Award Winning Yun Nan Dian Hong Black Tea – Golden Tip

Tea type
Black Tea
Ingredients
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Flavors
Bread, Creamy, Honey, Malt, Molasses, Raisins, Smooth, Sweet Potatoes, Yams, Floral, Fruity, Stonefruit, Astringent, Caramel, Cocoa, Earth, Wood, Brown Sugar, Strawberry, Sweet, Bitter, Apricot, Dust, Flowers, Peach, Chocolate, Nuts, Nutty, White Chocolate, Dark Chocolate, Berries, Citrus Fruits, Smoke, Carrot, Citrus, Dark Wood, Cherry, Coconut, Overripe Cherries, Bergamot, Butter, Citrus Zest, Burnt Sugar, Grain, Toast, Leather, Loam
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Caffeine
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Edit tea info Last updated by TeaVivre
Average preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 2 min, 45 sec 5 g 39 oz / 1141 ml

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Origin: Fengqing, Yunnan, China

Ingredients: orange pekoe colored buds

Taste: A rich, complex but smooth and fresh taste

Brew: 1-2 teaspoons for 8oz of water. Brew at 185 ºF (85 ºC) for 2 to 3 minutes (exact time depends on your taste – a longer time will give the tea a stronger taste and color)

Health Benefits: A good source of antioxidants and so will help reduce the risk of cancers and lessen the affects of aging. Black teas such as our Dian Hong also are considered to help prevent tooth decay and help lower your cholesterol levels.

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694 tasting notes

I received a generous sample of this from boychik. Thank you!

This was my second time with this tea and the words to describe it still escape me. I enjoy this tea, but it is not one that I crave. It has a quality about it that I just can’t describe. It is sweet, but more ice tea sweet than, potato/bread sweet. I am not sure if that makes sense at all. I guess to try another angle it is a lighter bodied tea that has more hints of honey and hay than bread and sweet potatoes. I have enough for one more session and I hope to be able to describe what I am tasting a little better next time.

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184 tasting notes

I currently LOVE this tea. As I drink it, there is a free “mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm….” with every sip. Smooth…. Earthy, yammy, chocolatey, raisiny, malty, grainy, stonefruity without any astringency at all. My current favorite accoutrement for this tea. Nilla Wafers. Happy me.

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 0 sec 2 tsp 16 OZ / 473 ML
mj

Mine has made it to Chicago…can’t wait to try it!

Cameron B.

This tea is popping up on my feed daily! I’m glad it’s been getting so much love, considering it’s delicious. :)

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16 tasting notes

This tea was quite a journey for me. I took me several steeps to get it right, so to speak. I experimented with western, gaiwan, amount of tea, temperature, steep time. I almost gave up on it, but given so many high ratings, I knew I was doing something wrong.

Long story short, I finally got it to the point of perfection for me. What I found was gaiwan style, about 4 grams in a 100ml cup. First infusions are on the cooler side, like 180-185. Then I get hotter with every 5. I’ve gotten a solid 15 out of this tea no problem.

The tea itself is just gorgeous. The leaves (buds really) have a spring to them. They’re not brittle at all. Once wet, they release a beautiful scent of yams or sweet potato.

The liquor is sweet, reddish/black, and is just delicious. The leaves keep giving. My wife prefers to drink a mug of tea, so I’ll give her the first 4 or 5 infusions, longer time, into a single mug. And then I’ll continue to drink shorter 2-3 oz cups through out the day. Just a high quality, forever giving tea.

Flavors: Chocolate, Honey, Malt, Smoke, Sweet Potatoes

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 0 min, 45 sec 4 g 3 OZ / 100 ML
SimpliciTEA

Your persistence in searching for the best way to brew each tea inspires me to do the same!

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652 tasting notes

Yummmm.
This was today’s breakfast tea.

Malty and bready and so juicy and flavorful!

Similar to the Golden Monkey but not quite as delicious.

I know I keep talking about Golden Monkey. Don’t worry, I will buy some eventually! Then I won’t talk about it as much!

It’s just the standard up to which I will hold all other teas with the word “golden” in their title :)

mj

I just bought some Golden Monkey from the northern lights tea company. I can’t wait to try it!

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290 tasting notes

Thank you to Teavivre for this sample.

It does not take much guessing to realise that this is a Yunnan tea. It immediately reminds me of the Fengqing Dragon Pearl and Golden Monkey teas. The dry twisty leaves are a lovely mix of dark chocolate brown and gold. They give off a malty, chocolate aroma when dry. Upon steeping the aroma changes to floral, cocoa and honey aromas. The tea itself is sweet with caramel and honey notes, and the chocolate carries through from the liquor into the aftertaste. Underneath it all is the promised sweet potato, beefing the flavour up and giving the tea body and a creamy mouthfeel. The aftertaste endures nicely, with the aforementioned chocolate notes and more sweet potato as the tea cools. It has good depth to it and brings on a pleasing though light cooling sensation to the body. Overall, this is yet another great tea from Teavivre. Actually, I don’t think they have sent me a dud tea yet. May that record long continue.

