Golden Dragon Yellow Tea

Tea type
Yellow Tea
Ingredients
Yellow Tea Leaves
Flavors
Apricot, Astringent, Bitter, Bread, Butter, Floral, Malt, Nuts, Earth, Nectar, Savory, Smoke, Smooth, Thick, Green, Honey, Mineral, Round, Tannin, Metallic, Vanilla, Wheat, Sweet, Vegetal, Grass, Vegetables, Herbaceous
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Loose Leaf
Caffeine
Medium
Certification
Fair Trade, Organic
Edit tea info Last updated by AnnaEA
Average preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 2 min, 30 sec 4 g 12 oz / 369 ml

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  • “1/20/14 Midday tea. 3g/6oz/175F First steep – 2 minutes. Very much the same tea as the pot tasting. 2nd steep – 2 minutes. The aroma and color in cup are lighter, but the flavor is...” Read full tasting note
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  • “I’m baccck! Sorry it’s been so long, but I’ve been super busy. Stopped into a Teavana with friends the other night and they were offering this one up as a sample. To me it didn’t seem much...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Honestly, I love this tea; I bought 6oz of it. I miss the 90 bucks it all cost, but this tea is just great! If anyone can recommend a similar tea that is less expensive, I’d be forever in your...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Just had a cup of this tea in my gaiwan which I received from Anna as a sample. thank you very much Anna. A good cup of tea. A very gold color in my gaiwan which looks nice. The aroma is very...” Read full tasting note
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From Teavana

We are proud to offer one of the rarest teas in the world; our limited edition yellow tea direct from China. The name ‘yellow’ tea refers not only to the unique processing and the lovely, bright golden infusion color, but due to its rarity it is also associated with the imperial yellow worn exclusively by emperors for centuries. Unlike any tea you have tasted before, at first sip it evokes the exquisite pleasure of everyday luxuries. Captivating high floral notes mingle with a smooth honeyed body and a subtle creamy, buttery finish. A perfectly balanced tea curated just for you.

High floral top note with smooth, mellow body with a subtle buttery finish

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52 Tasting Notes

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1737 tasting notes

Golden Dragon is the most expensive tea at Teavana, so naturally I decided to try an ounce for one of my Starbucks rewards! At $30 for 2 ounces, my reward was valued at $15! I’d thought that I was making the most of my reward when I requested an ounce of gyokuro a while back, but little did I know that there was a tea from China even more expensive than Japan’s claim to tea fame!

Yellow dragon is good, no doubt. The leaves are multicolored, long, spindly and basically beautiful. They also have a scent about halfway between vegetables and baked bread. Once infused, the leaves have a very strong cooked vegetable scent and even reminded me of the scent of the Coors Beer Company, in Golden, Colorado. I used to go on long bike rides past the factory and was always struck by the scent of overcooked green beans (it was really the barley somehow, it seems…)

The liquor is peach veering brown, and the taste is very good indeed. I’m not convinced that this is twice or three times as good as some of the heartier green teas I’ve tried, which also boast a succulent quality. However, I’m a yellow tea gringo. I’ll try the Tazo Collection offering soon and see whether I can figure out what it is about yellow tea specifically that is supposed to make it so much more special than the robust China green teas I’ve enjoyed of late.

I realize that this tea is more difficult to prepare, as the leaves are allowed to wither slowly and turn yellow before they dry. But if that does not translate into a huge improvement in flavor, then what’s the point? Again, I’m a yellow tea gringo… I also don’t understand the people who eat cheese with maggots crawling out of it—but hey, that’s okay.

A chacun son goût!

