Phoenix Dan Cong

Honey Orchid

Phoenix Dan Cong Honey Orchid (Mi Lan Xiang)

Type: Oolong Tea
Origin: Guandong Province, China
Harvest: Spring, 2010
Tea leaves: 3 slightly open leaves
Taste: Contradictory body and aftertaste. Fruity, sweet-honeyed base, Pleasant and bitter edged after taste. Some says it has a sweet lychee flavor

Price: ￡4.60 – 50grams

Dan Cong Honey Orchid Oolong Tea is considered a tea of extraordinary distinction and is grown on the Phoenix Mountain's of Guangdong Province, China, where it is considered one of favourites amongst the locals.  It's elegantly long, twisted and almost feathery spear shaped leaves often being brewed 'Gong Fu style' in small, Chao Zhou earthenware tea pots.

The name Honey Orchid comes from the representation a flower because of the incredibly fragrant smell it has - notes of peach and citrus over a gently honeyed base floral - Dan Cong Honey Orchid simply means Honey Orchid fragrant.

Dan Cong Honey Orchid is described as having a contradictory body and aftertaste.  This tea is fruity, sweet-honeyed base, light-bodied and incisive, with a surprisingly pleasant bitter edged aftertaste. Some says it has a sweet lychee flavor. Suitable for multiple infusions.

How to brew

• Use freshly drawn cold water

• Boil water 100℃

• Use 3g tea leaves in a 350ml cup

• Steep for 1 to 2 minutes (or to your taste)

• Infusions: at least 3 times – don't remove the leaves from the mug, as once the water level is low, simply add more water and keep going until the flavour of the tea is gone

• Brewing vessel: Glass cup, gaiwan, glass or porcelain pot