Subtle sweet milky note. Nicely greenish color. Not bitter at all. Excellent for cold brew as well.

Lingering floral fragrance after multiple steeps.

Wonderful very smooth tea with subtle complex flavors. My favorite everyday tea. I've been searching for years for a black tea of this quality.

I took a chance on this tea (no sample to try) because my favorite black tea, the Award Winning Fengqing Dragon Pearl Black Tea, wasn't available. I am totally satisfied with the results. This tea is very smooth, not at all bitter and has the same chocolaty aroma as the Fengqing Dragon Pearl. I'm happy to have another option to add my repertoire.

Having never had GABA tea before, this is definitely the most unusual tea I've ever consumed. I will say upfront-- this is a tea you should probably order a sample of before getting a whole bag. Starting from the top: Dry leaves arrived in very good shape, due to the typical tight rolling of Taiwan oolong and Teavivre's excellent double-bagged packaging. Looks like a very leaf-heavy pick (also typical for Taiwan oolong and oolong in general) with some but not too many chunky stems. (If the tea processing is done well, stems can be an asset btw.) Placed in a hot gaiwan, it gives off the singular least tea-like smell I've ever smelled from Camellia Sinensis-- even flavored tea smells more unusual than this. The best analogy I can give is vanilla ice cream with a bit of lemon, I think? Brews up fairly dark-- which surprised me, most GABA teas I've seen reviewed/advertised brew light --with a disappointing lack of body, but a nice strong fruity flavor like advertised. Reminds me more of dried fruits like raisins or maybe (to stretch it a bit) dried cherries than anything else; I'm wondering if this was additionally roasted after the GABA process. There's a bit of an odd aftertaste that I can't really put words to, but for me it was pleasant-- not really sweet or spicy, just there. Overall, I'm not sure this'll become a regular item for me, but I'm glad to have tried it. I'm also not sure if the GABA is affecting me in any way, but I can say that (similar to a good theanine-rich green tea) it has yet to leave me feeling jittery or overstimulated.

It is beautiful. Pictures do not do it justice. I wish I could upload a video. Although it is too tiny to be useful for tea in my house. I am using it as a sugar pitcher. So I can add small amounts to my tea perfectly without over doing it. Worth every penny! I want another to use for cream.

The green oolong tea has nice floral notes that lingering through multiple steeps.

The pleasant milky note lingers through multiple steeps. Great to enjoy year round but specially nice for spring weather.

Subtle sweet milky note. Nicely greenish color. Not bitter at all. Excellent for cold brew as well.

I repurchased this one multiple time. The quality is decent for the price point and so much better than almost all jasmine tea sold in the US I have ever tried.

Lovely jasmine smell that lingering after multiple steeps. Great sipping hot, refreshing and not astringent on ice.

Lingering floral fragrance after multiple steeps.

This is almost white tea with delightful flavor profile. The jasmine fragrance is nice and strong. This tea does not tolerate high temperature well and can turn bitter when seeping too long, be sure you follow the recommended time and water temperature.

Better than Chi Cha San Chen! Pleasantly sweet and fragrant. Go well with honey.

Strikes me as a classic and high-quality Chinese green. Early steeps lean more toward mellow, savory, and nutty, with later steeps being more floral, vegetal, and only lightly astringent (for green tea). This seems more flavorful than long jing from a similar price point (which I tend to find too light). Dry leaves are fine, curly, and have a good amount of fluffy white trichomes. With the finished wet leaves, you can see they are intact with good size and color consistency.

Used the directed temperature and brewed for 6 minutes. This was delightful! From the moment I opened the packaging, the floral jasmine scent was bursting out. This has a more pleasant, balanced, and medium mouthfeel than the previous jasmine pearls I've tasted. Really enjoyable if you like floral tasting green tea

Fast delivery, took only 5 days!

Fast delivery. took only 5 days!

The Nonpareil Handmade Anxi Qing Xiang TieGuanYin Oolong Tea is a delicious example of TieGuan/Yin. It has a smooth balanced taste and the slight after taste leaves me wanting more. This tea is in the upper middle range of quality Tie Guan Yin in my opinion. I plan to order more.

