Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Yellow
Where to Buy: Mark T. Wendell
Product Description:
This rare yellow tea from China’s Anhui province is comprised of beautiful hand-crafted leaves and downy silver buds. This tea is notable for its rich, full and smooth tasting floral infusion. When brewed, our Yellow Sprouting produces a naturally sweet and refreshingly clean tasting cup of tea.
Taster’s Review:
This Yellow tea is one of the newest additions to the Mark T. Wendell collection of teas. And you know I’m excited about it; yellow Tea is my favorite!
There is just something about yellow tea that no other tea type can seem to duplicate. It has similarities of white tea, green tea and Oolong tea, but, it isn’t quite like any of them … if that makes sense. It has some of the delicate qualities of a white tea (and sometimes a green tea, depending upon the green), it has some of the light vegetative qualities of some green teas, and then it has a similar mouthfeel and smoothness of an Oolong.
This Huo Shan tastes incredibly fresh, and the sprouting buds are tiny. Very young leaves. After infusing, I ate a few of the leaves, and they are very tender to the tooth, and so sweet and gentle tasting.
The light colored liquor is sweet and possesses a grassy taste. It is sweet and refreshing. The mouthfeel is very soft and silky. And it is absolutely incredible.
If you haven’t yet tried yellow tea, you really should. And this Huo Shan Yellow Sprouting Tea is a good place to start!
Huo Shan China Yellow Buds from Upton Tea Imports
Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Yellow
Where to Buy: Upton Tea Imports
Product Description:
The attractive leaves consist of tender buds and fine leaf sets. The cup is full-flavored, with a delightfully refreshing character. The aroma has a light, peppery note, which translates to a wonderful mouth feel. This was the best yellow tea we cupped in 2009, and it is highly recommended.
Taster’s Review:
I adore yellow tea. It is probably my favorite type of tea, but it is something that I don’t indulge in very often. It is more rare than other types of tea, and due to that rarity it’s a bit more expensive.
But it is not really the expense of the yellow tea that prohibits me from indulging in the yellow tea very often. It is because I am of the belief that if I were to enjoy it on a daily basis, yellow tea would lose some of it’s “special-ness.” Therefore, I have chosen to make yellow tea a bit of a ceremony for me – I even purchased a Yixing clay mug just for my yellow teas!
This Huo Shan is a remarkable yellow tea. It has a sweet, complex flavor. Notes of flower can be experienced in the aroma and in the taste. There is also a light, somewhat sharp spice note that approaches at about mid-sip that adds to the intrigue of the cup.
Nutty notes are introduced throughout the sip. A stronger floral note comes through in the finish that is reminiscent of honeysuckle. That honeysuckle taste lingers through to the aftertaste.
A truly delicious yellow tea – a very special tea, indeed!