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“My second yellow tea, Tazo Jun Shan Yin Zhen has a much more uniform leaf form—very similar to silver tips, except more yellow—than the Teavana Yellow Tea I tried yesterday. The shimmering leaves...” Read full tasting note
Chairman Mao’s favorite, this yellow tea produced in Yue Yang on Junshan Island has become very famous. Only newly plucked buds harvested before the Qingming festival are carefully wrapped and steam-fired over three days, yielding a very limited production of a precious tea with pale-yellow liquor and a lightly floral, creamy note.
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My second yellow tea, Tazo Jun Shan Yin Zhen has a much more uniform leaf form—very similar to silver tips, except more yellow—than the Teavana Yellow Tea I tried yesterday. The shimmering leaves are covered with tiny hairs.
The flavor of the similarly pale peach-colored liquor is very similar. The aroma, too, reminds me of the Coors Beer Company boiling barley emanations. Maybe I don’t understand what tea masters mean by “floral”, but to me this tea does not really offer any identifiably “floral” notes. I find it closer to cooked vegetables, but with a smooth finish.
Anyway, I like it, and am happy to have tried Chairman Mao’s favorite tea!
(Blazing New Rating #54)
Flavors: Vegetables
I also really like Jun Shan Yin Zhen from Tealux, it’s very sweet. Not floral either, just sweet, creamy and slightly vegetal. Yum.
Mandala also has a yellow tea which is nice.
I have yet to try a yellow tea. On to the mental list it goes!