This tea is light and easy drinking, gentle, and smooth. It is absolutely my favorite tea. While it frequently calls me to sit and drink it calmly and in a meditative way I also just as often drink it casually throughout the day. Thankfully for those who love it as much as me, like most white teas, it can be steeped MANY times when brewed gongfu style so a little can go a long way. In my experience up to 10 steeps is normal with this particular tea at least for what I'm happy to drink. It's also very forgiving and frankly almost hard to get wrong, even over-steeped or steeped too hot it is never particularly astringent. I first bought this three years ago and its on my gift list from family every year since and will continue to be (but I'm stocking up now to be safe because of Americas "trade war")

Ordered online and it only took 10 days to arrive in Ottawa, Canada. Very fast delivery. I tried a green tea and it was great. Will order again

Ordered online and it only took 10 days to arrive in Ottawa, Canada. Very fast delivery. I tried a green tea and it was great. Will order again

This is an excellent roasted oolong. Overall, the value and quality are pretty comparable to a couple of my other favorites: Lao Cong Mi Lan Xiang (Honey Orchid) and Wudong Xing Ren Xiang (Almond Aroma). I think I'll put it as a close third for now and worth including in the rotation, although I had better try them side-by-side to be sure. This is full-bodied, durable, soft, sweet, complex, and neither astringent nor bitter. I find that medium roasts like this suit my tastes. This one, for example, picks up some bright and mild woodiness, but no burnt, overly smoky, or carbon taste. The character of this one seems a bit more mellow and reserved than some other roast oolongs, so it's quite relaxing.

Brewed gong fu style according to the directions. Lovely sweet taste like freshly harvested peas, which gains a drier, almost minty note in the final steep. A bit astringent, but refreshing. Gives a feeling of gentle clarity and optimism.

Brewed gong fu style at ~180F, this tea had a sweet vegetal scent, very like fresh snap peas, a little bit on the starchy side. The flavor was smooth and vegetal-sweet for the first few infusions, gaining a more pronounced sweetness on later infusions, and a scent almost like orange pith, but with no bitter taste. The feeling after drinking it is a gentle uplift, very pleasant. Thoroughly enjoyed my sample of this tea!

Great tasting black tea, light and easy to drink, no astringency. I love it.

I've been drinking this tea more often lately. It really sits nice on a temperate spring day. It's very fresh and clean tasting with a cotton-like feeling, typical of Bai Mu Dan. This tea brings more to the table than that, I can very clearly notice a note of linden, something unique in this type of tea in my experience. It also has some sweetness, with a faint orange zest impression. It can get somewhat bitter and less pleasant to drink if left too long to steep, so grandpa style isn't the best way to enjoy this tea in my opinion; I stick to a gaiwan with this one.

This is probably the best ripe Pu Erh I've had in this price range. It's very smooth and clean tasting, with a touch of bitterness and notes of sandalwood and plums. It's also enduring and doesn't get gritty and unpleasant towards the end like some do.

I've drank a half of this cake so far and decided to write my thoughts about it. It's a nice and refreshing daily tea for sure, even in the early morning when I want bright notes to wake me up and my senses. I've had this tea several ways, gongfu in a gaiwan, gongfu in a Yixing, western teapot, grandpa style... So far the best experience was in a gaiwan, it's fun chasing the perfect temperature, leaf amount and steeping time in order to catch the creamy note that doesn't appear always, but is quite enjoyable when it does. There's a decent intensity of bright citrus notes with mineral aftertaste and fruity sweetness resting on the gums. It can get somewhat bitter if oversteeped, but it's expected and I tend to handle bitterness quite well. Making this tea in Yixing somehow transforms it into a green tea, the roasted and more robust one, I don't see it as an improvement over ceramic gaiwan. Western teapot method does a decent job, although I prefer having it semi-gongfu so that in a way I can enjoy how the tea changes in a few steeps. Lastly, grandpa style isn't for me with this one, it's just average when less leaf is used, and the tea gets too intense in every aspect after a few sips, like a cacophony of tastes and aromas if I use more leaves.

I really enjoy this. Super sweet and very malty. I got five brews. Temperature: Boil water then let air out for three mins. 1st brew - 10 seconds 2nd brew - 10 seconds 3rd brew - 20 seconds 4th brew - 40 seconds 5tb brew - 1min.