Tealyra - Milk Jin Xuan Oolong - High Mountain Taiwanese Loose Leaf Tea - Great Milky Cream Taste and Aroma - Organically Grown - Weight Loss Tea - 100g (3.5-ounce)

Tasty tasty tasty tea, with a smooth, milky taste and smell. You can get many infusions from a couple tablespoons. I bought it to make kombucha because of its low fluoride content, but it’s so delicious that I’ve now renewed my tea drinking habit.

This tea is confusing to the senses. It’s a light color green tea in appear with the aroma an taste of condensed milk with notes of toasted caramel. The condense milk aroma and taste is very light and was enhanced when I added a small amount of almond milk and a bit of sweetener. It’s warm and comforting like a piece of bread pudding. I was able to steep the leaves twice to yield very delicious cups of tea. Though the price was a bit high. This tea is delicious.

I usually buy the osmanthus oolong and it's one of my favorites, but decided to give this one a shot since sometimes I make boba and chai with my tea. Overall, the tea comes with very nice creamy aroma when you open the bag, it's fresh and nice. You can smell the settle milk aroma from the tea pot too, and the oolong flavor is good as usual. However, this was not my favorite as it does not give enough creamy taste while also changed the tea taste a little, and I guess oolong is not the best match with this very faded mild milk flavor. Beyond that, the tea quality and texture are good as usual.

I’ll start by saying that I am in no way an expert in tea. But after years of espresso/coffee making, I do have very decent “palette” (so to say) for tasting and aptitude brewing substances to their best potential. And I have tested 11 milk oolongs just this week. Summary: 1. Far too strong of “condensed sweetness milk” (some call it coconut) smell from tea leaves (unnaturally so in contrast to other “infused with milk or flavor” milk oolong I’ve tried - btw no such smells on real milk oolong). 2. The taste on even 1st brew does not have enough of the smell transferred to the taste buds. Too subtle in contrast to less “smelly” kinds. Either needs to taste more or smell less. 3. Usually milk oolong gets most flavor on 2nd-3rd brew - this one while a decent tea for all brews, looses most of this infused “milk” taste after the 1st steep. So it becomes just a nice light oolong — that’s not a bad thing .. just not a good one if “milk oolong” is what you want. 3. Since it does not re-steep that well, I would suggest adding dried coconut along with tea for steeping. Tastes as it smells if you do this. 4. Not thrilled about the description portraying the method of infusing with milk as “traditional” (can’t double check if that was the exact word used, but close). Makes it sound like that’s how real milk oolong is made, when it’s not. If you don’t know any better, you may believe it’s a genuine proper milk oolong. All in all, it’s quite alright as a tea, if you don’t know real milk oolong or like haven’t like me checked every single listing twice and read every review and then purchased and sampled 11 different milk oolongs (both real and flavored kinds). Should you pick flavored or real? DEPENDS. If you don’t plan to steep it more than 1-2 times, just get flavored. This one will be just fine (but there are far better). If you will steep it at least 2-3 times every time (and 4-5 some times) then pick a real milk oolong and let the flavour develop. If you want to try real milk oolong, you should probably start with those. It’ll be hard if you get used to the added flavour to really enjoy ones you actually have to “taste” to appreciate. If you read this - wow, good job! It’s far too long. But I hope this review helps.

I only wish I had tried Tealyra's Milk Jin Xuan Oolong tea many years ago. It has a light ghee taste without the fat you'd normally get from actual ghee—something I no longer can consume after switching to a vegan oil-free diet. I find it very soothing. This will definitely be a regular go-to for me. I'm moving away from coffee, and this will make the transition a lot easier.