(Blazing New Rating #53)

Flavors: Vegetables

Preparation
170 °F / 76 °C 2 min, 15 sec 4 g 17 OZ / 502 ML
TheTeaFairy

Yep, à chacun son goût is right…But I personally think that eating maggots is madness even if they are very high in protein!! (Reading this post might have ruined any possible further dégustation de fromage for me, lol!)

sherapop

It’s funny, isn’t it, The Tea Fairy, how we abhor moldy cheese if it’s not supposed to be moldy, but then people go crazy over Gorgonzola, etc.! ;-)

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85
37 tasting notes

The first yellow tea I’ve tried and I loved it. When I was in the store, the manager and barista were testing an interesting theory: The 1st steep and the 7th steep are the best; everything else tastes horrible.
I decided to partake in this research. I tried the 1st steep (gorgeous!), the 5th steep (bitter and not something I enjoyed at all), and the 7th steep… perhaps even better than the first! Not sure why someone would continue to resteep a tea that didn’t resteep well, but the 7th steep really was excellent.
As far as the tea goes, I’m glad I bought some.

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90
13 tasting notes

I am ordinarily a black tea purist. Sometimes I moonlight with oolongs, but as a rule anything lighter isn’t to my liking. I also drink tea like a Brit, tending to loads of sugar and cream.

This is the first tea that I have had where I didn’t need the cream and still enjoyed it.

I’d heard/read about the ‘buttery’ nature of this tea and wasn’t sure I wanted to know what that might entail…tea and butter together in the same sentence didn’t sound appealing in the slightest. Once brewed, however, I understood it’s more a matter of texture and silkiness than taste. The flavor is pleasantly herbal with a wonderful honey note that halved! my usual sugar requirement. This is my new favorite and is the first tea that has inspired me to actually invest in a Yixing kettle.

Flavors: Herbaceous, Honey

Preparation
2 min, 15 sec

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98
2 tasting notes

This is one of my favorite teas. I bought it because my oldest son and I share a love of fine teas and he requested it so I surprised him with a pot of it for our weekly tea time one evening. We both fell in love. We drink this tea without adding anything.

Flavors: Butter, Honey

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 2 min, 30 sec 4 tsp 28 OZ / 828 ML
JustJames

our youngest always gets into my tea, lol.

Skye Comstock

I can’t get my youngest ones(4 year old twins) to like any of it-though I keep trying. :)

JustJames

if you like teavana maybe try the coco caramel sea salt blend? our kids love it (even though they’re older) and it’s caffeine free so bedtime isn’t hampered!! lol.

Skye Comstock

I actually have some of that. Never tried giving it to the kids. Maybe that would be a good after dinner “treat” for them. I’ll try it. :)

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2 tasting notes

Tried it for the first time today, gong fu style. Used about 2 table spoons of tea for ~100ml of water and 80-87 Celsius water. I think I might have used too much tea or steeped it for too much (although I barely steeped it longer than 10s), but I didn’t manage to get a non-bitter brewing. However, the bitterness was not so bad and even enjoyable, not like when you oversteep a green tea. The smell was just immensely sweet and definitely not grassy. The aftertaste is dense and pleasantly bitter as well. Finally, a good thing about this tea is that I managed to get a lot of infusions with it.

I will try brewing it with less tea and colder water next time.

Preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 0 min, 15 sec 5 tsp 3 OZ / 100 ML

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90
17 tasting notes

This was my first yellow tea and I really loved it. I usually blend this with green teas to get that extra buttery taste, but on it’s own it has an almost soba-butteriness to it. I drink a lot of it at work and will be sad when it leaves.

Flavors: Butter, Earth, Mineral

Preparation
190 °F / 87 °C 2 min, 15 sec 2 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML

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95
3 tasting notes

One of my favorites! Excellent quality. Subtle but full-bodied. Great for night time since it doesn’t have too much caffeine. Looking forward to sharing this tea for special dinner parties. I highly recommend.

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 3 min, 0 sec

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100
15 tasting notes

Very high quality. I can tell they put a lot of thought and time into this tea!

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91
10 tasting notes

Really lovely—has a very sweet, flowery smell before steeping, with silver and gold twists of buds and leaves. Once steeped, it has a mellow flavor, sort of akin to a silver needle in terms of mouthfeel and smoothness, but with a bit of a sweet floral note and what I can only describe as a buttery finish. A rare treat. I’ve only resteeped this one once, but I plan on seeing how it stands up to further steeps, since it’s such a precious tea.

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 3 min, 0 sec
Daniil

Oh, it’s definitely a good re-steeping material!

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