Yunnan Golden, traditional black tea, 40 g
US$14.8
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.
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Net weight: 40 g (1.4 oz) in Kraft-alu pack
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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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| Shipping Weight | 90 g |
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| Dimensions | 18 × 9 × 5 cm |
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1 review for Yunnan Golden, traditional black tea, 40 g
Yunnan Golden, traditional black tea, 40 g
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Net weight: 40 g (1.4 oz) in Kraft-alu pack 
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Centenary Bush Dahong Pao:
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Net weight: 40 g (1.4 oz) in Kraft-alu pack 
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Pre-Qingming Maofeng:
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White Peony Zhenghe, traditional white tea, 40 g
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Browner Style Zhenghe Dabai:
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Net weight: 40 g (1.4 oz) in wide 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.