Middle Mountain "Saturn Peach Aroma" Dan Cong Oolong Tea

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Oolong Tea
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180 °F / 82 °C 0 min, 30 sec 4 oz / 118 ml

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Our Middle Mountain Saturn Peach Aroma 蟠桃香 Dan Cong Oolong is grown in Shi Tou Jiao Di Village at an altitude of 980 Meters. It comes from trees and bushes growing naturally aged 20-80 years of age. No pesticides or artificial fertilizers were used.

This is a medium+ level of roast, that was laboriously roasted, rested, and re-roasted many times to achieve a high level of aroma and body. Further aging will benefit this tea as the roast tasteRead more

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Oolongs mean I’m having a day off at home where I can really observe how the tea changes across 10+ steeps. I lost count.

I also haven’t kept proper track of temperatures, steeping times, leaf to water ratios and the like. It hasn’t been a measuring kinda mood for me, and I love that.

But I do note a vague recollection of enjoying this tea more when brewed at 85C for a few steeps, then gradually increasing to 90C, 95C and 100C later on.

Shall try it at 100C with flash steeps at some point, because I’ve read that’s the way to brew Dan Cong. And it’s my first Dan Cong, so I’m open to all suggestions.

I loved this so much after only maybe four sessions, that I’ve dedicated a clay teapot to Dan Congs already.

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(Spring 2023 harvest) When brewed right, the aroma leaves me speechless. Perfection.

Desert island tea.

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Oolong is delicious; Dan Cong is oolong; Dan Cong is delicious. I feel as though I know just enough about the stuff to understand why folks get stoked about it, but not enough to have had my brain and soul shaken into conversion.

There’s a certain satisfaction to drowning it hot and fast, ripping it out of the pot before it can put up its tiny astringency fists and punch me in the face. But also I kinda crave the long-lazy, the deep pull of wisdom and nuance and patience.

Ah. Maybe I’m craving some yin to my current yang… maybe pot-ripping will perfectly align with some tidy, quiet, dough-proofing future day, to bring its own kind of nuance and wisdom to me then. We shall see.

ashmanra 2 years ago

I love this…<3

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