Middle Mountain "Pomelo Flower Aroma" Dan Cong Oolong Tea

Name: Middle Mountain "Pomelo Flower Aroma" Dan Cong Oolong Tea
Brand: Yunnan Sourcing Tea Shop
Price: 5.5 USD
Availability: InStock

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$5.50 - $320.00

$5.50

$5.50 - $320.00

$5.50

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"You Hua Xiang" Dan Cong (Pomelo Flower Aroma) is a unique varietal of Dan Cong. It's a naturally occuring hybrid of Feng Huang area Shui Xian that has been selected over a period of two centuries. Pomelo Flower Aroma Dan Cong grows at around 850 meters of altitude in the north of Feng Huang in a village called Da'An. The plants grow naturally, many reaching a height of 3 or even 4 meters!

The taste of "Pomelo Flower Aroma" tea is incredibly complex and powerful, while still remaining well within the realm of refinement and elegance! The tea is slightly more oxidized than most of the Dan Congs we offered this year, the higher oxidation brings our the fruity and floral aspects of this tea just perfectly. It brews up a heavy bodied golden (with slight orange) hued tea soup that overpowers the senses with an intoxicating creamy nectar-like texture. It easily goes 10+ infusions when brewed gong fu style. Tea soup is gold-orange, the brewed leaves still mostly green with some wilted brown (as is typical of traditional Dan Cong processing).

April Harvest

Da'An, Feng Huang Town, Raoping County of Guangdong Province.

Overall rating: 4.9411764 / 5 from 17 reviews.

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Exactly how I remember it

"I was many years ago the first time I had this tea and I was utterly smitten back then. The rose like aroma and rich citrusy taste with only the mildest astringency with a very distant white pepper finish that you'd miss if you'd blinked and the brew like a citrine jewel. That tea was nigh impossible to obtain in the US for years afterwards and finding a trustworthy, quality source just as daunting. But today, here I am, grateful to Yunnan Sourcing for the opportunity to buy a reasonably priced kilogram of impeccable quality. I shall treasure this tea for as long as I can."

— CKB (5/5)

Spicy floral bouquet

"Great quality dancong. As soon as I added the leaves to a heated gaiwan, I could smell the lilac and magnolia aroma. After a quick rinse, this transformed into citrus flower, orchid and fresh rubber smell with hints of rye bread. The taste was sweet, slightly bitter, dark cherry, nutmeg and mace. The texture was light, almost brothy. The empty cups smelled like mangosteens. The aftertaste was floral, mineral and slightly bitter that lasted for a long time. Overall, from 5g of leaf in a 100ml gaiwan, I could brew 7 times."

— Aron F. (5/5)

Simply incredible

"I think this is my new favorite dan cong oolong tea from YS. It has such a complex floral fragrance and taste that is extremely resilient to brewing. Early steeps are beautifully floral and fruity, while your middle steeps see some spice notes emerging, before a more “standard” oolong liberally sweetness becomes evident later. You should really use a huiweibei (some of the first steep after the wash reserved for drinking as the last serving) for this one, because it ends up tasting like fruit candy."

— Jaime (5/5)

very very pleasant tea, the

"very very pleasant tea, the pomelo taste is really present. I really like this one"

— ROYER Y. (5/5)

waka waka

"I’ve tried around 6 different Dancongs from three different sellers and the middle mountain pomelo flower is my favorite so far. notes of buttery croissants, wildflower honey, tangerine zest, rose hips, freshly baked donuts, and tinned peaches."

— Arthur P. (5/5)

Great taste, smell and taste

"Great taste, smell and taste"

— sulaiman n. (5/5)

One of the best

"One of the best"

— Fanny B. (5/5)

Liudmila

"It's really fruity! 5*"

— Lyudmila S. (5/5)

A good dancong. Far superior

"A good dancong. Far superior to the YS Milan Xiang, inferior to the Jianghua. Good, but not powerful aroma, balanced taste, little bitterness. Not as finicky to brew as some DCs."

— Evan J. (4/5)