Phoenix Dancong Oolong Honey Orchid • 凤凰单丛乌龙蜜兰香
Phoenix Dancong Oolong Honey Orchid • 凤凰单丛乌龙蜜兰香
A roasted Oolong from China’s Phoenix Mountains, prized for its complexity and exotic lychee notes. The Phoenix Mountain terroir is mineral-rich with misty landscapes, resulting in complex tea flavours which resemble whisky. A beautiful Oolong with floral and fruit aromas that kindled our love of tea.
Dancong Oolongs are known for very exotic peach, lychee, honey and orchid fragrance, which comes through with art of brewing. Steep it too long and it can easily become very bitter or tannic. The minerality of the terroir gives it that rich tannins but it takes some kind of magic to tease out the fruit aromas. If you're brewing it gongfu style, steep for short infusions of 10 to 30 seconds (around 5g of tea leaves to 120ml of water).
Type: Oolong Tea
Origin: Da An Village, Wudongshan, Guangdong, China
Cultivar: Mi Lan Xiang
Elevation: 800m
Tea Maker: Eric Chen
Age of tea tree: 90 years
Oxidation: 80%
Tasting Notes: Passionfruit, Lychee, Biscuit, Toasted Nuts
This tea is pure 100% loose leaf tea, without artificial flavourings and additives. Made by artisans.
Type: Oolong Tea
Origin: Da An Village, Wudongshan, Guangdong, China
Cultivar: Mi Lan Xiang
Elevation: 800m
Tea Maker: Eric Chen
Age of tea tree: 90 years
Oxidation: 80%
Tasting Notes: Passionfruit, Lychee, Biscuit, Toasted Nuts
BREWING INSTRUCTIONS
FROM GARDEN TO CUP
In the Guangdong province of Southern China, there is a region called Wudongshan where the Phoenix Mountains range lie. Close to the heavens, the microclimate up in the mountains is cool and dry, with rocky, sandy soil that’s ideal for growing tea.
Phoenix Mountain is known for making ‘Dancong’ Oolongs, a particular type of Oolong which are unblended and unadulterated. Dancong is the Chinese word for single grove, which means tea from this region is grown in single tea trees, not cultivated hedges like in other places.
Each Oolong tea cultivar from this region is grafted from a particular Mother tree or old grove. They each have a unique name, mostly named for the type of fragrance and taste profile it offers. There are over 100 cultivars existing today, and each one with varying aromatic profiles identified by the tea farmer. Like snowflakes in the wind, every one is different and special in its own way and it takes a good tea artisan to bring out the individual tea plant’s aromatic qualities.
Our Phoenix Oolong Honey Orchid comes from Mr. Chen’s organic tea farm in Da An village. He is the third-generation of tea makers from his family farm. He believes in preserving the tea trees in its most natural way without the use of harmful pesticides and continues to roast tea in the traditional method. Picked from 90-year-old tea trees, this tea is medium-roasted, and true to its namesake, a luscious sweetness and fragrance of flowers await in your cup.
