Ya Shi Xiang Dong Pian5CDY Harvest: 26.09.2022
Origin: China / Guangdong / Chaozhou / Fenghuang / Beixi
Height: 600 m.a.s.l
Tea plant varietal: Shui Xian Ya Shi Xiang
A Yashixiang Dongpian from 20-year-old tea bushes, grown on a medium altitude. Dongpian means winter slice and refers to the autumn harvest.Also in Fenghuang autumn/winter harvests are produced, but for climatic reasons only up to a certain altitude above sea level and much less frequently than in Anxi and Taiwan. These Fenghuang Dancong Dongpian can rarely be found on the market. In contrast to the round, deep, darker roasted spring harvests, the winter harvests of Fenghuang Dancong are light, little oxidised and only very lightly roasted. They are incredibly fresh and intense - a very different kind of green oolong than the well-known ones from Anxi and Taiwan.
Category:
Phoenix Single Bush (Feng Huang Dan Cong) Phoenix Single Bush, Feng Huang Dan Cong in Chinese, are being produced near the village Fenghuang on the slopes of Mount Wudong that culminates at 1200m above sea level, as well as in the neighbouring village Shiguping. The region is situated in the very east of Guangdong province. It was probably there that the method of producing Oolong was invented in the 16th century. Still today, the local teas are produced in a very traditional way, and up on Mount Wudong there are still many tea trees which are several hundred years old. In the present case, the term Single Bush does not refer to a literal single tea bush, but to a multitude of bushes that all stem from cuttings of one single so-called mother bush, which makes them all genetically identical. All of these tea plants are sub-varietal of the Shui Xian varietal. The individual teas differ from each other through the sub-varietal, the age of the tea plants, the exact location, respectively height above sea level, and of course, through the manufacturing and finishing, particularly the blending of different sub-varietals and the degree and quality of the roasting. Phoenix Single Bush teas always have a taste composed of two parts: on the one hand fruity and sweet, on the other hand bitter and tart while the roasting creates a balanced, round aroma.
Storage:
This tea was produced in a relatively green manner, but sufficienty oxidised and then roasted, it can thus be kept at room temperature and even be aged.
