# Slimming Oolong Tea > Loose-leaf Chinese oolong — wu-long, the semi-oxidized tea between green and black. Smooth, slightly toasty, traditionally between-meal sipper. - **URL:** https://sampsonecoshop.com/products/slimming-tea - **Type:** tea - **Brand:** THE METROPOLITAN TEA COMPANY LTD. - **Price:** 9.99 CAD - **Availability:** check store - **Tags:** greentea, oolong, replenishable, tea ## Description 🌿 Oolong🍃 Semi-Oxidized☕ Lower Caffeine🌿 Loose Leaf The middle-tea cup — Chinese oolong (wu-long), the semi-oxidized leaf between green and black, smooth and slightly toasty. Oolong — wu-long, “black dragon” in Chinese — sits in the middle of the tea spectrum: more oxidized than green tea, less than black. The leaf is partially withered, partially bruised, partially fired and partially oxidized in a careful sequence that the Chinese tea tradition has refined over centuries. The result is a smooth, slightly toasty cup with the floral character of green tea on top of a fuller body that approaches black tea without the weight. In Chinese kitchens oolong is the cup that lives next to the table — sipped between courses across long dinners, kept hot in a small pot rather than brewed cup-by-cup, often re-steeped four or five times across an evening. Lower in caffeine than a black tea, smoother than a green, the kind of tea that doesn’t pick a side. 🍃 Semi-Oxidized Leaf Between green and black — smooth, toasty body ☕ Lower Caffeine Lighter than black, drinks across the day ✨ Re-Steeps 4–5 Times The Chinese-kitchen between-meal cup ✨ **The Sampson Promise** We only put ingredients in our products that we would use on our own family. Every ingredient has a purpose. If it doesn’t need to be there, it isn’t. Type Oolong (semi-oxidized) Caffeine Low–Medium Best Time Anytime, with food Format Loose Leaf Steep Time 3 min Servings ~25 cups (50g) ## Tasting Notes 🍃 Toasty Floral Top Aroma The aroma reads slightly toasty up top — the firing note that defines oolong — with a faint orchid-like floral underneath. Cleaner than a black tea, fuller than a green. 🌿 Smooth Round Body Body The body sits in the middle space oolong owns — smooth, slightly buttery, with a clean toasty edge. No astringency, no bitterness, the cup that drinks easily through a long meal. ✨ Long Clean Finish Aftertaste Closes clean, lightly sweet, with the long lingering aftertaste — what Chinese tea drinkers call “hui gan” — that good oolong is meant to leave behind. The cup keeps tasting after the sip ends. ## How to Brew 01 Measure One heaped teaspoon (about 2–3g) per 8oz cup. Oolong leaf is rolled and dense — the ball-shaped leaves unfurl as they steep. 02 Heat to ~85°C Boil and let stand 30 seconds. Oolong likes it slightly hotter than green but not full-boil — 85°C lets the leaf unfurl without pulling bitterness out. 03 Steep 3 Minutes Three minutes for the first pour. Re-steep four or five times across a meal — each pour stays distinct, and the leaf gives a different cup each time. Water ~85°C Time 3 min Per Cup 1 heaped tsp Drink it the Chinese way — small cups, not mugs, and re-steep. The first pour is the brightest; the second is the smoothest; the fourth is the gentlest. The cup changes through the meal. ## About the Tea 🍃 Chinese Oolong The Whole Cup Semi-oxidized tea leaves from China — the “wu-long” style sits between green and black on the oxidation spectrum, partially withered and partially fired in the centuries-old Chinese tradition. The leaf is rolled into small balls that unfurl during steeping. 🌿 Single Ingredient The Process Just the leaf — no blend, no flavour. The character of the cup comes from the processing rather than additions: a careful sequence of withering, bruising, partial oxidation and firing that gives oolong its distinctive smooth-toasty profile. ✨ Multiple Re-Steeps The Tradition The Chinese way of drinking oolong is to re-steep the same leaves four or five times across a meal, each pour shorter than the last. The leaf gives a different cup each time — the bag stretches further than green or black. In the tin Chinese oolong tea. Origin & Sourcing Single-ingredient Chinese oolong — semi-oxidized leaf in the wu-long tradition, the in-between tea that sits across the table from green and black. Smooth, slightly toasty, designed to re-steep across a meal, blended in small batches for the Sampson shelf. ## Images - https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0571/5319/2067/files/slimming-oolong-tea-3533933.jpg?v=1780653367 - https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0571/5319/2067/files/slimming-oolong-tea-9324010.jpg?v=1780653368