Ten Ren

Name pretty much describes it right as a milky oolong with a smooth creamy taste. Works out well with short gaiwan infusions but it has more limited brews than most green oolongs as it takes a turn for the bad once the milk flavoring is gone.

Iced! Pu-erh!

A pretty mild, earthy puerh. Nice creaminess and very smooth.

Not my favorite. The jasmine is so overwhelming, it’s hard to even call this tea. It’s more like “jasmine.” Ten Ren has a similarly priced Jasmine Green Tea 2nd Grade which is much better and still offers the taste of green tea amid the jasmine.

Ten Ren’s description on their web site does not do this tea justice. The oolong that they use is their King’s Tea, which is also flavored with ginseng. There are some really nice subtleties to this tea. Also, there are no osmanthus flowers left in the tea, so it is not as messy as their 2nd grade osmanthus.

When brewed using the gongfu method, this is a surprisingly tasty flavored tea. However, the osmanthus flowers in the tea make for messy clean up. We like to drink this in the summer.

This is a really nice dark oolong. It has a really full, rich flavor. It has gotten us through some pretty heavy winter weather here in the Northeast. I prefer to brew it gongfu style.

This is a really nice Jasmine Green Tea. However, I recommend just paying the extra $13/lb. for the 2nd grade, which is my favorite Jasmine tea.

This is a nice tea. However, Ten Ren’s 2nd grade Dark Oolong is much better and worth the extra cost. Very roasty and full flavor.

Ten Ren’s Special Pouchong pretty much tastes like a darker green tea to me. Gets a bit better reinfusions than most green teas and is easier to brew as a very green oolong. Although it is enjoyable to drink I do not think I will be reordering more when I finish what I have.

This has to be one of the best dark Ti Kuan Yin teas that I’ve had yet. A good mellow roast taste with a very smooth texture to the brew with a sweet finish. While I was initially hesitant to order this one from the “nice tin” and low price of only $15 for 300g I am glad that I did as this is rightly one of their most popular TKY products based upon its quality alone with its value and fancy packaging that makes it suitable for gift giving a nice bonus.

This Tung Ting comes off to me as being wonderfully in the middle in how it is darker than any green oolong that I have had before but is still lighter than a dark oolong, with a darker golden yellow brew. When gaiwan brewed with short infusions the tea produces fairly consistent brews with a smooth sweet taste that has a pleasant lack of an overwhelmingly floral taste.

I actually almost misidentified this as not being by Ten Ren, because it’s more prominently labeled as being from “Midori & Tea” . I am also going to admit that I bought this for the gorgeous tin that it’s in. I’ve actually had a whole bunch of teas labeled Oriental Beauty Tea that weren’t oolong as this is. I think my favorite was a Pu-ehr by Life Rising. This is mild and generally a good tea. It’s a good thing I’m enjoying it as much as I am, because I now have a lot of it. Tastes a lot gentler than your average Chinese restaurant oolong. Beauty enhancing effects? Unverified.
(I forgot to set the timer and steeped this a bit long. No harm done.)