Nonpareil Yunnan Dian Hong Ancient Wild Tree Black Tea

Tea type
Black Tea
Ingredients
Not available
Flavors
Honey, Raisins, Sugar, Fruity, Berry, Dark Chocolate, Leather, Malt, Meat, Roasted, Spicy, Sweet, Earth, Tannic, Wood, Melon, Brown Sugar, Chocolate, Dried Fruit, Molasses, Spices, Cedar, Dates, Flowers, Smoke, Bread, Caramel, Grapes, Grain, Tobacco, Mineral, Pine
Sold in
Loose Leaf
Caffeine
Not available
Certification
Not available
Edit tea info Last updated by Blodeuyn
Average preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 2 min, 45 sec 7 g 12 oz / 367 ml

From Our Community

1 Image

12 Want it Want it

18 Own it Own it

  • +3

50 Tasting Notes View all

From Teavivre

Enjoy this cup of top grade and elegant Yunnan Dian Hong Black Tea
Origin Place: Xiaowan & Pinghe, Fengqing County, Yunnan
Dry Tea: tight and wiry with plenty tips, even shape, dark and smooth.
Tea Liquid: bright in orange yellow color.
Flavor: strong floral fragrance, tastes mellow, rich and full with strong sweet aftertaste.
Tea Leaf: after brewed, the tea leaf is complete and glossy.
This Ancient Wild Tree black tea comes from Fengqing, Yunnan. The tea garden is at 2000 meters high, is renowned as a good place of growing good tea.
The local tea tree is Fengqing large leaf species, can produce thick tea leaf. Our Ancient Wild Tree black tea then has large, strong leaves. The dry tea is glossy and dark, covered with thin pekoes. Its full aroma and bold taste can be revealed when brewed, as well as the particular strong taste which brings a characteristic of raw pu-erh to this black tea.
Yunnan Province has an abundant resource of wild tea trees, some of which have been lived for over a thousand years. These trees are protected and regarded as treasures to live to this day.
Wild tea trees are often used for making pu-erh tea and black tea. For making black tea, the result product can have a very distinct combined feature of Yunnan’s black tea and Yunnan’s pu-erh. Just as the name indicates, this black tea is made of the leaves from ancient wild tea tree. Being processed in the traditional way of crafting Dian Hong tea, this wild tree black tea has been given a unique charm of being bold but delicate.

About Teavivre View company

Company description not available.

50 Tasting Notes

82
1758 tasting notes

This is a complex tea. I get a number of different notes. Fruity, malt, spices, honey, brown sugar, dried fruit and molasses. I also seem to get a chocolate note. This is an interesting and tasty tea that I am just getting around to trying. Bought it with my last order during their sale on oolong. I’m afraid it only got brewed western style. I’m too lazy to brew gongfu at five in the morning when I can’t sleep.

I brewed this once in a 16oz Glass Teavana Perfect Tea Maker/Gravity Steeper with 3 tsp leaf and 190 degree water for 3 min.

Flavors: Brown Sugar, Chocolate, Dried Fruit, Fruity, Honey, Malt, Molasses, Spices

Preparation
3 tsp 16 OZ / 473 ML
MzPriss

This is my favorite black tea from Teavivre

Login or sign up to leave a comment.

79 tasting notes

Surprisingly light, fruity and floral! Taste makes me think of a bag of assorted dried fruits. I can’t wax on poetically like some do so well, but this is a nice different cup of black tea from what I’m accustomed to. Tempted to keep some around depending on how the rest of my Teavivre samples go.

Login or sign up to leave a comment.

987 tasting notes

I think I’ve had this a few times but I’m still figuring out the steeping parameters. Tried it yesterday and today with 1 tsp per cup at 90C. At 3 minutes it was kind of bland, but at 4 it was kind of funky.

Should I overleaf? Underleaf? Still not sure.

I like the smell of the dry leaf though – it’s got a chocolaty note that reminds me of Jin Jun Mei.

Login or sign up to leave a comment.

1040 tasting notes

This doesn’t seem like a typical dian hong to me. It’s really sweet and quite fruity. A little grape a little malt and a little strange. Not my favorite but happy to have tried it.
Thanks Sil for the sample.

Sil

gotta try them all! ;)

Dexter

Yep. Best part of the adventure finding the hits and misses. :)

MzPriss

My favorite from Teavivre

Tealizzy

I love the fruitiness of this one!

Login or sign up to leave a comment.

290 tasting notes

Backlog.

Another sample from Angel at Teavivre, for which I am phenomenally grateful.

So, catching up with writing up the teas once more, I find myself coming to my notes on this one. I brewed it in a gaiwan for a change and felt the extra effort was well worth it.

