Wuyi dahongpao Rock tea Middle fire Grade One

Tea type
Oolong Tea
Ingredients
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Flavors
Burnt Sugar, Campfire, Caramel, Honey, Peach, Salt, Walnut, Ash, Astringent, Bitter, Cream, Grapes, Lime, Sour
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Average preparation
Boiling 1 min, 45 sec 7 g 16 oz / 479 ml

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  • “Very nice. Burnt sugar and caramel flavors predominantly, with hints of peach, walnut, and maybe a touch of saltiness. This tea is pretty mellow, but the slight touch of campfire/smoke lends it a...” Read full tasting note
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  • “The first thing I can smell from the dry leaves is somewhat ‘sour’ aroma of matcha and lime leaves. After the rinse it is still a little green, but much less so. The dominant smells are those of...” Read full tasting note
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Chinese Wuyi dahongpao Rock tea Middle fire Grade One

Middle fire da hong pao tea (cooked type) :the tea has medium flavor and aroma, tastes more mellow, tea glycerol tastes more durable,it is suitable for people who like to drink Pu’er taste, the elderly would be easier to accept.

Wuyi Rock tea:the tea is a traditional Chinese tea, is a kind of oolong tea with a rock rhyme (rock bone flowers) quality features. Produced in the Wuyi mountain in North Fujian “beautiful south-east” , the tea trees were growing in crack among. Wuyi Rock tea has a fragrance of green tea, the sweet taste of black tea , is Chinese oolong tea in Need. Wuyi Rock tea is semi-fermented green tea, its production method is between green tea and black tea. The most famous tea is the Wuyi Da Hong Pao tea.

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Very nice. Burnt sugar and caramel flavors predominantly, with hints of peach, walnut, and maybe a touch of saltiness. This tea is pretty mellow, but the slight touch of campfire/smoke lends it a bit of excitement. I did not find much astringency after a 3 minute steep, and no bitterness. In fact, if I had some more, I would give it a shot at 4 or 5 minutes. The campfire is mostly in the aroma, and it doesn’t really translate strongly into the cup. It is not anything like a smoky lapsang souchong.

Tea was received as a free sample from AprTea Mall, in exchange for my writing a review. It was nice to find 8 different tea samples, about 50 grams total, in my mail yesterday. This is the first one I have sampled, and my first ever Dahongpao-style tea.

https://www.aprtea.com/chinese-wuyi-dahongpao-rock-tea-middle-fire-grade-one-250g/

Flavors: Burnt Sugar, Campfire, Caramel, Honey, Peach, Salt, Walnut

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 0 sec 7 g 29 OZ / 857 ML

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The first thing I can smell from the dry leaves is somewhat ‘sour’ aroma of matcha and lime leaves. After the rinse it is still a little green, but much less so. The dominant smells are those of nuts (walnuts in particular) and burnt sugar with some cream and grape vine in the background. In the empty cup I mostly smell caramel.

The mouthfeel is not great unfortunately. I tried to do both smaller (~4g per 100ml) and bigger (~7.5g per 100ml) leaf to water ratios to test it out and in both cases it was fairly thin. I would characterize it as bubbly and astringent, obviously the infusions with a lot of leaf were much more pronounced on both accounts. After swallowing, I get a strong cooling sensation in the throat as well

Taste-wise I like it, but I wouldn’t say it’s spectacular in any regard. It has a caramel sweetness, ash/fire bitterness, and finishes on a slightly sour note. The astringency takes the center stage most of the time though. The aftertaste is neither strong nor long. It starts off a bit sour and bitter and then turns into and a mix of sweet notes with dry grass.

I found the tea to last really long overall. The 7.5g sample yielded about 1.5 litres in the end, and that’s with me trying to push several infusions beyond what I would normally do, in order to see how the tea reacts. The price is not too high, so if you don’t mind an astringent tea, it might be a good choice.

Flavors: Ash, Astringent, Bitter, Burnt Sugar, Campfire, Caramel, Cream, Grapes, Lime, Sour

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 0 min, 30 sec 7 g 3 OZ / 100 ML

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