Yorkshire Gold Tea

Tea type
Black Tea
Ingredients
Black Tea
Flavors
Bread, Citrus, Malty, Vegetal, Malt, Bitter, Caramel, Earth, Nutty, Salty, Vanilla
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Loose Leaf, Tea Bag
Caffeine
High
Certification
Not available
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Average preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 0 sec 3 g 11 oz / 335 ml

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  • “Well I was going to brew something else, but the man wanted to have a cup of tea with me and he said “none of that fancy stuff. I just want that orange pekoe or whatever it’s called. You, know,...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Snow. Again. It would be beautiful if it were December; now, it’s just an annoyance. And I do have to go out in it soon, so something with clout is needed. Love this stuff. A little milk helps it...” Read full tasting note
  • “Hmmm, is this what you sent me Azzrian?? Anyhow, tried a bag of this tonight. Wasn’t a big fan. It tasted like black tea from my memory, i.e. the not very good stuff. I ended up dunking my steeping...” Read full tasting note
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  • “I cannot remember the last time I had this one. Tagless bagged version. Over 3g in each bag. I do recall this used to make a very stout cup. I steeped for 3 minutes, and added a bit of sweetener to...” Read full tasting note

From Taylors of Harrogate

By Appointment to HRH The Prince of Wales
Rainforest Alliance Certified (Minimum 50% Certified Tea)
Part of the Ethical Tea Partnership

Hooray for the teapot
If you enjoy your tea made properly in a teapot, you’ll love the taste of Yorkshire Gold. When we set out to make this blend, we wanted to make the best tasting tea on the shelf. Inside this bag is tea from ten of the best tea gardens and estates in the world – malty Assams for richness and strength, high-grown Kenyan for body and balance, and top-class Rwandan tea for exceptional brightness and a lovely golden hue. If you love your tea, this is the blend for you.

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72 Tasting Notes

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8 tasting notes

I have guests who love this, and I bought it on a recommendation, but I won’t be repeating it. I love a strong cup of tea, but this is just bitter in the extreme. It looked like a bag full of leavings (I’ve yet to see the full leaf version I’ve heard about). It brews in a snap, I’ll give it that, but as has already been noted, it goes from full to bitter far too quickly. Too much up front tannin, strips my mouth, even with milk. I’ve tried lower water temperatures, filtered water, etc… but I just can’t make a cup that achieves the aura this tea seems to possess.

Preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 2 min, 0 sec

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75
2 tasting notes

Finest cup in England. Highly recommended.

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75
3 tasting notes

This is my everyday tea that I love. It has a nice, strong, black tea flavour with darker hints. Perfect for a tea break and with a bit of milk. Yorkshire gold is a perfect everyday cuppa.

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87 tasting notes

Too harsh, and the taste is pretty muddled. The real use for this tea is just to steep a huge Thermos-ful and add milk and lots of sugar (amazing builders’ tea, voilà!) The caffeine kick is admirable. Four cups of this put my heart-rate up alarmingly one night. I didn’t get to sleep for hours.

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40 tasting notes

I arrived at my girlfriend’s a couple of days ago, only to discover, to my horror, that she’d just run out of decent quality black tea. There’s plenty of excellent green tea to be had, but I do need a cup or two of black per day. So we’ve been drinking this muck since.

It’s absolutely filthy stuff. If brewed extremely briefly, it is possible to get it down. Brewed for more than a few seconds and it’s tannin hell.

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168 tasting notes

I usually brew this hot, and it tastes really good, especially with a little oat milk. Just a really good black tea. But this time, I cold brewed it overnight, three tagless bags in a pitcher. And it’s really different brewed that way! It’s got a strong vegetal note that reminds me of green tea. I can also pick out a malty note, not as strong as when I hot brew it, and some light bread and citrus notes. So, delicious either way! I’m told cold-brewing black tea leads to a lot less caffeine, but I don’t care either way on that either.

Flavors: Bread, Citrus, Malty, Vegetal

Preparation
Iced 8 min or more

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1299 tasting notes

The book I was reading last night has a character who just moved to The States from England and she was drinking Yorkshire tea which made me instantly want a cup. So this morning I decided to make a cup of Yorkshire Gold. I’ve never tried just the plain Yorkshire Teabags though. I added a bit of soymilk to the cup and it paired perfectly. This really hit the spot today it’s such a classic tea and was delicious. It’s funny how you forget how good a breakfast tea can be. I don’t reach for this one nearly as much as I should. Into the tea focus pile, it goes!

Preparation
Boiling 5 min, 0 sec 8 OZ / 236 ML
Mastress Alita

This is my favorite bagged breakfast tea!

gmathis

I remember remarking once that I liked the plain old Yorkshire variety better than the Yorkshire Gold, though for the life of me, I can’t remember why. A side-by-side would be fun.

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836 tasting notes

Faint aroma of green tea from the dry leaf. Black tea blend aroma in the brewed tea.

Good blend of black tea. The flavour is a bit weak but with a longer infusion, I would be concerned that the bitter note becomes more pronounced. This brew would benefit with some milk added and the package in which it came recommends this.

Holds up well with a splash of milk (semi-skimmed). The bitter note is balanced out with the creaminess of the milk and the tea could probably stand for a longer infusion.

Flavors: Bitter

Preparation
190 °F / 87 °C 2 min, 0 sec

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67 tasting notes

I had a 20% coupon from a grocery vendor, and got free shipping at a certain point, so I used it for more tea! Wanting something convenient to keep in my desk drawer, I ordered a big ol’ box of these Yorkshire Gold teabags, knowing the worst case scenario would give me something for iced tea.

Not the worst case, at all! I have actually enjoyed many morning cups so far. Nothing fancy, just a brisk, malty blend that brews a deep copper cup of flavor. Perfect for the morning, but I’ve enjoyed several cups after dinner, too.

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 5 min, 0 sec

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5 tasting notes

A good strong British tea. A staple for me.

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