Or latest addition to our Dancong maocha brick lineup, the Dawuye varietal. Maocha is a bit of a misnomer, how can a tea be both maocha [loose tea] and a brick? In this case, the term maocha refers to the Dancong oolong tea being left in its raw form before pressing. We commissioned this production to be left with stems and large leaves for this pressing. The brick is fruity sweet, with a balance of fresh green apple sweetness in the aroma and a darker stone fruit flavor profile. Layered scents dance between steeps, leaving a long trail behind them. Our Dancong oolong tea bricks are a little tricky to brew. Very punchy when pushed, we recommend dropping your leaf down a couple of grams and doing flash steeps gongfu style. The tea can often be heavily fragmented when broken off of the brick, which means the surface area is multiplied and the tea steeps fast and strong. For example, we usually brew 6 grams of raw Puer in a 100ml gaiwan, but for this tea we drop down to around 4 grams for a more even session. Each brick is 200 grams. This is a 2024 Dancong, pressed in early 2025.
