dusty, and maybe it actually is dusty? This seems to be related to the general opacity of the tea.
This tea would be better if it had greater complexity and clarity. If tea drinkers new to wulong tea first tried this brand, they might be confused, as the overall effect of the tea is inconsistent.
In this price range, there are definitely better representatives of wulong tea. Ten Ren's "Oolong Tea" is a similarly priced wulong and in this same style, but is quite a bit better. Ten Ren's "Tikuanyin" and Foojoy's "China Classic Oolong" are a bit darker and stronger, but better values for bagged wulong in this range.
53 Aroma: 3/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 3/5Linda Martin (50 reviews) on Mar. 10th, 2010
It's not my favorite, but it is good in the morning.
40 Aroma: 4/10 Flavor: 2/5 Value: 2/5Alex Zorach (1453 reviews) on Dec. 8th, 2009
A darker oolong, somewhat nondescript. No objectionable qualities but overall weak and not very interesting. Not much of the complexity that I expect. I think this one lags behind the quality of Bigelow's flavored teas.
In tea bags of a similar price range, I think Ten Ren offers better oolongs, and they have several to choose from.
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