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What-Cha's Fujian Milk Oolong Jin Xuan & Beautiful Taiwan Tea's Golden Lily Oolong
Today
I am going to write a little something different then my thoughts on my first
impressions of trying teas. Spoiler alert, I really enjoy the teas I’ve tried
from both What-Cha and Beautiful Taiwan Tea, so I thought I’d compare two
similar yet very different Jin Xuans. I love both of them, but for very
different reasons.
What-Cha’s
Fujian Milk Oolong
This
is a very unique Milk Oolong, which isn’t much of a surprised as I am always pleasantly
surprised by What-Cha’s teas distinctiveness; this is a flavored Milk Oolong
which is a little off putting to a lot of people. I’d probably have skipped
this if it wasn’t from What-Cha, I’ll admit it I am a little prejudiced against
flavored Jin Xuans, especially flavored ones from China, but I
decided to take a risk and purchase it.
And
I am glad that I took the risk. This is the best flavored Milk Oolong I have
ever had, ok that bar isn’t set very high, but this along with the Golden Lily
Oolong is my favorite Jin Xuan that I have tried this year. There are a lot of different
tastes in this. If this was from that Tea
Company that everyone knows it would probably be called something like “Majestic
Tropical Milk Flowery Oolong”, ok probably something more ridiculous then that.
The major flavors in this is Mango, Toasted Coconut, Butterscotch, and Orchid;
while some of the minor notes are milk, pineapple and a little vegetal. While I
don’t drink a lot of flavored teas, but from what I understand most flavored teas
cannot be steeped more than once without a significance loss in flavor; I got
four long (three minutes first steeping, four minutes second steeping, six minutes
third steeping and seven minutes for my fourth) before the leaves started to
feel completely used up.
Beautiful Taiwan
Tea’s Golden Lily Oolong
Unlike
What-Cha’s Jin Xuan this is unflavored. This was the first of BTT’s that I have
tried and this is the tea that sold me on the company, while it isn’t as
nuanced as the other GeoShanCha at BTT, it is wonderful, I almost want to say
it is my favorite, but whenever I purchase this tea I always drink it all
within a week and I won’t want to drink anything else besides this tea.
This
feels like a more traditional Jin Xuan, and unlike the Fujian Milk oolong from
What-cha, this has a very thick mouthfeel, almost syrupy. This is primarily
milky (more a sweet creamy butter then milk though), but I can taste a little
bit of nutty vegetables, and some strong floral notes. While I don’t have as
much to say about this Jin Xuan, I’ll just say this leaves me breathless and
when I am done I regret not having more.
While
both are very different Jin Xuans, I have been comparing all Milk oolongs to
these two, and most fall short. I’ve
bought 150g of What-Cha’s Fujian Milk Oolong within two weeks and I have no
idea how much I’ve bought of Beautiful Taiwan Tea’s Golden Lily Oolong, I have
at least four empty bags littering the bottom of my box of tea. I was actually
surprised that Alistair had his Milk Oolong since starting his store and I hadn’t
noticed it. If you like oolongs, you should definitely try both these teas,
both are good introductions to the seller’s sites.
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