New favorite Oolong. Hands-down. Nonpareil Taiwan DaYuLing High Mountain (and I AM high)Cha Wang Oolong Tea.

I shouldn't begin my post with the words, 'Uh-Oh.' But there it is. Uh-Oh. What am I drinking? I taste something that I bet is expensive. Then I stop being a ninny and focus on what the heck is going on in my mouth after three steeps. This is super delicious tea. The rinse was delicious, and steeps one and two are wonderful, all three were different with just flash steeps. I used the whole seven gram sample and went ahead and used my 'large' gaiwan with 180 ml capacity with water at 195. Worried that might be too hot, but not a bit of astringency showed up. This is crazy good, people. Floral, soft grains, silky, light but full of flavor. Just amazing and the little rolled buds are just barely opening. I am off to look up where I got this and read it's description. As you know it is more fun for me to not read a thing before trying samples aside from what's on the little foil package. So all I know is the name and that it's from Teavivre. I'd bet my hat it is an expensive tea. It simply tastes expensive, which is silly for this newbie to say as I have had pricey teas and thought they tasted like shoe-leather and mice droppings. I know nothing!

More to come...