About Premium Phoenix Dan Cong Ao Fu Hou

This premium grade Phoenix Dan Cong comes from the Wu Dong Village, Chao Zhou City, Guang Dong Province. Wu Dong Village is the core area that produces the highest quality of Phoenix Dan Cong oolong tea. The teas that originated here have a unique high mountain charm and are quite rebrew-able.
The yearly yield of this rare Dan Cong is very limited because the picking time is super shot in a year which is just around 3-5 days. This tea belongs to the yellow gardenia type of oolong. This tea is much sweeter than any other yellow gardenia type of ordinary Phoenix Dan Cong teas.

Appearance & Taste

Its tea leaves are long and slim, while they become large and stalky after brewing. The tea soup is bright yellow.

Its taste is full of sweetness, with an obvious yellow gardenia aroma. It also has a very unique milky taste combined with a fruity fragrance. The tea soup is thick and smooth. Its aftertaste is long-lasting. As it comes from high sea level tea trees, it has an obvious charming taste of high mountain old bush trees.

Taste: Fruity, Gardenia, Honey

Brewing Guide

Tea Cup

4 teaspoon(s)

100°C (125ml)

1-2 mins

Enjoy!

Glass

8 tsp

100°C (250ml)

1-2 mins

Enjoy!

Teapot

16 tsp

100°C (500ml)

1-2 mins

Enjoy!

Kongfu Style

Warm the Gaiwan/tiny teapot with hot water; discard the water afterward
Add 1g Oolong tea for every 20ml – 30ml of water (recommend 8g tea leaves for a cup, adjust by personal taste)
Pour hot water (100 °C) into the clay teapot / Gaiwan, tilt it, slowly rotate it for two circles, and quickly discard the water (this step is for waking up tea leaves and stimulating the special aroma of the oolong tea)
Refill clay teapot/Gaiwan with hot water
Infuse the tea for around 2-3s for the first brew, less than 5s for between the second and the tenth brews. After that, allow an extra 5-8s infusion time.
Pour the steeped tea into a serving cup and divided into small teacups and serve
Rebrew-able around 20 times

Origin

This premium grade Phoenix Dan Cong comes from the Wu Dong Village, Chao Zhou City, Guang Dong Province. The trees there are lush, surrounded by multiple streams through the valley. The mountain is also surrounded by clouds and mists all year round. The weather there is humid, and the temperature difference between day and night is large. The rainfall is abundant while the sunshine hours are short. The soil there is thick and fertile and contains rich organic substances and trace elements. These substances and elements are conducive to the formation of tea polyphenols and aromatic substances. All these, including the natural environment advantages mentioned above, provide superior growing conditions for the tea trees of the tea.

Origin: Guangdong

Cultivar and Picking

The name ‘Dan Cong’ means the single shrub of tea cultivars. It is selected from the high-quality Phoenix Shuixuan Species Group, cultivated and picked individually. There are many sub-cultivars under the group of Phoenix Shuixian cultivars, and each has its own characteristic in terms of the leaf and shape of the tea tree.

Based on the different quality of the raw materials generated from Phoenix Shuixuan Species Group and the different levels or sophistication of production processes, the quality of its sub-cultivars can be sorted, from high to low, as Phoenix Dan Cong, Phoenix Lang Cai, and Phoenix Shuixian. In simple words, Phoenix Dan Cong is the upgraded version of Phoenix Shuixian.

Phoenix Dan Cong has dozens of strains and types. According to the introduction of Chaozhou Phoenix tea tree resources, Phoenix tea has 79 kinds of different natural flower flavours, 12 kinds of natural fruit aroma,s and 16 kinds of other fragrances.

Phoenix Dan Cong is picked before or after the Pure Brightness (April 4th, 5th, or 6th). The yearly yield of this rare Dan Cong is very limited because the picking time is super shot – only around 3-5 days in a year.