Pomelo Blossom Aroma

Tea type
Oolong Tea
Ingredients
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Flavors
Almond, Apricot, Citrus, Cream, Floral, Grapefruit, Honey, Mineral, Orange Blossom, Pine, Roasted, Sap, Tangerine, Wood, Bitter, Citrus Fruits, Citrusy, Ginger, Juicy, Marshmallow, Roasty, Smooth, Sweet
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Average preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 0 min, 15 sec 6 g 4 oz / 110 ml

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  • “This is my four hundredth tasting note! It’s been a fun ride! Given the state of my tea museum, I might be able to reach five hundred tasting notes without buying any more tea, though I expect to...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Quick note since I have little experience with Dan Cong oolong. It’s like liquid sunshine honey mixed with a roasty undertone that somehow brings crystallized ginger to the forefront, and it has...” Read full tasting note

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Our friend Eric Chan has been head of his family’s heirloom arbor for a decade now. A young, third-generation grower situated in the venerable Phoenix Mountain Range of Guangdong, Eric melds a reverence for varietal oolong with a thirst for experimentation. To celebrate our fifth year of buying from Chan, we sourced a lot from one of his oldest parcels: You Hua Xiang ‘Pomelo Blossom Aroma’ a Phoenix Oolong very popular in 1886, when the grove was planted, less so today. A contemplative infusion; minimal oxidation, bamboo basket tumbling, and a light finishing bake endow the old tree material with an ethereal floral quality. Notes of orange marmalade, yuzu, and elderflower liqueur.

Region: Fenghuang, Guangdong, China
Variety: You Hua Xiang ‘Pomelo Blossom Aroma’
Elevation: 850m
Harvest: April 7, 2021
Producer: Eric Chan
Brewing Recommendation: 6g tea | 340g water | 205F | 2:30

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This is my four hundredth tasting note! It’s been a fun ride! Given the state of my tea museum, I might be able to reach five hundred tasting notes without buying any more tea, though I expect to continue supporting the tea economy with my impulse purchases indefinitely. :)

Thanks again to Derk for the sample! I was drooling over a pomelo Dancong on White2Tea (or maybe somewhere else), so this is especially welcome. I steeped 6 g of leaf in 120 ml of 200F water for 10, 12, 15, 18, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50, 60, 90, 120, and 240 seconds.

The dry aroma is of pomelo, tangerine, orange blossom, honey, and roast. The first steep has notes of honey, roast, pomelo, orange blossom, tangerine, and wood. The next steep adds more honey, apricot, minerals, sap, and cream. I can definitely taste the roast behind the fruit and florals, though it’s not unpleasant. There’s more honey, citrus, orange/pomelo blossom, and roast in the next couple steeps, plus a nice apricot aftertaste. Steeps five and six are a bit softer, with almond, gentle orange and apricot, cream, florals, and roast. The tea seems well integrated and not overly roasty. In subsequent steeps, the roast starts to take over, with honey, pine, minerals, almonds, florals, and hints of orange and pomelo. I steeped this tea out for the pops of orange and florals amid the honey, minerals, wood, and roast.

Derk mentioned that this tea has lost some of its flavour, though that’s hard to believe given how much complexity it has now. I like the very distinct pomelo, orange, honey, and orange blossom flavours and aromas, which persist throughout the session in spite of the roast. This is a more balanced, appealing Dancong than some others I’ve had recently.

Flavors: Almond, Apricot, Citrus, Cream, Floral, Grapefruit, Honey, Mineral, Orange Blossom, Pine, Roasted, Sap, Tangerine, Wood

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 6 g 4 OZ / 120 ML
derk

So glad you enjoyed this one! I think my nose broke this year so maybe that’s I perceived flavor loss since the first time I tried it.

Leafhopper

I hope your nose broke metaphorically, not literally (which would be painful). Also, judging from your tasting notes lately, your nose is just fine! :)

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Quick note since I have little experience with Dan Cong oolong.

It’s like liquid sunshine honey mixed with a roasty undertone that somehow brings crystallized ginger to the forefront, and it has floral and fruity notes that are truly pomelo blossom and pomelo, also some apricot. Kind of juicy-creamy and nourishing with some tongue-numbing bitterness that doesn’t feel out of place at all.

Delicious :)

Flavors: Apricot, Bitter, Citrus Fruits, Citrusy, Cream, Floral, Ginger, Honey, Juicy, Marshmallow, Orange Blossom, Roasty, Smooth, Sweet

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 0 min, 15 sec 5 g 3 OZ / 100 ML
derk

Really enjoying a cold brew of the spent leaf this morning! Set the tone for the day.

derk

Pomelo marmalade if there is such a thing, crystallized ginger, roasty honey, marshmallow.

Crowkettle

Mm, I don’t think I’ve seen a pomelo oolong before.

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