Petes phoenix mountain oolong

Enjoy the Fragrance: A beautiful aroma will come from the tea leaves and the warm empty pitcher. Time to Brew: Fill the brewing compartment with hot water. When it has all dripped into the pitcher, the tea is ready to enjoy! Wake Up the Leaves: pour hot water over the tea leaves and wait seconds, then discard the rinse water. Enjoy the Fragrance: this is the perfect time to enjoy the aroma released by the awakened tea leaves.

Time to Brew 1st Brew: seconds 2nd-3rd Brew: 30 seconds 4th-5th Brew: 40 seconds Glass or Porcelain Gaiwan : Gaiwan Capacity: 6oz ml Tea Leaf: about 7 grams Wake Up the Leaves: pour hot water over the tea leaves and wait seconds, then discard the rinse water. Smacha — January 24, Thank you, and we are happy that you enjoy the tea!

Rated 5 out of 5. Add a review Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. We usually see raised eyebrows from those trying this tea for the first time, shocked by the captivating natural fruitiness of this style.

Quick shop. View cart. The Oolong Collection is a specially curated tasting set designed to showcase the diversity of the oolong category. In order to develop an identical flavour of Phoenix Dan Cong oolong, manufacturers use a lower temperature to bake it for more than 20 hours. As a result, the tea will undergo further maturation where non-enzymatic reactions occur between the substances that exist in the tea leaves and form its unique flavours. In commercial tea market, many people are used to the Phoenix oolong with strong baked flavour.

In fact, usually those are from garden tea at low altitude and harvested in summer. With such condition, tea tastes bitter and astringent. Eventually, strong fire has to be applied in order to partially diminish its unpleasant taste. The firing at more than degree C decomposed the tanning and reduce the dryness. For thoese low-end tea, the mao-cha is often baked using the electrical oven-dryer in order to maintain the efficiency.

No doubt that this Phoenix oolong gives strong baked flavour like Deep Fired oolong, and lacks intense fruity and flowery flavour; it is incomparable with the real Phoenix Dan Cong oolong. The well made phoenix oolongs that are baked with traditional charcoal fire gives no baked flavour even if it is baked up to 3 times. The tea is emitting a matured fruity flavour like dried peach, plum, cranberries or raisins.

The mechanism that allows the Phoenix Dan Cong oolong to develop its unique fruity flavour is very similar to the aging of pu-erh tea.

As for the pu-erh tea, it takes many years to develop the fruity flavour. Do you know that the tea gets matured faster if it is kept under a warmer environment? Since I am running operations both in Japan and Malaysia, the difference made is very obvious. The tea kept in Malaysia gets matured twice as fast as that in Japan.

By the way, the maturation by the aging is not only the specialty of pu-erh tea, but also with the Taiwan oolong tea, white tea and Darjeeling tea. I often keep my favorite Taiwan oolong tea under an ambient temperature.

After keeping these teas in Malaysia for a few years, the tea could develop very strong and sweet fruity flavour with a reminiscent of peach or apricot. In the making of Phoenix Dan Cong oolong tea, they also use the same theory. Since they cannot wait for a few years until the tea gets matured, they use baking to shorten the speed of maturation.

What if the tea is kept at 40 degree C or 50 degree C condition? Of course, it would take a shorter time to get the tea to mature when the temperature is higher. Applying this theory, they bake the tea at the temperature that is high enough to speed up the maturation process that is with 20 hours of baking at a temperature not more than a degree C, resulting in a tea that would develop a very strong fruity flavour.

This is the art of directing the maturation of tea. Due to the unique composition and rich content of minerals exist in the Shui Xian tea family, Phoenix Dan Cong oolong is not compatible with many kinds of teapots. I found that there are many clays did not perform well with Phoenix Dan Cong tea too, even if they showed great performance for other types of tea.

It is important to carefully select a suitable clay tea pot for brewing Phoenix Dan Cong tea. While some people strongly believe that Chao-zhou teapot performs very well with Phoenix Dan Cong tea since they are produced from the same hometown, I, however, find that this is not a correct perception. Likewise, some could perform well and some do not perform at all, it actually depends on the particular clay. Unless you are very certain whether your tea wares are suitable for brewing a Phoenix Dan Cong tea, kindly use either a glass or ceramic tea ware.

Since all our selection of Phoenix Dan Cong oolongs are from tea trees that are more than years old, you would be sure to enjoy strong after taste and flavour even if the tea is brewed in a glass ware. If you would like to determine whether your clay tea wares perform well with a Phoenix Dan Cong tea, you can brew the tea in a glass ware, and then by pouring some into the clay tea ware, you are able to compare and differentiate the taste of each clay tea ware.

After tasting of the tea from several clay tea wares, the one that produces a better taste than of the glass, you may consider using that specific clay tea ware to brew your Phoenix Dan Cong tea.

Follow Twitter, 2. Click "Like" on Facebook, and 3. Subscribe in newsletter. You can have the latest tea news from HOJO. Media Release. The overwhelming fruity flavor of Phoenix Dan Cong Oolong If you try the authentic phoenix dan cong oolong, I am ascertain that you will be shocked by the overwhelming extent of fruitiness.

The astounding characters of Phoenix Dan Cong tea produced from the old tea tree. Trimming is not conducted at all. Hence, the branches grow towards different directions causing the appearance of the tea bush to look just like some other native plants found in the mountain. Wu Dong mountain has plenty of rocks everywhere. Tea bushes grow in between the rocks. Diversity of flavour on Phoenix Dan Cong oolong When Phoenix Mountain was developed a several hundred years ago, legend acclaimed that there was only one or two kinds of tea cultivar that existed.

Important element for the quality of Phoenix Dan Cong oolong. Summer tea gives bitter taste I often come across customers who comment about Phoenix Dan Cong oolong being very bitter or astringent in taste, hence, they need to store it for a few more years.

Wu Dong Mountain is the best for quality tea The premium grade Phoenix Dan Cong oolong is grown at an altitude above m. They feel nourishing to drink. Damien Kinney store manager — October 5, Awesome feedback.

Sounds like we need more of the winter harvest. Both very fine teas that reward the patient tea drinker. Thank you and happy brewing Jo S! Peter Micic, Melbourne verified owner — August 10, Another great tea! And this lightly roasted oolong does not disappoint. Bottled spring water will bring out better results. A tea of this delicate nature requires a light touch with the water. Damien Kinney store manager — August 10, Thanks for the five-star review Peter.