This is an exciting new collection we are proud to offer this year: pure-origin, core-region Wudong Mountain Dancong Oolong. Last year was our first year sourcing true Wudong Dancong and it is a delight to be able to drink and offer these mineral sweet old-tree teas. Wudong (meaning Dark Soil) is a mountain in the Phoenix range outside of Chaozhou with distinctive volcanic soil and a lot of rocky boulders dotting the landscape. This mountain is home of the first dancong oolong bushes, and its cliffs have seen almost a thousand years of tea-making traditions.
The young maker Wen Zitong has a gift for tea processing, and all of these teas are carefully crafted by his skillful hands. We visit each spring with him on his mountain home in the Wudong village and always sample a lot of Wudong dancong, as a result, we can whole-heartedly say that the teas Wen Zitong makes are truly a cut above the rest; thus, we have decided to source from him for this year's Wudong Dancongs (and are excited to continue supporting his work by buying his teas in the many years to come).
The set includes a total of 36 grams of tea, meaining 6 grams for each of these 6 different Dancong Oolong cultivars, all properly charcoal roasted and individually packed in heat-sealed satchels.
In the set:
- 6g Jasmine Fragrance (Gardenia, Citra Hops)
- 6g Eight Immortals (Cedar, Vanilla)
- 6g Tulip Fragrance (Sweet Cream, Sourdough Toast)
- 6g Bamboo Leaf Fragrance (Wild Orchid, Honeysuckle)
- 6g Orchid Fragrance (Stone Fruit, Buttered Toast)
- 6g Thunderstruck (Green Apple, Cinnamon)
For those that want to touch the sky when it comes to Dancong, check out Wen Zitong's Mother Bush Experience, which includes tea from his oldest single-harvest mother bush cultivars of the Eight Immortals and the Bamboo Leaf Fragrance.
For those wanting to try a wider breadth of some less common Dancong Oolong cultivars, we recommend trying the Phoenix Dancong Sampler, as it contains a total of 6 different Dancongs from villages near Wudong.
We are very excited to share this tea tasting opportunity, as it is one of the few ways to really understand the complexity with in a microcosm of tea like Dancong.
