Dancong Huang Pian

When life gives you yellow slices, make some good tea! These large and wild-looking leaves and twigs are usually retained by the tea farmers for their own consumption, less sightly and intensely-flavoured as they are, but they are glad to share this rough cut for a much more affordable price. The Fenghuang Dancong-style processing it has gone though means it shares a hint of the same stone fruit-mineral-cream character as its siblings, in this case closest to yellow plum, but a higher proportion of twigs gives it a most pronounced roasted aroma, with the subtly-sweet aftertaste of liquorice root. An excellent choice for dipping one's toes into the Dancong world, for cold brewing, or even for culinary uses.