The plant of this tea is tall, has high branches with leaves that are oval in shape, with blunt tips and dark green leaves. This tea is also known as "Lingtou Dancong".

This tea has a wonderful stone fruit flavor with notes of sweet, savory, and fullness. It has a mild flavor and a fruity scent. This tea has an appealing honey fragrance that is gentle on the tongue with a subtle taste and orange-red soup color. The clean aftertaste lingers for a long time.

Legend has it that this tea plant has been around for hundreds of years. It used to grow by itself on a large rock in the Shuangxia Mountain Canyon. Next to it was a rushing silver waterfall, and the valley was always foggy.

This tea is discovered during the Qing Dynasty by an old tea farmer in Lingtou. Tea merchants went up the mountain to buy Lingtou Qilan, no matter how difficult it was to get there or how far away it was. The tea has been passed down for five generations, but it has faced three disasters in modern times and is in danger of becoming extinct.

The best water for making this tea should be natural or spring water, which will enhance the taste of the tea.

For a Phoenix oolong this tea is fairly easy to drink. A lot of oolongs from Phoenix Mountain tend to be very fragrant. Some people don't care for the strong floral scents you normally get from a Phoenix Oolong. The flavor of this tea is very balanced. It features a little bit of floral with a very refreshing sweetness, such as you would normally find in a wildflower.

The aroma also has a very subtle wildflower quality mingled with a sweet peach.

Brewing this tea is very easy. if you make sure you have good spring water, you can't go wrong brewing it. It's pretty hard to make this tea bitter by accident.

Harvest: Spring 2020 

Elevation: 1200m

Origin: Chaozhou City, Guangdong Province

Notes: Peach, Citrus, Wildflower

Whether you're looking to be a little quirky in your life, or you know someone that needs something new and original but still can't resist good tea, this duckshit oolong is just the thing for you. But we warn you - it might just tempt some of your more fashionable friends on a shopping spree with its funky name!

There's an often-told story behind the unappetizing name. They say a famous and successful tea farmer got so fed up with everyone asking about the secret to his masterpiece oolong that he started to make a joke, telling everyone that the secret to his tea was the duck droppings he used as fertilizer for his plants.

This oolong is baked using charcoal twice. The tea is first baked using an oven with a lower temperature (90c) for about 8 hours to remove the water content in the tea leaves. Rest for 3 weeks, and then baked using charcoal for 18 hours with 120c temperature. This tea will taste better when it has been aged for at least 4 to 6 months.

This is not your ordinary oolong tea. It's nutty and addicting like a toasted peanut. Its floral notes are just the perfect amount - you'll want to relax after drinking it, forget about all of life's problems! A rare gem in the world of teas - this duckshit oolong will surely become an instant favorite!

Gongfu Brewing Instructions:

Use 4g for 100ml gaiwan. Rinse the tea real quick. Steep for 45 seconds on the first two infusions after the rinse. Steep for one minute for the third infusions.   

Alternate Name: Ya Shi Xiang; Silver Flower; Yin Hua Xiang

Chinese Character: 鸭屎香；银花香 

Harvest: Spring 2021 

Elevation: 1200m

Origin: Chaozhou City, Guangdong Province

Notes: Vanilla, Toasted Peanuts, Almonds, Orchid

Tea Drunk Level: High

If there were a perfume that used oolong as its scent, this would be the oolong to use. “Perfume” can sound negative when talking about a tea, especially when so many have scents artificially infused. But this Dan Cong Mi Lan oolong has an amazing natural aroma that anyone would enjoy.

This is easily one of our most popular Dan Cong oolongs we have in the shop. The unique sweet honey aftertaste with the relaxing orchid aroma is totally unique to this variety. The rocky minerality of the flavor of the tea adds to the complexity of the overall flavor of the tea.

We urge everyone to use only spring water with this tea. A Yixing clay teapot brings out the delicious minerality even more.

Alternate Name: Mi Lan Xiang

Origin: Phoenix Town, Guang Dong Province, China

Notes: Orchid, Honey, Nectar, Roasted 

The tempting aroma and sweet aftertaste of honeysuckle is not the only thing you'll be smelling when drinking this tea. The mineral-rich flavor hints at a complexity that ranges from minerally to nearly floral, depending on your readiness to accept its differences in taste between steepings.

Da Ye, translating literally to “big leaf”, is a cultivar of the Phoenix oolong tea family with leaves that are usually very large and dark in color. The name comes from its size - it can grow up to be as big around as your hand! It's also unique because this type has an orchid fragrance that gives off light floral flavors during steeping; perfect for those who love fresh tasting teas without any bitterness or astringency like other types may provide.

Origin: Phoenix City, Guang Dong Province, China