Oolong tea: how to prepare it?
Oolong tea is a Chinese tea that can be prepared in two ways: The traditional method used for most teas, where you boil water and then pour it into a cup, adding the blue tea in a tea filter.
For Oolong tea preparation, we recommend an infusion time between 5 and 7 minutes in water at 95°C. The Gong Fu Cha method, which is part of Chinese art, is traditionally used in Taiwan for preparing Pu-erh tea, green tea, and Oolong. Note that this method makes your blue-green tea preparation stronger, so it's advised to consume it in small quantities.
Oolong tea preparation step by step
- Prepare your teapot and cups
- Rinse your teapot with hot water then pour the water into a reserve pot
- Place the Oolong tea in the teapot then rinse the leaves with water to hydrate them
- Empty the water used to rinse the Oolong tea leaves into the reserve pot then pour its contents into the tasting cup
- Now empty the cup
- Refill your teapot with water and let it infuse for 30 seconds to 1 minute. Pour the entire infusion into your reserve pot.
- You can now pour the infusion into the tasting cup.
- You can infuse the same tea up to 2 times.
Oolong multiple infusions
Organic oolong tea has unique properties due to a fermentation process totally different from other teas. For this reason, it is the only tea in the world that can undergo multiple infusions, provided you choose a quality oolong.
How to brew Oolong tea?
Oolong tea is brewed like all other teas, with a few minor details. It can be infused for a longer duration and even multiple times. You need to measure the quantity of leaves carefully; to succeed in your preparation, you'll need to count 2 grams of tea for 15cl of water. To obtain the best possible Oolong, you'll also need to respect the oolong infusion temperature of the water and the oolong infusion time. Don't worry about this, all our wulong teas have the indication on the package. To perfectly succeed in preparing your oolong infusion, you just need to follow the instructions provided on each of our packages.
Milky oolong tea preparation
The term milky oolong does not describe an oolong tea preparation with milk but a particular type of oolong tea. It comes from a Taiwanese tea variety, Jin Xuan. Taiwan Jin Xuan oolong tea is recognizable among all for its creamy and smooth texture, which has earned it the name "milk oolong".