Dry leaf smell blew my socks off! Already it had a super sweet smell with hints of nuts. The sweet smell comprises of peach, honey, lychee, flowers and honeydew melon! The wet leaf hits you with a dominant lychee aroma with hints of stonefruit pit, licorice and cinnamon. The texture is clear, mineral and quenching. The tea has astringency but almost unnoticeable and after the astringent episode (neglectable) it leaves you with a lingering sweetness in the back of the throat. The taste is still sweet like honey and it still has the stonefruit pit aroma but this time with a unripe banana and surprisingly peanut notes. Furthermore it has notes of mango, passion fruit, mangosteen and lychee. In conclusion, this is a tea that is known as a classic ‘household’ tea (especially for the Teochew/Chaoshan people) but never have I ever tasted a household tea that offers such an experience. The producer had almost maxxed out this tea and I couldn’t imagine having a better tea for the same price even though this tea was quite pricy. Frankly, I’ve never experienced such a good milanxiang dancong before.
Flavors: Almond, Astringent, Banana, Cinnamon, Clear, Floral, Honey, Honeydew, Licorice Root, Lychee, Mango, Melon, Mineral, Passion Fruit, Peach, Peanut, Roast Nuts, Stonefruit, Sweet
