Drink the Leaf is located in Napa, California.  Yes, that’s a tea company located in the famous wine-producing region.  I was very fortunate to try a few of their teas (marTEA blogs: Drink the Leaf).  The teas were fresh, flavorful, and packaged well.  For those of us that drink a lot of tea, packaging and storage is a key component to our satisfaction.

Over the past two weeks, I’ve been enjoying drinktheleaf.com’s Jade Oolong.  This tea had a very balanced flavor and scent.  The Oolong has a fresh-green flavor with a light sweetness and floral (lilac) hint. The scent of the dry tea literally takes me on a journey to the Fujian province of China.  It may sound over-the-top, but the scent of a good Oolong is magical.  I try to use an aroma cup when drinking Oolong to savor the scent that lingers from the tea.  The dry tea has a vibrant blue-green color (Jade Green). This particular Oolong unfurls to reveal a healthy dark-green tea leaf. To prepare the Oolong, I allowed boiling water to cool slightly and gave the leaves a 10 second wash before steeping the tea for about 3 minutes.  I typically steeped the leaves twice per sitting.  Any more than two steepings and the flavor and scent really started to be lost.

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