Mi Lan Xiang Feng Xi

Tea type
Oolong Tea
Ingredients
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Flavors
Char, Cream, Drying, Floral, Grain, Grass, Guava, Honey, Hops, Lychee, Mineral, Orchid, Plant Stems, Roasted, Tannin, Violet, Wood
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Average preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 3 min, 15 sec 5 g 7 oz / 211 ml

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From Camellia Sinensis

Dan Cong roasted black wulongs are renown for their intoxicating aromatic complexity and this one is no exception. Mi Lan Xiang means “honey orchid fragrance” and once infused, the soft smelling, large, and dark leaves reveal surprising aromatics. Exotic (lychee), fleshy (apricot, ripe peach), and citrus (zests) fruit notes make a strong first impression. Afterwards, the mild woodsy and malted (beer on lees) notes are supported on the palate by a full liquor, with a sweet autumn honey finish.

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8 Tasting Notes

85
326 tasting notes

Absolutely wonderful oolong. I can’t wait to try more dan cong teas. :)

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94
80 tasting notes

To me this smells like passion fruit and tastes like honey. Very well done.

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149 tasting notes

Nice floral aroma with a complex tea. Spinach and walnut aroma as it brews, and I taste spring onions, with a honey passionfruit sweetness.

Not as complex as I would like, but this is a good tea, and a good example of some oolongs.

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 3 min, 15 sec

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1440 tasting notes

2021 sipdown no. 63

This one has that mineral flavour that I find oolongs get, but there’s also a lovely maltiness cut through with hints of floral here that adds a nice depth.

The second steep has just slightly dulled flavours, but it allows the maltiness to almost come neck in neck with the mineral, which was nice.

1st steep 4 minutes
2nd steep 5.5 minutes

I’m happy to have tried this one, but that mineral flavour just isn’t my favourite.

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 4 min, 0 sec 3 g 14 OZ / 414 ML

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413 tasting notes

I bought this tea fresh in 2018 along with a 2010 version to compare it to. But as often happens with ambitious tea experiments, this one fell by the wayside. However, I thought I’d better do it while I can still use Steepster, so I unearthed these teas and am ready to drink a lot of caffeine.

I steeped 6 g of leaf in a 120 ml teapot at 195F for 7, 10, 12, 15, 18, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50, 60, 90, 120, and 240 seconds.

The dry aroma is of honey, roast, orchid, and faint fruit. The first steep has notes of honey, roast, hops, grain, and orchid. It’s drying in the mouth, with a beautiful honey scent at the bottom of the cup. The second steep has stronger honey and roast notes, with faint lychee, wood, and what I would call green plant stems. The third and fourth steeps have honey, roast, hops, grain, and char in the foreground, with a lingering aftertaste of guava, lychee, roast, orchids, and honey.

To try and coax the complex flavours in the aftertaste into the actual tea, I lowered the temperature to 190F for the next couple steeps. This seems to have been a mistake, since though the roast is less pronounced, there’s more greenness and the honey/fruit is still not coming through. In the seventh steep, the honey and roast let some orchid, violet, grass, cream, and other florals make a faint appearance. The end of the session features roast, wood, tannins, and minerals.

Perhaps due to its age, this tea never really fulfilled the fruity and floral promise of its aroma and aftertaste. It’s quite heavily roasted, and the roast dominated the tasting experience for me. Other reviewers, who presumably had the tea when it was fresher, didn’t have the same impression, so maybe this is a consequence of two years in storage.

Flavors: Char, Cream, Drying, Floral, Grain, Grass, Guava, Honey, Hops, Lychee, Mineral, Orchid, Plant Stems, Roasted, Tannin, Violet, Wood

Preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 6 g 4 OZ / 120 ML

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1 tasting notes

Nice orchid aroma, a light yet complex flavor came out by the 3rd run of 5minutes ( 1st run 15 seconds, 2nd run of 1minute) .Like a refreshing white wine on a summer day, this tea would be perfect for daily drinking from spring thru autumn.

Preparation
Boiling 1 min, 30 sec 2 tsp 3 OZ / 100 ML

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90
4 tasting notes

Medium roasted with unbelievable lychee and honey aroma, very aromatic.

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 1 min, 0 sec

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