Erik EllestadIron Arhat (Tue Luo Han) is always one of my favorite rock teas. This is a very nice (2022) example from Rivers and Lakes Tea.
Joël 🍵🎤 Live from Yoshi En talk "Rock Tea Oolong - Yan Cha"
The room is full and people are ready to hear more about this kind of tea and drink some of it.
Only 1/5 of people heard about it before, the presentation starts now!
"It tastes like licking a stone" is how many people reflect on the minerality of it.
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White Rooster Crest is usually processed as a low oxidation, low roast rock tea. Almost more like a green tea than an Oolong. Subtly flavored, it is a rock tea varietal I struggle to appreciate.
Moving my traditional winter rock tea fiesta up a bit this year, from starting after Thanksgiving to starting after Halloween. Golden Water Turtle (Shui Jin Gui) rock tea from Rivers and Lakes.
Vincent told me this year's MyTeaPal Club rock teas, (April, 2025,) are nicer than the batch from last year, (February, 2024,) but this Dong Pian Rou Gui from last year IS actually very good. Medium-Heavy Oxidation and roast, a bit uncommon in modern rock tea producers.
2023 Dong Pian Da Hong Pao (Big Red Robe) from MyTeaPal Club. Working through some samples backlog, a very nice rock tea blend.
Last oolong from the 2023 Tong Xin She Teahouse rock tea tasting flight is an appropriately traditionally produced one. Though quite an unusual name, "Short Foot Oolong"! (Ai Jiao Wu Long.)
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Tong Xin She Teahouse's Auspicious Fragrance or Bai Rui Xiang (or White Winter Daphne) is a low oxidation low-medium roast rock tea. High fragrance, appropriate to the name and sweet scent of the tea.
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In general, White Rooster Crest is just not my favorite kind of Rock Tea. In processing style it is almost more like a white or green tea than other rock teas, very low oxidation. This Rivers and Lakes version also has a very low roast. I can appreciate the choices, and it isn't bad tea, but it isn't my jam.
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