Golden Yunnan

Tea type
Black Tea
Ingredients
Not available
Flavors
Earth, Malt, Pepper, Autumn Leaf Pile
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Sachet
Caffeine
High
Certification
Not available
Edit tea info Last updated by Michael
Average preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 3 min, 45 sec 8 oz / 236 ml

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Black tea from the Yunnan region of China. Yunnan tea is easily identified by its luscious soft leaves, and a unique peppery taste. Our ‘Yunnan Gold’ as the name implies is an exceptional quality tea with beautiful gold-colored leaves and an abundance of rich peppery flavor. Allowed to take only one tea to a desert island, ‘Yunnan Gold’ would be our clear choice.

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39 tasting notes

A light tea with an earthy, malty, and slightly peppery flavor. Not the most interesting Yunnan black tea I’ve had, but not bad either.

Flavors: Earth, Malt, Pepper

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Advent calendar entry (I’m behind as usual). Yunnan is generally characterized as having spice and pepper. My sample pyramid was a little milder than that description would indicate, but it was extremely drinkable. Emphasis on was. (One of those teas that go so fast, you look at the bottom of the cup and ask, “When did I drink all that?”)

ashmanra

Some Yunnans are TOO peppery for me, but the golden ones are generally sweet potato-y and good!

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I like this tea, at least when I give it a good week or so between tastings. I’m not sure why I get sick of it, but I do. I think it’s the leaf-pile scent that remains after my nose gets used to the sweet and fruity aromas.

With that confession off my chest, let me stress that this is a quality tea with a lots of complex flavor that somehow doesn’t get lost even though there’s this up-front sort of astringency. Instead of a dry-mouthed tannin taste, what lingers is very pleasant. If it reads like I can’t write about this tea without mixing up the pleasant and unpleasant, that’s about right. What matters is that the tea never fails to engage, and I keep coming back to relive the experience.

Oh, I also tend to start out drinking this without any sweetener. By the time I finish the cup I usually add a bit. It’s more enjoyable with it, but it’s so interesting without.

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I am not much of a black tea person. I don’t do well with high astringency teas because they give me headaches, regardless of how tasty they might be. That is exactly why I love this tea.

It was actually the first Yunnan I knowingly had. No classic black bitterness to it at all. It’s got a lovely earthly taste, almost like a sweet sort of malt to it. I was sad when I got to the end of my tiny sampler tin of this. I just wanted to keep drinking it forever. I’ve had some other Yunnan’s that I’m pretty fond of, but this will forever hold a place in my heart as being my first.

Flavors: Autumn Leaf Pile, Earth

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 5 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML

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6 tasting notes

really smooth and delicate with a tiny bit of a smoky aftertaste.

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