Flavors: Caramel, Chocolate, Cocoa, Flowers, Honey, Sweet Potatoes

Preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 3 min, 0 sec 3 g 8 OZ / 250 ML

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Brewed in the “Chinese Gongfu Way” from the product website. The leather flavor is less intense than the few other black teas I’ve had from Teavivre, but it was still the dominant flavor for me, and not something I am looking for in a tea.

Flavors: Caramel, Leather

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 0 min, 30 sec 5 g 3 OZ / 88 ML

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Lately, I’ve found that when fresh my Yunnan teas have been one of my most diversely flavoured tea types. They pretty well all have cocoa, honey and grainy/malt note which are the last notes to dissipate as they age, but diversify with fruity, herbaceous floral, leather, licorice, sweet potato, and mineral notes.

This tea may not have as complex a flavour profile or as thick a mouth feel as some of my others but what it does uyave is rich, pleasant, and comforting. It makes a nice, comforting everyday tea, especially for those who love distinct cocoa notes.

The dry leaves are longer thinner and more tightly wound than most of my current Yunnan’s. There is about 75-80% golden tips with short downy trichomes. The dry leaves smell comfortingly of malt, grain, cocoa, and a hint of alfalfa.

I got 5 steeps using a little over one TSP in 200ml at 90°C (1, 1.2, 1.4, 2 & 3 min)

The initial steeps brewed to a dark almost coffee coloured or dark oak tinged with gold colour. The scent was of malt, honey, cocoa and hay with butter and longan notes mixing in with these notes in later steeps.

Flavour notes appearing were top notes of longan, malt, clover, blended with dissolved cocoa powder, honey( sweetest in the middle steeps), sweet potato, cream, butter, berry, grapish note, alfalfa and minerals.

I found the tea to be only slightly sweet but well balanced. It is neither sour, sweet or overly savoury. It has a moderate density with little to no astringency with a nice kick of caffeine. The cocoa notes deepen as it cools.

Although it is not as complex or distinct as some of my Yunnan’s, it does what it does well and makes a nice cocoa rich everyday tea!

Thanks Angel and TeaVivre for this lovely tea.

looseTman

yyz, What an excellent and highly detailed tasting note!

gmathis

My farm girl background appreciates anybody who knows what alfalfa smells like!

yyz

Although I’ve mostly been a city girl with certain respites in the wilderness. I spent sometime on my great aunts farm and in High School, I taught lessons and worked at a stable that raised hunter jumpers and dressage horses and rehabilitated racehorses and had a specialty with problem broodmares. Very familiar with the scent of alfalfa, from growing it and stacking heavy bails of second cut hay.

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408 tasting notes

Thanks so much to Angel of Teavivre for sending me this lovely sample.

It seems that Yun Nan is a best seller here on Steepster and I at the very first sip I can know precisely why : it is so mellow, so sweet, so good.
I am really impressed especially because main teas with golden tips are not among my favourite for various reasons. This black tea is really different, it acts really like a black tea.
It has absolutely no bitterness. I get lovely notes of sweet patatoes. It’s a rich tea, almost creamy without cream :)
It is so good ! What an excellent tea I am really seduced.

Preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 4 min, 30 sec
TheTeaFairy

Such a lovely tea!

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2238 tasting notes

Sipdown! I love this one…when I place an order with Teavivre next, this will definitely be on my list. It’ll probably be a little while, because I’ve just received my sampler of 2014 spring harvest green teas from them, but no doubt missing it will make it all the more desirable once it does make a return to my cupboard.

It’s deliciously malty, with grain and sweet potato notes…maybe a touch of honey at the very end of the sip. And soooo smooth! I’m on my third cup today, and I’ve loved every mouthful. Gorgeous!

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 0 sec 1 tsp
KittyLovesTea

This is one of my favourite black teas to date, such a beautiful quality and full of flavour. Always nice to see another golden tip fan :)

Ysaurella

agree girls this one is absolutely lovely even for me a non golden tip fan.

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155 tasting notes

MMMMMMM this tea! Apparently my love for golden tips is deep and meaningful. I STILL haven’t gotten around to doing a proper review of Golden Fleece (although the song for it played in my head immediately), possibly because I just can’t find words for it. But this one is delightful. It’s far too early in the morning for me to be awake and normally I would be pouty about being awake at this ridiculous time on a Saturday morning. Instead I’m purring and mmmmm-ing and happily indulging myself in the smooooth, caramely, buttery, malty deliciousness that is this tea. The song that came to me for this one surprises me just a little – because while Smokey Robinson is ALWAYS appropriate – I would have thought this tea would make me hear a baritone. But nope, I hear this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlzY6cWpoMQ&feature=kp

I immediately heard “we’re gonna fly away, glad you’re goin’ my way…”

Flavors: Caramel, Malt, Sweet Potatoes

Marzipan

This made me think of Ally Mcbeal, where the biscuit always heard Barry White.

MzPriss

Special Dark makes me hear Barry White singing Love Serende. I don’t watch much TV – except Sherlock and Justified so I never saw Ally McBeal. A biscuit heard Barry?

Marzipan

There is a character nicknamed that. It’s a great series, I watched it on netflix not long ago.

looseTman

" Instead I’m purring and mmmmm-ing and happily indulging myself in the smooooth, caramely, buttery, malty deliciousness that is this tea."
Definitely, a great way to wake-up!

MzPriss

It’s good tea!

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