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High Mountain "Zhi Lan Xiang" Dan Cong Oolong Tea | Yunnan Sourcing Tea Shop

High Mountain "Zhi Lan Xiang" Dan Cong Oolong Tea

by Yunnan Sourcing Tea Shop
$46.00 - $46.00
$46.00
$46.00 - $46.00
$46.00

芝兰香 literally means "Zhi Lan Orchid Aroma".  Zhi Lan orchids are thick and sweet with an especially pungent aroma.  This is a high mountain pluck from older trees (Lao Cong) growing at an altitude of 1200 meters.

The aroma when brewed at first reminds us of cured cannabis flowers and orchids.  The taste is thick and pungent, with sweetness and little or no astringency.  The tea has body and seems to expand in the mouth.  The after-taste is noticeable and long with a soothing lubricating effect on the mouth and throat.

Roast level:  Light to Medium

Just 3.5 kilograms in total produced!

Late-April Harvest

Li Zi Ping Village, Feng Huang Town, Raoping County of Guangdong Province.

** Color and design of tin may differ somewhat from what is shown in the pictures.

***Tin may be damaged during transport. If you want a perfect tin, please do not order this product. No exhanges, refunds or credits for damaged tins. 

Overall rating: 5.0 / 5 from 2 reviews.

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Great tea but rather overpriced

"Tasting notes: very flowery (orchid), yet subtle 5g/100ml, 99C, 15s->5s->5s"

— Nikolay F. (5/5)

complex beyond description

"At $1.30/gram you should probably know what you’re getting yourself (and your bank account) into. Dan cong of this caliber is hard to describe. It’s a personal and subjective experience. Sure, there’s objective qualities to it, but what you read and think isn’t going to do any justice to what you taste and feel. This one is pretty finicky, it takes a long time to work through a session properly and requires a high level of skill to brew. 7 to 8 grams of leaf always returns 12 to 14 steeps in a 140mL Chaozhou teapot for me. I get a nice balance of sweet, floral, butterscotch, salted caramel, and dark red fruity notes. I don’t get any cannabis though. It has a pungent minerality to it which can get pretty snappy if it’s over-steeped, so make sure you pay attention to steep times. The mouthfeel is incredible, it’s powerful all the way through the session. Even halfway through, when the flavor profile thins out and I find myself changing the pace, the mouthfeel continues to build. The last few steeps temper that snappy minerality, it melts away and becomes very soft around the edges, leaving behind a honey-floral sweetness that creeps up from the back of the throat and dominates the aftertaste. I get a very nice and long-lasting aftertaste, perhaps the best of any dan cong I’ve had so far. After a good session it lasts for about 8 hours. That probably isn’t going to be true for most people though, it’s likely just my personal and subjective experience. About an hour after my most recent session, I ate a spicy habanero bacon burger with sharp cheddar fondue melted over the patty. About 30 minutes later, this Zhi Lan Xiang cut right through the grease like a V8 powered lawnmower cuts through a single blade of grass. I brushed my teeth more than 7 hours after the end of my session, and within 15 minutes I felt the aftertaste working its way back up, eventually obliterating the minty flavor of the toothpaste. It was like I had literally just finished drinking this tea. This aftertaste will follow me into the afterlife – and that is the essence of my insatiable obsession with dan cong."

— NN (5/5)

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