- Pack of six 20-count boxes of calorie-free tea (120 total tea bags)
- Oolong tea with a smooth taste and distinctive flavor
- Gluten free, with no calories and no carbohydrates; Kosher Parve
- An excellent source of healthy antioxidants
- Blended and packaged in the U.S.A.
Product Description
Tea with a smooth taste and distinctive flavor. Individual fresh pack. Take your favorite tea wherever you go! Bigelow’s individual flavor-protecting envelopes ensure great taste and freshness. Indulge in the soothing ritual of tea. Sipped throughout the day, tea quenches, soothes, satisfies, and delivers healthful antioxidants. From the wonderful aroma that fills the air the moment it starts steeping, you’ll know that Bigelow tea is like no other. To create each of our distinctive teas, we blend tender, hand-picked tea leaves from high-elevation gardens where the best teas are grown, then individually wrap our tea bags in flavor-protecting pouches to seal in its goodness. Remember, adding a cup of Bigelow tea throughout your busy day can contribute to your overall well being. So sit back, relax and make tea time your time to refresh mind, body and spirit! Blended and packaged in the USA…. More >>
Bigelow Chinese Oolong Tea, 20-Count Boxes
If you are a tea snob, you know that Oolong isn’t just another kind of tea–it’s meant to be steeped multiple times, with fifteen and twenty second timings to bring out the layers of taste.
A tea sommelier would also tell you that what’s in tea bags is the ‘fannings’ or the dust from tea production, so you’re not getting great tea from tea bags. (And frankly, you don’t drink champagne every day, either, so why be bothered by having less-than-perfect-tea?)
Um, well…having had reasonably good loose Oolong in the recent past, I can tell you that this doesn’t compare. Good oolong, like the stuff Twinings sells in their Origins line, is a little like drinking grass in the initial steepings and then like drinking liquid teak, but it’s not so bitter that it needs sweetener.
This, on the other hand, is just bitter as a main taste. I’m wondering if it’s because Amazon’s stock is old; more oxidation might make this more bitter than it should be.
Kudos to Bigelow for even trying to bring cheap Oolong to the masses–but if you really want to know what oolong is supposed to taste like, look elsewhere.
Rating: 3 / 5
I was very happy to find this tea, as it reminds me of wonderful Saturdays spent when I was a young girl. Prior to World War II the main amusements available were movies and my best friend and I had a standing date to see the latest matinee at a nearby theatre. But first, we went to a lovely little Chinese restaurant across the street and had a delicious plate lunch, complete with ice cream for dessert. The tea was served in small egg-shaped cups by an older Chinese waiter who looked like he had just stepped out of a tapestry, and it was delicious! Our mothers had provided each of us just enough money for our repast, plus 10 cents each for a tip, and we had our admission, 20 cents, 10 cents for treats and a nickel for the phone call home when we were finished. We were too shy to ask about the tea, but my mother found out it was “Oo Long”, which had the same flavor blance as this Bigelow Tea. The memories are priceless but this tea is reasonable and worthy of tasting!
Rating: 5 / 5
I have been looking for a good Oolong tea for a long time. The stores don’t carry any. I ran across this one on Amazon and thought why not give it a try. Thank goodness I tried, because it is what I have been looking for, a real Oolong tea! Great taste! Like you get in a great chinese restaurant. It also comes in a nice well made package. You don’t have to worry about a cheap bag busting in your cup. Give it a try!
Rating: 5 / 5
Oolong is my favorite tea but every store does not carry it. Bigelow is the brand most seen when they do. I have found it at Amazon for a very good price and now I can have it delivered for less than going to the store. I can now have my tea everyday without having to worry if the grocery store has it in stock. Also, has the same benefits as green tea with a richer flavor.
Rating: 5 / 5
We are both big tea drinkers. This is is of the better teas we have tried. Very flavorful not bitter at all. I did not think it reminded me of the chinese tea of my childhood. My wife did. My wife pointed it that we use high quality reverse osmosis water, while the chinese restaurants use sink water. On that basis alone, it wouldn’t taste the same.
Verdict by both of us. An excellent mild, but well flavored tea, with no bitter aftertaste.
This and Bigelow’s unflavored morning blends are now my favorite teas.
Rating: 5 / 5