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With this one, it is hard to get the same taste every-time. I must say, this cake doesn’t taste as good as the 2007 Yunnan Liming Raw Pu’er Tea by Liming Tea Factory that I bought at Berylleb King Tea on ebay. So, I must lower my rating for this one.

One 15 seconds rinse, 1st brew 3:00 minutes: Small first sip taste earthy, resinous with a hint of bitterness. It is less tasty than the other brews that I did in the past. As it cool down it is more sweeter without bitterness and the earthy flavour is almost gone.

2nd brew at 4:00 minutes: It taste the same as the first brew.

Water Used: Nestle Pure Life

1 Rinse, 1st brew 3:00 min; second brew 4:30 min. : This is a delicate mellow sweet brown sugar tea with a hint of a lightly resinous taste, slightly bitter and earthy. A Subtle, and nice tea with a little bit of dryness and smokiness.

WATER USED: Nestle Pure Life

15 seconds rinse, 1st brew 3:00 min: Slightly resinous with a hint of bitterness at the first sip. Subsequent sipping taste like a mix of lemon and lime, it feel citrusy in the mouth with a slight resinous after taste. Ending with a clean taste with no bitterness.

Second brew at 4:30 min. feel earthy with tingling sensation and taste like ground black pepper — slightly bitter with earthy taste. The bitterness is stronger as the tea cool down with a slightly smoky tase.

WATER USED: Nestle Pure Life

This is my second review of this tea using different water type with same brew parameters. – A tea that I like to drink on a rainy day -

1st brew (3:40 Sec.): A medium sour and bitter dark chocolate tea. This brew is stronger if you using Naya Natural Water than the Nestle Pure Life bottle water.

The bitterness, sour and dark chocolate flavours are less pronounced as you drink it, and cocoa flavour is starting to reveal itself. If you like more the cocoa flavour than the dark chocolate, you should use Naya Natural Spring Water instead of Nestle Pure Life.

2nd brew (4:25 Sec.): It taste sweeter, less sour and bitter with dark chocolate and cocoa notes.

WATER USED: Naya Natural Spring Water

15 seconds rinse.
1st stepping 2:00 minutes; 2nd steeping 3:00 minutes and last steeping 4:00 minutes.

Taste good, a light creamy sweet vegetal fresh salty marine tea. I can feel an after toasty taste. As you brew more of it, after swallowing it, I can taste a very light grassy citrusy flavours that disappear quickly. At the last cup I had, it taste vanilla with a more citrusy flavour.

It feel first warm on both my arms and then in the middle of my chest, very comforting.

It is way better than the Gu Zao Oolong Organic but not as good as the Jin Xuan Oolong (both are from World of Tea).

WATER USED: Nestle Pure Life

First stepping 1:40 and second steeping 2:10, Definitely taste like raspberry with a very slight touch of bitterness. The rose flavour increase over time as you drink the tea. It feel-taste like as if I was walking in a forest — there is a taste that I have difficult to pin point maybe like a rainforest kind of.

A night under a full moon, I feel relaxed and drifting in dreams. A warm gentle breeze on my skin, walking into a forest hearing piano notes. The infinity, I don’t want to wake up.

WATER USED: Nestle Pure Life

15 seconds rinse.

1st stepping 2:00 minutes; second stepping 2:30 minutes: Begin with a sweet vegetal-fruit taste, almost no bitterness. Flavour of this tea is a little bit too strong, not as good as the Jin Xuan Oolong sold by World of Tea.

WATER USED: Nestle Pure Life

20 sec. rinse. Smell like earthy milk chocolate.

1st step 2:20 min. : Mellow taste, it is watery sweet, slightly milk chocolate and earthy — it lack flavours (it is too weak). The 908 is not particularly complex.

The earthy flavour is more pronounce as the tea cool down, it taste less watery with a medium dryness.

Second step 4:20 min. : The tea is stronger and taste better. Still taste a little bit watery. Now I taste a new woody earthy flavour with a little bit of bitterness.

I recommend to rinse this tea for 30 sec and steep this tea for 4:00 min. for 2 tsp / 250 ml. I don’t recommend to boil at 212 degree F, try instead 205 degree F. Also, wait a little bit before drinking so the tea can cool down a bit, it will taste better.

WATER USED: Nestle Pure Life

“The ‘Jin Xuan’ Oolong, aka Milk Oolong”
Oolong need to be rinse once, so that the tea leave can open up. This is a high quality tea without any flavourings that you can find in some “Milk Oolong”. First stepping, 2:00 minutes: It smell and taste lightly milky and vegetal with a touch of sweetness. As it cool down there is a light peachy flavour. It taste eventually like butter turning to a creamy tea. This tea is slightly dry as you drink more of it. Second stepping, 2:30 minutes: The milky flavour is starting to disappear, now it is more buttery and creamy. The vegetal notes of the tea is getting more present when it cooling down with a slightly bitterness starting to show up. WATER USED: Nestle Pure Life.

Western Style – 2 Rinses, 1st brew – 2 min. 15 sec. : Tingling sensation… At the first sip you can definitely taste a mix of woody, earthy and green bitter flavours going softer as you drink it. Plus the smoke flavour has an effect on all the other’s flavours. As it cool down a sweetness develop that change into a slightly honey note. While the flavours are less pronounced after a few sips, except for the sweet honey, the bitterness is slightly too strong for my taste (too much leaves? Perhaps!)

I recommend to brew less leaves for 1:45 to 2 minutes at 200 F (93 Celsius) if you wants less bitterness.

WATER USED: Nestle PureLife