What grade is Phoenix eight Immortals single fir tea? what are its characteristics? Can I drink the head of Phoenix Dancong tea?

Among all the flower-style Phoenix oolong, the eight Immortals-- the eight Immortals-- is not only my favorite, but also when my health is threatened or depressed, I often turn to it for help.

This is also the tea chosen by Phoenix producers in the tea competition to best represent their technology. It is indeed one of the best wines in Phoenix, but it is not the easiest to make, and its taste is not easy to attract beginners.

A good eight Immortals will not be as fragrant as Milan and Huangzhixiang. But its fragrance still lasts. This lasting non-dominant friendship may be one of the reasons why it has a group of experienced drinkers.

What really fascinates me, however, is the soothing, smooth and calming taste of this single cong, in addition to its treatment for colds, flu, depression and early symptoms that feel heavy. In this case, I usually add 7 to 8 grams of tea to the 150ml cover bowl, blanch it with 95 °C water and soak for at least 30 seconds.

A better tea is one in which you can make more time. Do you mean it?

It is said that the better the tea, the more times it will be brewed. This is perhaps the most common illusion in the tea circle, no matter how illogical and unscientific its basis is. Try to brew any kind of tea for 10 minutes and see how many times you can drink it. Try to compare 30 seconds of high-quality Tieguanyin with mature Tieguanyin in each round to see how many rounds you can play.

It is true that good tea contains more flavored substances, but what really matters is the total amount of these soluble ingredients in a certain amount of tea brewed each time. In other words, even if there is only one round, how pleasant it is to brew tea in the way you are used to it.

The physical form of tea affects the rate at which it releases its contents. Some teas are thicker, some are shabby, some of the skins are intact, and so on. Most importantly, some people like to drink a little more flavor each time, while others simply make the tea very light. This greatly affects the relative length of tea soaking, thus affecting the percentage of extractable substances in each round of tea.

For me, if I use gaiwan's short perfusion time method, I will increase the time in each round of continuous perfusion by 20-50%. Even the best eight Immortals, I am happy for five rounds.

After so many rounds, I feel lighter and less tense. If I had time, I would go to Phoenix again later in the day, about four or five hours.

What you need to know: harvest and timing

The eight Immortals Tea Tree is the highest tea tree in Fenghuang Mountain. The first harvest is usually in early May. I always only buy that kind of harvest. All the respectful farmers on the mountain, such as Wudong and Stone, only harvest once a year.

There is a view that all bouquet-style dances are best when fresh. This is because most vendors basically only sell Mao tea. Maocha of any kind of tea is unstable and will change. Raw Pu'er is a good example.

A good Phoenix producer always bakes freshly processed tea leaves thoroughly after classifying their stems. For me, I prefer the second round of hot tea a month later to lock in the real benefits of tea: its calming taste. This extra process gives not only depth, but also the potential for maturity. However, in an important high-quality oolong tea producing area, there are not as many excellent producers as you might think.

How is a humble being immortal?

At the end of the 19th century, a poor farmer named Wen Dihuan Cong purchased some cuttings of black leaves (variety name, that is, you Wu Da) and transplanted them in his hometown Li Zaiping Wudong Phoenix Mountain vein (Fenghuangshan, Chaozhou region, Guangdong). After successfully cultivating eight seedlings, Wen Yuzhang's problem now is to find a garden for them. He is so poor that he doesn't have any land except a few meters of vegetable land near his shed.

He creatively found a dot between the rocks on the higher hillside nearby, so small that no one wanted to grow anything on it. So these young trees grow in different cracks in the rocky slopes around Li Zaiping. Miraculously, a few years later they began to produce good tea. They have developed a more complex and deeper sense of taste than their parents.

Wen Yuzhang called his agricultural products "going to Zailiao" and paid tribute to the village where he got the plants.

About 60 years later, after several dynasties, in 1958, in an era of mythological but anti-religious creation, an officer of the local government's tea tax regiment saw and tasted the harvest of these scattered mature trees. He said that the eight trees are like "eight Immortals crossing the sea"-an ancient fable with the same number of fairies, each with unique skills to cross a mysterious ocean to reach divinity.

When a figure representing the entity of absolute power says so, small farmers will naturally follow suit. Since then, the yield of these trees has been called the "eight Immortals", later referred to as the eight Immortals. This is the only breed of Phoenix with such a sacred name. Other cultivated varieties are named after the taste, location, appearance, or history of the plant.

Other bouquet-style Phoenix Dan bushes, including the famous duck shit, magnolia and ginger flowers, will be introduced separately in future articles.