Award Winning Yun Nan Dian Hong Black Tea – Golden Tip

Predominant note is chocolate , a little tobacco, a little malt and prune-like sweetness. While that description makes it sound like a rich tea, though, it is fairly light. Smooth and round and delightful to drink with no ‘catches’ to distract from the pleasure. This is a tea I would purchase. Very much enjoyed this sample, thank you, Angel!

Sipdown 2020! 19/365

Absolutely delicious mug of this the other night.Most impressive, considering it was an open packet, for who knows how long. Malt, sweetness, richness… just good.

I’ve been sipping this one often lately – it’s one of the teas I keep in my storage locker at work. Nice, malty, sweet potato-y, not too demanding.

As a bonus, it seems to not care about water temperature too much – the office I’m at has a hot water dispenser but I have no idea what the temperature is. And it resteeps well. Good choice for work!

Yummmm. This is pretty similar to the “Nepal 2nd Flush Golden Tips” from What-Cha that I had earlier this evening. Not that this tastes like a Nepalese tea… more that the Nepalese tea does a surprisingly good job of impersonating a high grade dian hong. :)

Tonight I’m getting sweet potato, malt, honey, bread, and a hint of citrus as it cools. Complex, full-bodied, delicious.

Oh my god, I forgot how good this tea is. In fact, I don’t think I appreciated this the first time I had it as I do right now.

It’s so rich and nuanced, with more flavours than I recall picking up on last time. Cocoa, sweet potatoes, malt, baked bread, flowers and bergamot.

I’m raising my rating and I think I need to restock this when my sample is done.

Just Fabulous

This is a beautiful Yunnan, and a great way to start my morning. There are some hay, malt, and sweet potato notes to start, and there’s a hint of dried fruit in the aftertaste that reminds me of dates—I don’t think I’ve ever tasted that in a tea before, but it’s wonderful. As the tea cools the malt and hay come out more, and I’m finding I like it both cool and hot.

This sample I had from @boychik with a little bit from @Cameron B. thrown in for good measure….well, to get a good measure so I had enough to try it gongfu.

I really liked it western. I really liked it gongfu.

This was good. Very good.

Malty and bready, but very chocolaty and almost sweet. I didn’t get sweet potato from it, but I could see that maybe that was supposed to be there. (I think I got that when I had it Western…I dunno.)

I’m enjoying this.

I’m trying to stretch it out, but I think most of the deliciousness is gone.

This tea is so pretty, lots and lots of golden tips, probably 2:1 or 3:1 ratio. And the smell from the dry leaf, sweet potato, malt, and lots of cocoa. Wet leaf smells like molasses sweet potato and malt.

2 teaspoons, 8oz water, 185F, 2.5,4,4, minute steeps.

The first steep is like someone took some sweet potato fries, drizzled some caramel sauce on, and sprinkled with golden raisins. Like dessert fries or something? Is that a thing? I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a thing. The second steep is still the dessert fries, but maybe a dusting if cocoa powder as well. Faint, but tickling at the edge of my senses every once in a while.

This steep is very similar to the last steeps, similar flavor and disappears way faster than it should. After this mug I went to a little party at a friends house. But I’ll cold steep the leaves and see how that fares for a 4th steep.

Bold black flavour. Floral and fruity with briskness but no astringency.