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Smooth and sweet

Some other shu pu-erh may be smooth and sweet too, but this one also has richer taste than others I had before. My favourite pu-erh now it becomes.

White Peony Flips the Dial on Mass Marketing

A classic American TV commercial depicts three brothers at the breakfast table, pushing around a bowl to avoid eating the “healthy” cereal inside it. Finally, the youngest child takes a bite, then another. “He likes it! Hey Mikey!” his brothers exclaim.

A similar miracle happened when my ten-year-old son tried White Peony Classic Floral, a beverage that actually is good for him. This is a kid who would brush his teeth with root beer if I allowed it. Enter White Peony. OMG, he likes it! He says it’s sweet, though unbeknownst to him, it is pure with nothing added. Score another one for tea and deal another blow to the junk drink industry.

When will this tea arrive this year

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Brief (few seconds) steeps in 90 Celsius water.
Liquor is of a clear deep caramel in tone.
Taste is smooth, earthy/woody spiced sugary sweet, with a minty finish.
It has a long brown sugar sweet aftertaste that lingers in the mouth.
No tartness nor bitterness.
Medium mouthfeel, slightly dry and sticky, encouraging salivation.
If you let it cool down a bit, you’ll get a more pronounced earthy sweetness with a hint of astringency.
Wet leaves are an even dark brown in colouring and large in size, giving off a minty spiced sugar aroma.
This tea withstands many steeps.
I think this would make a great iced tea.

Wow, what a delicious and amazing experience. The roast on this is flawless, it perfectly exemplifies what good firing techniques can, and should, do to the Bai Ye cultivar.

Bai Ye is a pretty common cultivar, the market is flooded with it and most of it is, at best, middle of the road quality. A lot of Bai Ye is processed & sold as Mi Lan Xiang, and although there is an authentic Mi Lan Xiang cultivar, most of what’s sold to the Western-facing market is not the real thing. Anyways, Tea Hong’s Phoenix Classic is not a wanna-be Mi Lan, nor is it a middle-of-the-road example of Bai Ye. It’s priced like a daily drinker, but drinks like a special treat.

The flavor profile is just so deep and layered, with complex notes of tropical fruits like passionfruit and lychee, accented perfectly by the flawless roast which only adds to the sweet and fruity notes rather than smothering or obscuring them. The body of this tea is smooth but pungent, with distinct notes of peaches, moss, and woods. It’s like walking through a thick forest on a hot summer day and feeling the fresh aromatics of the soil and trees working their way deeper and deeper into your lungs. There’s something spiritually satisfying about this tea.

As I continue through my session, the clarity of the flavor profile continues to grow and so too does the strength of the aftertaste. The fruity flavors get stronger, and the peachy, nectar-like sweetness clings for longer, emanating from the back of my throat for at least one full hour before subsiding.

The roast is detectable across the full session, but never felt on the palate. This is amazing, and while most people would overlook this characteristic, I want to point it out because it’s a sign of mastery in processing when you can get Fenghuang oolong to have a detectable level of charcoal in the aroma without having any detectable charcoal in the flavor profile. It’s only in the background, supporting and highlighting and accentuating all of the other flavors, and it never touches the palate by itself.

This is a new daily drinker for me. I will always have some of this in my collection.