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Nine filters over 137 teas. Every result tells you why it matched, in words you can check against the tea's own page.
58 teas match
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Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
Plummy and gently medicinal, retaining more delicacy than aged ball-rolled oolong does.
Brewing: 2 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
Distinctly stewed and slightly sour, which is characteristic of the processing rather than a fault. Ageing rounds the sourness considerably.
Brewing: 2 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
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Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
Thick, creamy and floral with a cooling finish that carries on well past the swallow — the clearest example of what elevation does.
Brewing: 3 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
Sweetly floral with an apricot edge, and among the first Anxi teas of the season to reach market.
Brewing: 2 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
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Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
Heavier and more roast-led than the aromatic Dan Congs, which makes it the easier one to brew without bitterness.
Brewing: 2 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
Soft, corn-sweet and floral, with only a trace of the mineral depth the Wuyi name implies. The best single argument that yancha is a place rather than a flavour.
Brewing: 2 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
Stone-fruit sweet with a lighter roast than most yancha, which makes the underlying leaf easier to read. A useful bridge for someone who finds Da Hong Pao too dark.
Brewing: 2 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
Extremely floral and light-bodied, with the aroma doing nearly all the work. Useful as the low-oxidation anchor of the oolong range: put it beside Oriental Beauty and the breadth of the category becomes obvious in one sitting.
Brewing: 2 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
Very close to Tie Guan Yin in profile and a step down in thickness and length. Worth knowing about mainly because it is what a great deal of cheap Tie Guan Yin actually is.
Brewing: 2 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
Close to light Tie Guan Yin with a thinner leaf and a shorter finish. A legitimate tea whose problem is the label rather than the cup.
Brewing: 2 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
Nothing like modern Tie Guan Yin — thick, dark and medicinally sweet, with the floral character entirely gone.
Brewing: 2 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
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Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
Bright and sharply floral without Jin Xuan’s milkiness. Anyone who dislikes that creaminess usually likes this instead.
Brewing: 2 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
Roast first, then fruit underneath it, then minerality that lingers. A well-made example is smooth rather than smoky — harsh char usually means a roast used to cover thin leaf.
Brewing: 3 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
The most concentrated expression of the high-mountain style: thick, sweet, with almost no astringency and a markedly long cooling finish. Whether it is meaningfully better than good Li Shan is a matter genuine drinkers disagree about.
Brewing: 2 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
Buttery and gently toasty, with more weight than a high-mountain oolong and far less char than a Wuyi tea. A good demonstration of what a light roast adds without taking over.
Brewing: 2 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
Lighter and sweeter than the main winter harvest, with less body. Availability depends entirely on the weather.
Brewing: 2 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
Distinctly sour-sweet, with a stewed-fruit character that drinkers either enjoy immediately or find odd. The flavour is a genuine consequence of the anaerobic processing and is the reason to try it.
Brewing: 2 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
Apricot and osmanthus without a flower ever having touched the leaf — the aroma is entirely intrinsic.
Brewing: 2 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
Thick and almost milky in texture, with a floral sweetness and no grip at all. The cooling sensation in the throat afterwards — hou yun — is the quality marker practitioners look for.
Brewing: 3 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
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Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
Baked fruit and caramel over the familiar rolled-oolong base, with far more warmth than the modern light style.
Brewing: 2 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
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Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
Fruity and honeyed with a warm roasted depth, sitting closer to a light black tea than to modern Taiwanese oolong. A useful reminder that the green floral style is a recent fashion rather than the tradition.
Brewing: 2 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
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Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
Openly perfumed — some find it too much. A medium rather than light roast integrates the aroma and is usually the better version.
Brewing: 2 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
Lighter and more sharply floral than Tie Guan Yin, with less body and a quicker finish. Good on its own terms and noticeably thinner if bought expecting the other tea.
Brewing: 2 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
Extremely fragrant and extremely unforgiving. Brewed correctly it is one of the most aromatic teas in existence; brewed five seconds long it is close to undrinkable.
Brewing: 2 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
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Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
Recognisably creamy without being artificial, sitting a little softer and rounder than an equivalent high-mountain oolong. Grown at lower elevations it is a modest everyday tea; grown high it is very good indeed.
Brewing: 3 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
Thicker and more mineral than ordinary Shui Xian, with a mossy woodiness that only old bushes seem to give.
Brewing: 2 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
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Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
The thickest and sweetest of the Taiwanese high-mountain teas, with a fruit character the lower mountains do not reach. The cooling throat sensation practitioners call hou yun is at its most obvious here.
Brewing: 2 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
Recognisably Dan Cong and considerably more forgiving — a sensible place to learn the very short steeps the category demands.