Upon adding water to the leaf I was immediately hit by a waft of malt and raisins, and the resultant liquor was very dark. It tasted primarily of malt and raisins with a pleasing bitterness at the back of the throat. Apart from this bitterness, the main experience was smooth and mellow, developing more rounded fruity notes as it cooled. There was a hint of winter berries in the colder brew supported by notes of allspice that gave it a Christmassy feel. The aftertaste was thick and sweet. Overall, yet another tea that I would be happy to have in my cupboard in quantity.

Flavors: Fruity, Malt, Raisins, Spices

Preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 1 min, 0 sec 7 g 6 OZ / 170 ML
mrmopar

Hellow Mr R ! Been missin ya on here!

Roughage

Thanks, mrmopar. I’ve been reading but not writing lately. Lost my writing mojo but I’m hoping to get it back on track, because I have several more Teavivre teas to write up.

mrmopar

Yah I need to clear my back log. Training new employees at work takes a bunch of my time lately.

Roughage

It’s all job and funding applications for me. Kills the desire to write about much else.

Login or sign up to leave a comment.

1186 tasting notes

Thanks to Angel at teavivre for this free sample! I didn’t log my first cup of this apparently and didn’t pay a ton of attention to my cup this morning lol so I will write a more detailed note later! This was fruity, malty, a bit sweet, and really good. A good feeling after drinking it and it wasn’t a heavy black tea. So far, yum! And yes, a more detailed note later :)

Tealizzy

Love this one!

Login or sign up to leave a comment.

90
1737 tasting notes

Another delicious haute black from China. It’s somewhat hard to believe how the flood of mediocrity coming out of that land permanently tarnished our expectations regarding all things Chinese. Fortunately, worthy companies such as Teavivre are working hard to dispel the negative stereotypes…

I have not always been thrilled with Dian Hong teas, but the key words here appear to be ancient wild tree. Very tasty indeed—both the first and the second infusion. This is the sort of fine black tea which makes one wonder why in the world anyone would ever have thought to add flavors or cream…

Login or sign up to leave a comment.

75
709 tasting notes

Here I go with another sample from Teavivre. I believe I only have one more left to try after this one. It is a happy/sad moment. I like having new possibly delicious teas on the horizon but I also like having sampled them all so I know what is the best for me. The dry leaf on this one is similar to yesterday’s (nonpareil yunnan dian hong chinese red black tea) but has more of a malt and molasses note. Maybe sweet potatoes, but I actually don’t like sweet potatoes so I rarely let my brain smell it in a tea.

I steeped this one about 2 minutes, as it had a shorter recommended steep time on the package. Again, I used nearly boiling water, and half the sample packet. The steeped aroma is very much like a classic bagged tea. It smells strong and bitter, like builder’s tea. I assume this is one of those aroma tricks that tea does.

First sips more closely match the dry leaf aroma. I am getting some molasses type sweetness, some rich cocoa, richer than anticipated. It is also malty, and boldly flavoured but not bitter or astringent. It is really bold, and if it weren’t for the lack of bitterness, I would actually think this wasn’t a Chinese tea!

I do like it well enough, but it isn’t especially remarkable to me. A good Chinese black tea to sip on, but not one that makes me sit up and take notice. If you are considering between this and the the Nonpareil Yunnan Dian Hong Chinese Red Black Tea, I say go with the other. If you’re looking for a generally solid cuppa that you don’t have to think about, go for this one. Still yummy, just not as impressive as some other Teavivre offerings.

Login or sign up to leave a comment.

70
15019 tasting notes

this one is a generous sample from teavivre. It was on my wishlist to try so i was super happy to get this one as part of the teas angel sent on. This one tastes familiar. I can’t seem to place it this morning but it reminds me of another tea that i’ve had….while also reminding me of more of a oolong type tea. there’s a sweetness here that’s nice, but there’s also an underlying almost mineral like taste to me. On the whole, while it’s nice…it’ s not a tea for me.

Login or sign up to leave a comment.

87
326 tasting notes

Tea provided by Teavivre for review

Without smelling the dry or wet leaves, all my first impressions came from sipping the first steep. I was a bit surprising to taste citrus (or something that tastes similar). There was also a nice bittersweet chocolate flavour (not overly sweet) and a nice woodsy/earthy characteristic to the black tea body.

Each resteep was pleasant. I really enjoyed the blend of citrus/woodsy flavours. It only weakened when I reached the sixth steep. Less of the charming flavours remained, and more smoky/roasted flavours appeared.

Overall I thought Teavivre’s Nonpareil Yunnan Dian Hong Ancient Wild Tree tea brought out some interesting flavours I didn’t expect to encounter. The quality of the tea is present in the resteepings and the good balance of flavours. For tea preferences, I would recommend this to those that may usually find Yunnan black tea boring or average. But also to those that already enjoy black tea from the region, because it brings interesting flavours with a great tea base that you already have learned to love.

Short steeping as suggested by Teavivre’s website: rinse, 15s, 25s, 35s, 50s, 80s, 130s, 210s

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 6 g 3 OZ / 85 ML

Login or sign up to leave a comment.