![]() ![]() I am guessing this because I did not have a ton of most of these teas (usually sample sizes), and I did not take any long breaks from drinking in either late 2020 or early 2021. I think I actually finished what I had of this tea within two or three days of the Zhu Ye I just reviewed. Here is another of my late 2020/early 2021 Dancong oolong reviews. Incredibly tasty and powerful Duck Shit Aroma Dan Cong! The mouthfeel is delicate and soothing with a taste that perfectly balances sweet, bitter, and astringent notes, none of which are overpowering. The brewed tea is highly aromatic with flower, honey and longan notes. The tea itself is lightly oxidized and the leaves are still mostly green in color. True or not it’s an entertaining story which reveals why the tea has such a gross name. Villagers wanting to guard the uniqueness of their tea bushes told outsiders that the color and uniqueness of the soil in their village was due to copious amounts of duck shit and began to call the their Dan Cong “duck shit aroma”. ![]() With all teas the soil type is a key element in the tea’s taste. It’s called “duck shit aroma” because in the Ping Keng Tou village area the soil has a somewhat yellow brown look to it and is unique to that area. This tea is from 50 to 150 year old tea bushes and trees! Ya Shi Xiang Dan Cong (aka Duck Shit Aroma) is a rare Dan Cong varietal grown in and around Ping Keng Tou village in the Phoenix Mountains outside of Chaozhou in Guangdong Province. ![]()
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