High Mountain "Lao Cong Huang Zhi Xiang" Dan Cong Oolong Tea

Name: High Mountain "Lao Cong Huang Zhi Xiang" Dan Cong Oolong Tea
Brand: Yunnan Sourcing Tea Shop
Price: 30.0 USD
Availability: InStock

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Our "Lao Cong Huang Zhi Xiang" grows wild at 1200 meters of altitude (High Mountain) above Lizaiping Village of the Wuling Mountain. This comes from a small stand of trees that grow naturally and are more than 100 years old.

Huang Zhi Xiang Dan Cong (黄枝香 ) Oolong is a unique varietal of Dan Cong grown in Phoenix Village (and Ling Tou village) in the Wu Dong mountain area of Guangdong.

Huang Zhi Xiang literally means "Yellow Gardenia Flower Aroma", because traditionally this tea when processed and lightly roasted will give off a strong gardenia aroma with an accompanying floral taste. Our traditional one family Huang Zhi Xiang Dan Cong is naturally grown, painstakingly processed by hand into mao cha and then roasted 3 times over the course of 3 weeks time to bring out the aroma and strong taste.

The tea has a strong pungent floral taste, honey sweetness and a balanced vegetal astringency and bitterness to counter the sweetness. The result is a mouth watering delight that permeates through the mouth and throat with long lasting flavor and lubricating mouth-feel. Strong cha qi. This is tea is very complex and probably not for someone seeking a sweet and easy oolong.

An incredibly unique tea, grown naturally and carefully processed to preserve its lovely character.

Spring Harvest from Lizaiping Village of the Wuling Mountain

Typically around 6 kilograms produced per harvest!

** 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 exchanges, refunds or credits for damaged tins.

Overall rating: 5.0 / 5 from 3 reviews.

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Exquisite Non Pareil Oolong

"Some of the more refined oolongs need to be brewed with attention and lower temps. 5g 120ml gaiwan, 180 degrees. 10 sec, 2- 20 sec and the 30 secs on all consecutive steepings. Lovely floral aroma I've never tasted. Similar to orchid aroma but not exactly. Typical mineral finish of a mountain. Since I've now been drinking tea for 7 years seriously. I wouldn't be able to taste this tea properly years ago. But since my pallet is wide and experienced enough I completely understand the complexity and refined taste of a expensive oolong like this. Really fantastic experience!"

— Aaron W. (5/5)

good stuff here

"I'm pleasantly surprised by this dancong. I enjoy seeing YS carry more high-end examples of dancong, and this is one of them for sure. If you're reading this review, and the calendar year is still 2024, do yourself a favor and don't drink it until spring-time 2025 ... but definitely buy a 30 gram tin and let it age, you can (and will) thank me later. This will be well worth the wait. The roast needs a few more months to dissipate, right now the charcoal firing has too tight of a grip on the leaves, and it creates a coarse, abrasive mouthfeel that cuts right through the depth of flavors this tea most certainly has. This quality is not a knock against this dancong by any means, in fact it's a reflection of skilled firing and good processing techniques, because patience is required not only in the making of the tea, but also in the enjoying of the tea. My initial impressions are that this dancong is good and priced competitively in the larger landscape of what $1-per-gram-ish will buy you in the world of premium dancong. The congwei is apparent immediately and persists throughout the full session, it has a nice spicy quality to it that is reminiscent of vetiver, tropical hardwood, and hints of musk. The flavor profile, in general, is also stubborn and resists being washed out. The fully-brewed leaves retain a wonderfully complex citrus fragrance, and certainly the soup in the cup carries those same attributes. Don't buy the BS of this thing being "gardenia flower" fragrance - it's not. "Huang Zhi" is a mistranslation of "fragrance of kumquat flower" because the local dialect got butchered and all of the sudden became either "yellow stalk" (wtf?) or "[yellow] gardenia flower" neither one of which are accurate representations of the authentic name. Huang Zhi Xiang is a very old gene pool, one of the handful that traces back to the Song dynasty (along with zhilanxiang and fanshuxiang as an off-shoot of shuixian), and so there's roughly a thousand years of passed time for humans to come in and screw it all up with modern interpretations. If this tea tastes more like citrus fruits and flowers than it does like gardenia or orchids, there's a very good reason for that - because that's what it's supposed to taste like. That's what it was named after. And this one certainly carries the qualities of such a noble and old lineage quite well. The citrus qualities are complex and vibrant. I'm happy I bought a 30-gram tin. LZP village is one of the hot-spots for dancong production. Lots of mother trees here, and lots of amazing old-bush dancong being produced. This is one of them."

— NN (5/5)