Oolong

Golden Moon Imperial Formosa Oolong

By Lainie Petersen

Imperial Formosa Oolong by Golden Moon boasts a beautiful dry leaf of various colors: Red, light brown, dark brown, and a bit of silvery tip. The nose is gorgeous too, at once sweet, nutty and spicy.

Stash Wuyi Coconut Mango

By Lainie Petersen

My tolerance for flavored oolongs is limited, even more so for bagged oolongs, but I admire the creativity of some tea companies. Stash took some Wuyi oolong dust and fannings, flavored it with coconut, mango orange peel and pineapple to create a tasty, inexpensive tropical tea. If you like fruit-flavored teas with a bit of substance, Wuyi Coconut Mango ought to do the trick.

White Peach Wuyi Oolong Tea

By Lainie Petersen

There is something about hot peaches that puts me into orbit. I actually am not a fruit eater, but I can’t resist a properly cooked peach. In fact, one of the best meals I ever had was a salad plate composed of artisan cheeses, fresh greens, and grilled doughnut peaches.

Tea Review - Tie Kuan Yin Iron Goddess Oolong Tea

By A.C. Cargill

Looking for an Oolong that you can enjoy daily, that will stand up to multiple steepings and still be wonderful? Give this one a try.

As Oolongs go, this one ranks midway

Stretching Your Tea Dollars

By A.C. Cargill
Proper tea steeping is generally regarded as a must for enjoying teas at their best. It’s also the way to make sure that the money you spend on these teas is stretched to their utmost value.
There is a trend these days for tea vendors to put directions for steeping their teas to get [...]

Oolong Tea

By William I. Lengeman III
By most accounts there are six main categories of tea. All of these come from the same plant - Camellia sinensis – and do not have anything to do with those beverages often known as herbal teas or tisanes. Categories of real tea include black, green, white, yellow, puerh and oolong. [...]

Golden Moon’s Imperial Formosa

By A.C. Cargill
The Subject: Imperial Formosa Oolong Tea from Golden Moon Teas.
Rating:

Water temperature: 212° F
Steeping time: 5 minutes
Tea type: Oolong (semi-fermented)
Scents, flavorings, etc.: No added scents or flavorings
Aroma, dry: Fresh, mild, slightly smoky, earthy
Aroma in the cup, plain: Fresh, mild, slightly smoky, earthy
Taste, plain: Fresh, mild, slightly smoky, earthy
Aroma in the cup, enhanced: N/A
Taste, enhanced: [...]

Imperial Formosa Oolong — Royal tea

By A.C. Cargill
If you want to feel like royalty, just drink the “royal” tea — Imperial Formosa Oolong from Golden Moon Tea. There was a popular series of commercials when I was a kid for a particular brand of margarine. One bite and a crown would appear on your head. I feel like that when [...]

Tea & Caffeine

It’s the long , cold days of winter where I live, and tea is something I drink for taste, but also for warmth & alertness. But in my former days of more-coffee-drinking-than-tea-drinking, I was hooked on the caffeine levels in coffee vs. tea.

Oolong Tea And Weight Loss

By William I. Lengeman III
When considering some of the rather lofty health claims made for certain products – yes, tea is among them - it’s a good idea to proceed with a degree of caution. There’s no shortage of apparently valid studies that indicate that tea does have some health benefits. On the other hand [...]

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