James Norwood Pratt’s Tea Dictionary: Jin Xuan Oolong

Posted on September 29th, 2010. Written by Tony Gebely.

Jin Xuan Oolong: Properly called “milk oolong,” this is a tea cultivar developed in the 1990s. It yields a lighter Jade oolong-type tea, mildly astringent and very aromatic with a milky character of its own. Jin Xuan is popularly marketed as “milk oolong” because of its remarkable cream like flavour and aroma.

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