About Aged Phoenix Dan Cong Milky Honeysuckle Flavour

This Aged Phoenix Dan Cong Milky Honeysuckle Flavour is made from tea trees over 50 years old. Compared with regular Ya Shi Xiang, it carries an added layer of old bush character, with a deeper, more settled liquor, fuller body, stable returning sweetness, and a more mature drinking profile. Rather than focusing only on bright floral aroma, this tea places more emphasis on woody notes, depth, and the distinctive old bush aftertaste.

Built on the floral and honeyed character of Ya Shi Xiang, this old bush version develops a deeper structure, woodiness, and a more lasting finish, making it calmer, richer, and more suitable for slow gongfu brewing.

Appearance & Taste

Aged Phoenix Dan Cong Milky Honeysuckle Flavour

The dry leaves are tightly twisted and elongated, dark brown in colour, with a clean roast and complete leaf shape, showing the mature appearance typical of Phoenix Dan Cong.

Once brewed, the liquor is bright golden to orange-yellow. The aroma has a settled floral base, supported by woody notes, light honey sweetness, and old bush character. The taste is smooth with good depth. A slight opening astringency gradually turns into returning sweetness. Compared with spring Ya Shi Xiang, this tea is less focused on immediate aromatic lift and more on liquor depth, lingering fragrance, and a long aftertaste.

Taste: Bitter, Honey, Honeysuckle, Sweet

Brewing Guide

Tea Cup

2 g

100°C (125ml)

2-3 mins

Enjoy!

Glass

4 g

100°C (250ml)

2-3 mins

Enjoy!

Teapot

8 g

100°C (500ml)

2-3 mins

Enjoy!

Kongfu Style

Use 2–3g of tea with 100°C water and steep for 2–3 minutes. Adjust to taste. The liquor is smooth, settled, and suitable for daily drinking.

Origin

This tea comes from the Phoenix Mountain tea region in Chaozhou, Guangdong. The area has a mild, humid climate, abundant rainfall, frequent mountain mist, and shorter sunlight hours, creating suitable conditions for Dan Cong tea trees. Mountain soils rich in organic matter and trace minerals help shape Phoenix Dan Cong’s fragrance, returning sweetness, and distinctive aftertaste.

Origin: Guangdong

Picking & Production

This tea is made from fresh leaves of old bush Phoenix Dan Cong trees, following traditional Dan Cong processing. The leaves undergo sun-withering, cooling, shaking, fixing, rolling, and roasting. Older bush material has richer internal content and is usually roasted and rested several times, allowing the roast to settle and better integrate with the aroma, old bush character, and liquor depth.

5 reviews for Aged Phoenix Dan Cong Milky Honeysuckle Flavour

Rated 4 out of 5

Nathan Peters – 19/07/2023

Good tea to start the morning
Rated 4 out of 5

michaelcaruso91 – 10/05/2022

This is a very smooth tea, love the creaminess to this one, very unique and one of my fave oolong I’ve tasted yet
Rated 5 out of 5

David – 14/04/2021

Easily one of my favourite teas now. The flavours are so complex and can change depending on how you brew it.
Rated 5 out of 5

Ebony – 23/03/2021

This is so complex I feel like I should be describing a bottle of wine, lol. I think what I enjoy most is that it can be brewed in so many different ways to affect the flavour. It’s kind of like making a great coffee – when you get it just the way you like it, you feel like an artist!
Rated 5 out of 5

alexanderlau25 – 12/03/2021

It actually has a milky scent to it, and is quite smooth to the throat when brewed right. If you steep a too long, a bit of bitterness can slip in, but that’s probably something I need to work on.

Definitely one of my top teas now.