High-grade Da Hong Pao Wuyi Yan Cha Rock Tea Chinese Oolong Tea 20g

This Oolong is very fresh and has a pleasant earthy tone to it.I believe that the packaging may have something to do with how fresh the tea is. Inside of the nice little tin is a compressed foil brick. Inside of this brick of tea, I found that the contents are almost half again in volume when placed into a different container (as the tea will not all fit back into the tin). Right away after opening the foil, I noted the pleasantly pungent and earthy aroma of this tea.The leaves are large and appear to be individually loosely rolled. In steeping they only expand minutely. In my very first steep of this tea I may have underestimated the size and flavor of the tea and placed too much in the pot. Seeing how large the leaves appeared, I had originally used a full heaping tablespoon (about 2.5 grams of tea) and steeped for just 3 minutes at 185 degrees (F). Wow that's a lot of earthy. Almost too much - borderline dank.On the second and third steep of this first pot, the earthiness backed down a little bit, and became more of a defining characteristic rather than an overpowering flavor of this tea.In my second pot, did not make the same underestimation of the leaves, and I backed down to a smaller spoonful of about 2g of tea. Steeped for the same 3 minutes, I was welcomed with the same earthiness - but not hit in the face with pungency. Second steep, even more mellow in its earthiness - Yeah, this is what I was looking for.If you are looking for an Oolong with good earthy qualities, this is it. Just be prepared to wait for it.This is some legit Chinese tea, exported from China from a Chinese tea purveyor. Shipping took almost a fortnight (12 days exactly).So plan ahead. If you are short on your tea staples and are in danger of running out, you may need to find a stop-gap and either go to a local tea shop, or find a tea that qualifies as a prime purchase. But if you have tea in store, and don't mind the wait for something good and a little different, you will be rewarded by this tea.