Brewing: 2 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
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Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
Greener and brisker than the rest of the Anxi family, with a vegetal edge that sits closer to green tea than to oolong. Inexpensive and honest when sold under its own name.
Brewing: 2 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
Grassier and more astringent than Tie Guan Yin, and less forgiving of a long steep — the cultivar sets that ceiling, not the maker.
Brewing: 2 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
The sweetest Dan Cong and the most forgiving, which is why it is the one to start with. The bitterness is still there and still a few seconds away at any moment.
Brewing: 2 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
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Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
Openly honeyed and fruity. The aroma is a plant defence response rather than an additive, which surprises most people who meet it.
Brewing: 2 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
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Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
Dark, nutty and caramelised, with the orchid aroma of the green style replaced by roasted depth. Ages well, unlike jade Tie Guan Yin, which fades within a year.
Brewing: 2 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
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Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
Sweet, honeyed and fruity with essentially no bitterness — the least oolong-like oolong, and frequently the tea that convinces black-tea drinkers to explore the category.
Brewing: 3 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
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Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
The most aromatic oolong made, and the least forgiving. A few seconds too long produces real bitterness, and the same leaf brewed briskly is extraordinarily perfumed. That bitterness is not a flaw to be eliminated so much as a boundary to be brewed against.
Brewing: 3 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
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Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
Distinctly orchid-scented for a roasted rock tea, which is unusual — most yancha aroma is roast-derived rather than cultivar-derived.
Brewing: 2 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
Vividly floral and almost green in character, with the aroma at maximum and the body correspondingly light.
Brewing: 3 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
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Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
Higher-toned and more aromatic than the heavier Wuyi cultivars, with a light roast that leaves the floral character intact.
Brewing: 2 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
The spice note is genuinely distinctive rather than a tasting-note flourish: cassia appears in the aroma of the empty cup with unusual consistency. Underneath sits the mineral yancha character shared across the family.
Brewing: 3 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a oolong, which you chose.
Recognisably high-mountain but greener and fresher than Alishan, with a bamboo note attributed locally to the surrounding forest. Frequently the best value in the style.
Brewing: 2 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Journeys through these teas
- Moving beyond tea bags — Someone comfortable with loose black tea who has never tried the other categories.
- Discover Chinese tea — Someone who wants the breadth of the country tea came from.
- Discover oolong — Someone who has had one oolong and could not tell what made it an oolong.
- Understanding tea families — Someone who has heard there are six kinds of tea and wants to know what actually separates them.
Comparisons covering your results
- Oolong styles compared — Five oolongs across the two axes that define the category — how far oxidation ran, and how much roast followed. This is the clearest demonstration that oolong is a territory rather than a point.
- Light vs aged Tie Guan Yin — The same cultivar from the same gardens, made two ways a century apart. They taste so unlike each other that most drinkers would not guess they share a name.
- GABA oolong vs conventional oolong — GABA tea is made by processing leaf in a nitrogen atmosphere instead of air. This compares the processing and the flavour, and makes no claim about the compound the name refers to.
- Li Shan vs Alishan — Two Taiwanese high-mountain areas whose names are similar enough to confuse and whose elevations are not. The names are similar enough that substitution is routine, and the elevations are not similar at all.
- Light vs roasted Tie Guan Yin — One cultivar, one county, two teas that share nothing in the cup — and the light one is the newer of the two. A shopper asking for Tie Guan Yin will almost always be handed the newer of the two without being told.
What every filter is measured against
- Tea family261/261 teas
- Flavour profile261/261 teas
- Aroma261/261 teas
- Mouthfeel261/261 teas
- Intensity261/261 teas
- Complexity261/261 teas
- Appreciation level261/261 teas
- Brewing method261/261 teas
- Experience level261/261 teas
A filter is only offered when every published tea carries the field. A partially populated facet ranks by who happened to have a value, and the reader cannot see what was dropped.
What is deliberately not here
- Caffeine level — 11/261 teas have a measured estimate
Filtering on it would silently exclude most of the catalogue. Category is not a substitute: matcha and gyokuro carry more caffeine than many black teas.
- Umami — 43/261 teas have the axis authored
Genuinely meaningful for shaded Japanese greens and rarely assessed elsewhere, so it cannot join the intensity model without skewing it toward one origin.
- Health goals — sleep, energy, digestion — no field exists
Nothing in the model records what a tea is for, by design. These require the evidence-backed health layer and its human review, which is not signed.
This finder describes what a tea is. It has no field for what a tea is for, so it cannot answer questions about sleep, energy or digestion — and would rather say that than guess.