This is the 2nd tea from the April TOMC. The dry aroma is a light incense, the warm aroma is of red grapefruit & sandalwood. It’s very addictive. I sat breathing it in, & I love it.
The first time I tasted Mi Lan Xiang Phoenix Mountain Dancong, it kind of freaked me out. I’d never had a tea with the vaporous after-aroma incense-like sensation in my sinuses. I also didn’t really care much for the feeling like I was drinking incense mixed with grapefruit juice. It just wasn’t right.
Amazingly, each time I drink it, I enjoy it more! It’s a very complex tea, best suited to a gongfu session. The early cups are gently sweet grapefruit, with a bit of the bitter rind, a pinch of clove, & the after glow of sandalwood, & with each steep it builds, like eating a sweet grapefruit in a Buddhist temple, the air heavy with incense & flowers.
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This is why I should not be writing tasting notes. Mine said something like “this tea makes me think of hot dog”. Maybe I should quit.
nxtdoor – not allowed! also…are you going to the tea festival this weekend (terri will let me hijack her note hahaha)
Nxtdoor, I love your review, LOL. We need reviews like that!
AND little terri said,
“I WANT TO GO TO THE TEA FESTIVAL WITH YOU GUYS!!! WAAAAAAA!”
Terri…i wish you could come too. Cavo has a sick little one so it’s just me, Raritea and Kittenna…though i’ll probably beat those two there since they’re SLOW POKES!
What? A tea festival? What rock have I been under? Yeah, I wanna go. I have a think on a Saturday from 4 pm onward. Can we go Sunday?
Thanks Terri! She’s much happier now (well, she’s sleeping now! ha), which makes me hope she’s through the worst.
Too bad about the tea festival. Part of me wants to just text Sil at the last moment and show up anyways but… aaaaghh.
The good thing is I’ll PROBABLY be in TO next year too. (And the year after? And…)
Beautiful description – this sounds like a truly wonderful delight.
This is why I should not be writing tasting notes. Mine said something like “this tea makes me think of hot dog”. Maybe I should quit.
Lol, mine are worse! Yours are awesome – please don’t quit!
hahaha,Nxtdoor…mine aren’t anything to brag about that’s for sure…
nxtdoor – not allowed! also…are you going to the tea festival this weekend (terri will let me hijack her note hahaha)
LOL – I want to read about this hot dog tea.
Nxtdoor, I love your review, LOL. We need reviews like that!
AND little terri said,
“I WANT TO GO TO THE TEA FESTIVAL WITH YOU GUYS!!! WAAAAAAA!”
Terri…i wish you could come too. Cavo has a sick little one so it’s just me, Raritea and Kittenna…though i’ll probably beat those two there since they’re SLOW POKES!
awww, so sorry your kid is sick Cavo :(
What? A tea festival? What rock have I been under? Yeah, I wanna go. I have a think on a Saturday from 4 pm onward. Can we go Sunday?
Who has a TEA festival in the middle of Winter snow storms?! The abominable snow-teaman?!
Thanks Terri! She’s much happier now (well, she’s sleeping now! ha), which makes me hope she’s through the worst.
Too bad about the tea festival. Part of me wants to just text Sil at the last moment and show up anyways but… aaaaghh.
The good thing is I’ll PROBABLY be in TO next year too. (And the year after? And…)
Bonnie – I was wondering that too.
Hey Sil, is this thing indoors?