Oolong tea (Wu Long) | Chinese | Taiwanese

JING Oolong teas capture the most complete tea drinking experience - the freshness of green teas and the richness of black teas in perfect balance.

The terms 'Wu Long' and 'Oolong' refer to the same type of tea - they are just different ways of writing the same Chinese word in English.

Oolong tea has received huge media coverage due to claims that it aids weight-loss. While tea may help metabolise fats, experts all agree that weight loss is a complex issue and there are no quick-fix solutions.

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Yellow Gold Oolong Tea

Yellow Gold Oolong | Huang Jin Gui Wu Long

Hand-rolled leaf, in clusters of variegated colour from light olive to ivy-green. The leaves open fully to create a yellow-gold infusion with lime-green hues.

The aroma and flavour combines deeply satisfying caramel notes with tangy citrus and fresh grasses, supported by quenching, syrupy sweetness.

From £4.00 for 50g

Traditional Iron Buddha Tieguanyin

Organic Traditional Iron Buddha Oolong (Monkey Picked*) | Tieguanyin Wu Long

Medium fired and oxidised in the traditional way to give a beautiffuly satisfying, flavour of roasted hazel and autumn fruits. It is also wonderful when paired with fried mushrooms. Now organic.

*Not picked by monkeys!

From £10.00 for 50g

Alishan Oolong Tea from Taiwan

Ali Shan Oolong Tea | Taiwan Ali Shan Wu Long

This is one of Taiwan's most celebrated Oolong teas. With its fresh, clean and creamy texture, it is extremely refreshing yet rich.

From £7.50 for 50g

Jing Jade Oolong Tea

Taiwan Jade Oolong Tea | Taiwan Cui Yu Wu Long

An Oolong from Nantou in Taiwan. Refreshing, floral, and complex. Excellent with food.

From £5.00 for 50g

Phoenix Honey Orchid Oolong Tea

Phoenix Honey Orchid Oolong Tea | Feng Huang Dang Cong Wu Long

A seductive shade of orange blossom, this gorgeous oolong from the Phoenix Mountain in China’s Guangdong Province is one of the most complex in taste: orange, vanilla and honey.

From £12.00 for 50g

Big Red Robe Oolong Supreme | Wuyi Da Hong Pao Wu Long

Intense, pure, deep and mineral, with great sappy persistence and depth. Gently peachy fruit behind, with a perfumed, honeysuckle finish. Complex and masterful.

From £15.00 for 50g

Jing Oolong Tea Explorer

Oolong Tea Explorer

Oolong teas are hand made and their complex flavour reflects this. The Jing Oolong Tea Explorer includes some of the finest oolongs available in China and Taiwan today and will provide you with a taste of just how varied this famous tea variety is.

From £11.70 for Jing Oolong Tea Explorer Teas

Oriental Beauty Oolong Tea

Oriental Beauty Supreme Oolong Tea | Dong Fang Mei Ren Wu Long

Soft, glycerous, harmonious and rounded, with burnished, apple-wood flavours. Calm, serene and complete.

From £7.50 for 50g

Cassia Oolong Tea | Wuyi Rou Gui Wu Long

Full, firm and satisfying, with ample richness and lifted by unexpected grapefruit-citrus aromas.

From £11.00 for 50g

WUYI 100 YEAR TEA TREE WATER SPRITE

Water Sprite Oolong Tea | Wuyi Shui Xian Wu Long

Graceful and perfectly proportioned, with intricate notes of fragrant wood, gentle mineral oil, rose petal and peach leaf. Hazel-cream opening textures give way to a brisk, lively finish with some liquorice-root spice.

From £8.00 for 50g

WUYI IRON ARHAT

Iron Arhat Oolong Tea | Wuyi Tie Luo Han Wu Long

Thick, glycerous, tongue-coating flavours of understated richness. The flavour repertoire includes burnt almond, minerals, apricot leaf and sandalwood. The aftertaste is firmly structured, yet camouflaged by the tea’s enveloping textural richness. Finishing perfumes hint at the tea’s fresh, sappy, tea-garden origins.

From £10.00 for 50g

Sparrows Tongue Oolong Tea | Wuyi Que Shi Wu Long

Pure, complex and refined, with soft, creamy backnotes and close-textured flavours whose summer-fruit enchantment tapers away to something more gingery, deeper and grippier. Long aftertaste hinting at incense wood.

From £20.00 for 50g

Iron Buddha Oolong Tea | Tie Guan Yin Wu Long

An intensely floral oolong tea, hand rolled and fired to create a characteristic Iron Buddha or ‘Iron Goddess of Mercy’ oolong flavour.

From £10.00 for 50g

Lishan Oolong Tea from Taiwan

Lishan Oolong Tea | Taiwan Lishan Wu Long

From one of the premier regions in Taiwan, this tea is extremely floral, refreshing and palate cleansing, with a creamy and thick texture. The ultimate experience of a lightly oxidised and fired Taiwan oolong tea.

From £12.50 for 25g

Wuyi Shan in Fujian Province, China

Wuyi is where oolong tea was first produced and home to the famous Wuyi Rock Teas (Wuyi Yan Cha), which include Big Red Robe, Water Sprite, White Cockscombe, Golden Water Turtle, Cassia and Iron Arhat.

Oolong tea (Wu Long) contains approximately 35-45mg of caffeine per cup.

Its contains high levels of antioxidants, which help protect the body from the action of free-radicals. As it contains slightly higher levels of caffeine than green or white teas, it stimulates the metabolism, increasing brain function and promoting alertness.

We have written a number of articles on Oolong tea in the tea knowledge section of the website:

Wu Long Tea and Oolong Tea - its just the same Chinese word written two different ways

Big Red Robe - Journey to the original Big Red Robe Trees

We recommend the following teawares for making Oolong (Wu Long) tea

JING Gold Tea Tin

Store your tea in style with a JING Gold Tea Caddy.

£1.99 for Jing Gold Tea Caddy