Yunnan Golden, traditional black tea, 40 g
US$14.8
excluding tax and tariff
明前 金尖滇紅
The People’s Black Tea:
It is said that the first Yunnan black tea was made here in Feng Qing. It is also the origin of the golden tippy tea that was presented as a national gift to Queen Elizabeth II when she first visited China in 1986. To us, what matters more is the pleasant, oatsy tea liquor with that distinct apple flavour and slight bite of citrus that you can drink all day, leaving the mouth feeling fresh and moist anytime in the subtlest way. This friendly taste profile is possible only with select first flush, non-blended leaves properly processed and baked optimally for balance of fragrance and dryness. Our staff says it is the people’s tea. Aptly named.
Read more: Dianhong — Tea Born of a War
Net weight: 40 g (1.4 oz) in Kraft-alu pack
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Feng Qing Golden Tip:
Some people think that the more the golden tip, the better the quality of a black tea. For a real connoisseur, however, it is the taste profile made possible by properly managing all the variables throughout production that matters. Don’t be convinced by the rich dark chocolate aroma of the dry leaves either. What matters is the round and complex body in the clear deep golden red liquor possible only with the first flush leaves from the deep mountains in Fengqing, the origin of Dianhong.
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Gold Needles Supreme:
Deep in the mountains in Lincang, native tree type tea plants have prospered for millenniums. There are so many huge tea trees that people say this is where tea itself originated. From these old tea forests we have reserved some finest first flushes for producing our special quality Dianhong. For drinkers who feel Yunnan Golden is too easy tasting, and Dianhong Classic too smooth, Lincang Centenarians has a complexity that is possible only from leaves slowly grown on old trees and which roots reach deep enough for the richest of minerals in the mountain soils. Same luscious taste profile as the finest classic Dianhong, yet tinkling with more notes.
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Taste profile
Nose: Fresh aroma like that of a forest after the rain yet warmed with an overtone of cereal cookies and touches of apple, cinnamon and light accents of chilly pepper. Palate: Refreshing, pleasantly direct infusion that can be sweet when at lighter strength, and malty and lightly citric when stronger. Finish: Accents of orange peel and light apple sweet aftertaste.
Infusion tips
This is a versatile black tea for enjoying plain or with condiments like lemon, brown sugar or with milk etc. If you like to make it stronger, use more leaves and relatively shorter time for extra body and roundness. Optimum infusion temperature 95°C.
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1 review for Yunnan Golden, traditional black tea, 40 g
Yunnan Golden, traditional black tea, 40 g
Shiguping Wulong, rare Phoenix oolong, 40 g
Fenghuang | Phoenix, Fuller Bodies, Lighter Aromas, Neutral-Cool Energy, Oolongs, Tea鳳凰隱世珍品 極限量 石古坪烏龍
Rare Indigenous Cultivar:
To us, offering the extremely rare Shiguping Wulong is not a challenge enough. We think we should give you the best of its kind. Trekking further deep into the mountain above the elusive main village of Shiguping, we found the patch of land which the locals called Liao-xi-ya, where it all began. The tea is softer, yet fuller and even more complex than that in the main village. The very original Shiguping Wulong*, as highly acclaimed by the man who devoted all of his life in advocating oolongs of Phoenix, the 74 years-old tea specialist Huang Bozi.
Net weight: 40 g (1.4 oz) in Kraft-alu pack 
Huangshan Maofeng Supreme, traditional green tea, 40 g / 70 g
Cool Energy, Green teas, Huangshan & Anhui, Lighter Aromas, Milder Tastes, Tea黃山毛峰 明前嫰芽
Pre-Qingming Maofeng:
Huangshan (translate: Yellow Mountain) is an UNESCO World Heritage Site and a China national conservation. Besides beautiful sceneries, it is also the origin for many a fine teas, such as Huangshan Maofeng. The tender young leaf shoot to make Tea Hong's Huangshan Maofeng Supreme is always plucked with one or two tiny immediate leaves before Spring Equinoix, and always before Qing Ming. Always from the few small family tea farms in the high mountains that we buy from. It is a rare quality even in the market in Huangshan, and if you ever found it, would be at a much higher price. Working directly with producers is a principal at Tea Hong. While offering quality at a reasonable price is one immediate benefit that you as a consumer can enjoy, there are more important reasons and not so immediate results that we aim at. Your patronage means great support for our cause.
Two pack options available, 40g or 70g net weight, please choose at below: 
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Floral Aromas, Fuller Bodies, Neutral Energy, Oolongs, Tea, Wuyi-shan武夷岩茶、清香新品肉桂
Tea Hong’s Most Bouquet Wuyi Oolong
Great discipline in the use of fire distinguishes Cassia Extraordinaire from most other Wuyi varieties with a supple, deliciously floral and delicate scent balanced with a full, lively body. Thanks to this masterful baking, this lighter style Wuyi oolong keeps well and improves with extended storage, as it should traditionally. This is our most “bouquet” style Wuyi oolong, being on the other end of the scale as the deep baked classic style Cassia Classic or Red Cloak Grande in Tea Hong’s proud Wuyi repertoire.
Net weight: 40 g (1.4 oz) in Kraft-alu pack 
Snow Orchid, bouquet Phoenix dancong oolong, 40 g
Cold Energy, Fenghuang | Phoenix, Floral Aromas, Fuller Bodies, Oolongs, Tea鳳凰冬茶、雪片鴨屎香
Xuepian Ya-shi Xiang:
Finer winter Phoenix oolongs have always been sought after for their unforgettable natural bouquet fragrances. To us, an aroma of a premium tea has to be complete with a winning taste profile. It has taken us over a decade to fine tune the mastery of the processing of the choicest harvest to attain a result we can be proud of. Presenting Tea Hong’s very own Snow Orchid, the roundest, smoothest, and by far the most seductively fragrant oolong ever known. It is our luscious indulgence secretly from Nature.
Net weight: 40 g (1.4 oz) in Kraft-alu pack
I’ve had so many different renditions of Dian Hong from Feng Qing that when I initially saw this black tea, I scrolled by it without thinking twice. I’m glad I eventually came around to trying it though. This is an easy tea to push hard and get delicious cups of tea like clockwork.
If there was ever such a thing as a chocolate chip cookie in a liquid format, this would be it – rolled around in the typical Feng Qing terroir: rich and woody, with smooth apricot notes and a thick forest-floor spine to its flavor profile that resists turning astringent. It has a nice bright peppery sharpness to it that is immediately tempered by soft creamy notes of milk chocolate.
The leaves have a nice citric snappiness to them when over-steeped. It’s not unpleasant, it’s kind of nice to push the leaves hard and feel a little tanginess that is still possible to characterize as a flavor, rather than a collapse of symmetry between individual notes.
Compared to Dianhong Classic: this doesn’t feel like too much overlap. Yunnan Golden is more bright, open, and airy, trading off some complexity and texture in the body for a vastness and expansiveness in the aftertaste. Both are fantastic, and fun to brew side-by-side for comparison.
Arh! I am deeply impressed that not only are you able to tell the characters of this tea so eloquently, but have seen something that we forgot to mention when including this version of Dianhong next to the more intricate Dianhong Classic. Thank you! It really feels great to have a tea friend on the other side of the world who appreciates our work.