I had a dancong from my tea friend Phyll today. It is very interesting because it is much, much lighter than the usual dancong I get from the Best Tea House. Mind you, Best Tea’s stuff tend to be higher fired, and the dancongs are no exception. Phyll’s, on the other hand, are green — they look sort of like how white tea would look if the leaves are big, and they taste a little like that too. The closest in taste though is actually a good, smooth and slightly astringent young puerh. The taste profiles are very similar, with slightly more fruity notes from the dancong. The aftertaste, however, are extremely alike, and quite surprisingly so.
I have some mao cha from Hou De that are from the Nannuo mountain, and I think I’ll taste that tomorrow to see. The dancong really struck me today as tasting like a young puerh, somehow.
Maybe the puerh I’ve been drinking are all using Guangdong leaves!!!
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Phyllo // June 16, 2006 at 11:49 am |
You made it sound like I have some kind of an exotic dan cong on my hand! 🙂 This one was a gift from a relative — who happens to obtain stuff from Best Tea House — while she was in Guangzhou, so I don’t know which store it’s from. I still have a good 300+ gr of it, not including the other darker dan cong I have. I love them both!
MarshalN // June 16, 2006 at 1:24 pm |
I don’t know if it’s exotic or not, to be honest, because my dancong experience is relatively limited.
I will definitely have to explore more in this area and find out!
MANDARINstea // June 17, 2006 at 11:56 am |
fyi.
Do not go to the Best Tea House in Guangzhou. It’s not opened by Master Chan! That’s a black shop…
MarshalN // June 17, 2006 at 5:27 pm |
That’s what I heard before
But what’s this?
http://www.besttea.com.hk/branch.htm
Phyllo // June 17, 2006 at 6:26 pm |
I didn’t even know there is a Best Tea House in Guangzhou. My relative only buys stuff from Best Tea House in HK. Thanks for the heads up. Marshal, remember I showed you the packaging of the 21-year-old loose pu-erh that I got from guangzhou? It has the markings of Chan’s Tea House and Best Tea House that you couldn’t recognize…now I wonder…hmmm.
MarshalN // June 17, 2006 at 9:13 pm |
Yeah, I know, I have heard something about a dud Best Tea House in Guangzhou, which is why I was a little iffy on that one.
But if you look at that page, it clearly says they DO have a store in Guangzhou, so what’s going on?
So messed up