Spectrum 2025 Organic Dancong Oolong – Dark
Price range: $6.00 through $26.00
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Description
This Dancong oolong set offers a unique opportunity to compare the effect of various roast levels applied to the same tea, highlighting different qualities at each level.
The base material for these teas comes from a high-altitude garden (800-1000m) in the Pheonix Mountain range, and comes with organic certifications by EU, US, Chinese and Japanese certifying bodies. Made from 70+ year old trees with deep roots, these teas have the benefit of coming from unique terroir that is rich in volcanic soil and grown in a biodiverse environment, as opposed to a mono-culture plantation.
While each tea maintains ties to its Milanxiang roots, as well as a mineral character due to the terroir, the effect of each roasting level is pronounced.
This listing is for the dark roast version of this tea:
With a slightly larger grade picking of 1 bud, 3-4 leaves, this tea is markedly different than the others. Having undergone multiple roastings, the flavour is more developed, fusing the honey notes with a stronger mineral quality. There is a more noticeable Yanyun quality with this tea, which along with the heavier roast makes it more akin to a Yancha tea. With less emphasis on the subtleties in the front, this tea offers pleasant notes on the back end, lingering on the sides of the tongue.
$0.37-0.43/gram
Varietal: Milanxiang/蜜兰香/Honey Orchid Fragrance
Region: Shuangjiniang Shan, Guangdong
Altitude: 800-1000m
We recommend brewing this tea using Chaozhou style gongfu brewing. Here’s how it’s done:
For something different, you can also try cold brewing:
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1 review for Spectrum 2025 Organic Dancong Oolong – Dark
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Alexandra Verville-Paris –
Definitely the most comforting aroma among the Dancongs in the Spectrum set. It has clear rock oolong similarities. More flavorful and complex, my personal favorite of the three.
// Smell: Cooked cherries, tropical fruit cake, floral candy, roasted biscotti, roasted nuts, burnt cake, wet rock, dried tall grass, humid basement
// Texture: Tingling on the teeth, very physical (up to my earlobes), medium texture
// Taste: Burnt tropical fruit and nut cake, floral hand cream, nougat bar with cranberry and nuts, homemade hot chocolate
// Body sensation: Hot throat, vanished saliva, calm energy, motivation