Golden Tippy Yunnan

Tea type
Black Tea
Ingredients
Yunnan Black Tea
Flavors
Earth, Malt, Smoke, Wood
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Bulk, Loose Leaf
Caffeine
High
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Average preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 3 min, 30 sec 12 oz / 355 ml

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Aroma: Rosewood overtone.
Palate: Sweet, somewhat spicy with a low-tannic acidity.

This limited-edition blend is made up exclusively of the most highly prized Yunnan, sweet and slightly spicy with low acidity.

Our blenders love these Golden Tippy Yunnans, and even use them as a primary component in our hand-smoked teas (such as the BC Forestea), which are blended for two-and three-star Michelin chefs worldwide for culinary application.

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Thank you to Nicole for this sample! Once again, apparently I am easy to please, because I really like this tea. The flavors are mild, but it is malty and earthy…though less earthy than other Yunnan teas I have tried. I steeped the leaves for 4 minutes the first time, and actually had to run out and left the leaves steeping for 15 minutes the second time. A light but enjoyable tea was produced both times, so it does not seem like you have to worry about oversteeping with this one!

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 0 sec

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Thanks to Nicole for this sample.
I drank this one this morning while fixing breakfast. It was a pleasing first cup of the day.

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Another Yunnan from (who else?) Nicole. The leaves definitely have a lot of gold in them, mine are almost all golden. So that’s a good sign! :) I can’t comment on the dry scent because mine kind of smell like Maple Moose Chai, hah! Which is my fault, not Nicole’s. I did my usual Yunnan method – 3 minutes at 200 degrees.

Aw, man… The aroma is very earthy and woody with smoke undertones. Sad face. Another forest floor Yunnan! The taste is basically the same as the smell – earth, wood, and smoke with some malt. I guess leaf color isn’t everything! Kind of disappointed by this one. :(

Flavors: Earth, Malt, Smoke, Wood

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 3 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML

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While this is woody and spicy and without bitterness, it is an overall disappointing cup. I can get Yunnans I like much better, with much more depth of flavor, for less or equal price from other companies. It’s not awful enough to not drink but I can tell it will be a long time before this gets to a sipdown.

First cup was at work. Filtered water, probably around 190F and for 3 minutes, then 5 minutes. Second cup was here at home with unfiltered water just off boiling for 3 minutes, then 5 minutes. I’ll keep trying with some different parameters, but for now there just isn’t much there there to this tea and it won’t be the first or even fourth thing I reach for when steeping a cup.

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 3 min, 30 sec 2 tsp 16 OZ / 473 ML
boychik

Maybe gongfu is in order

Nicole

I think I’ll try that method this weekend.

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