What our customers say

This tea was the embodiment of the wonder, and sublime calm and peace in a tea cup some of us seek. What more could one wish for from a tea?

Your review is like a poem! Thank you for sharing your experience with us and so very, very happy that you like one of my personal most favourites. This is the very tea that totally converted me from my previous profession into advocacy for fine tea.

Excellent Tea

Good orchid aroma with a clear floral and cinnamon flavor. Good huigan, body, and thickness in the mouth. Smooth, slightly sour taste which is extremely pleasant. Short gongfu brews produce depth of flavor, revealing layers of mineral and sweet flavors. One of the best Rou Gui’s I’ve ever had.

I find it amazing that you, as such a committed oolong drinker, could adapt to the entirely different sensory dimension of an ancient style green tea to give an account of such detailed taste experience. Amongst all our green tea selections, Luan Guapian and Bamboo Leaf are two most “untamed” style of tea. Particularly for people who grew up in a culture of teabags, tea mixes or bottled tea, as I dare to point out cultural-incorrectedly, these teas can be nakedly too real in their embodiment of the raw tea-ness ( more so even than pu’er maocha in many ways ). Yet your words describe so intricately its wonders the same of which have convinced me to include them in my repertoire. I hope more could have the same open-mindedness in the epicurean sphere of tea. Maybe it will then be a much more peaceful world.

Hey Chiam, I am glad you like this Baxian. It is one of my own favourites too.

After having tried all of the other Fenghuang oolong in Tea Hong’s catalog, I knew I had to pick up a bag of this. I’m not a big fan of scented teas; but if this was to be anything like the other dancong in the catalog, then I knew it would be a good experience.

Gui Hua is one of my favorite cultivars, and a good unscented version is hard to find – who knows, maybe one day Tea Hong will carry one 🙂

I find that; with most scented dancong, the experience doesn’t end up being cohesive… it’s almost like the evolution of flavors moves the two ingredients in separate directions, creating a general lack of harmony in the cup. The front-end is too muted and the back-end is too thin, with a relatively weak middle that isn’t very expansive or deep. For this reason, scented dancong usually doesn’t hit the spot for me.

This, however, is totally different. The depth of flavor is excellent, with an oily mouthfeel that conveys the characteristic Fenghuang minerality quite well. It’s easily the deepest and most intricately layered version of a scented dancong I’ve come across, with a harmonized integration between the Mi Lan base material and the osmanthus flowers. It’s got excellent strength in the aftertaste, with very long-lasting notes of osmanthus and undertones of honey-soaked lychee. There are some soft bites of citrus fruits which bring some brightness to the flavor profile and a kind of clarity to the minerality.

Overall a very enjoyable experience.