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Wonderful Orchid

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Tea: Wonderful Orchid (Qilan - 奇兰) Type: Charcoal Roasted Wuyi Rock Oolong Harvest: Spring 2024 Roast Type: Medium Region: Yanzi Valley, Wuyi Mountain, Fujian, China Producers: Yanzikeng FamilyTasting Notes: Buttered Toffy, Wild Orchid, Baked Cake, Iris, Ginger Bread Qilan, or the Wonderful Orchid, is one of the more aromatic Wuyi Yancha's produced in this rocky realm of North-Eastern Fujian.  Often less roasted than other common varietals such as Rougui or Big Red Robe, it is the bright frangarances of the Wonderful Orchid that producers seek to draw forth and accentuate.  If you like the fragrance-forward Dancong oolongs, but want a richer roast, then this is the tea for you. The warmed leaves give off the aroma of butter toffy and freshly baked cake, once brewed the floral fragrances come to fore, giving the unmistakable wild orchid aroma along with a thicker more pollen laden iris fragrance.  As the brews continue, the roast and leaves meld into something distinctly spicy, li

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