Casting about for teas to drink last night, I ran across a small amount of this 2022 Meng Ding Huang Ya Yellow tea from Rivers and Lakes Tea. After yesterday's intense puerh experience, seemed like a nice change of pace.

Yellow teas are typically bud only pick, similar to early spring green tea. The difference is in production, where green teas are dried immediately after kill green, yellow teas are allowed to oxidize a bit in enclosed bags before being dried. They have a richer mellower flavor than similar green teas.

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Enjoying some bud only Sichuan Meng Ding Huang Ya yellow tea from Rivers and Lakes tea.

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Misty foggy morning, giving green tea a break and finishing off the Taiwanese yellow tea from the Hoyum Tea blind tasting.

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Going through my tea boxes I found a small packet of Meng Ding Huang Ya, aka Misty Peak Yellow Tips, from Rivers and Lakes Tea. With all the talk of yellow tea recently, thought it would be good to review. As you can see, the pick standard and finishing shape is quite different from the Taiwanese yellow I tried a few weeks ago. Similar flavor/scent to the nutty chestnut-like character of dragonwell, but with touch more sweetness.

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When I first heared about existence of a yellow tea or HuangCha which is mostly not present in West, I was excited about this novelty.

This is a third tea of this category to me and I'm coming to the idea this category isn't interesting to me.

"Emperor Gold" - tippy #HuangCha from Huoshan County, Anhui [Spring '22, CTL] via craftedleaf-tea.com. It's a yellow tea by processing mostly, as it could not be named so formally (origin and cultivar are different).

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Was busy today but made three infusions of a #HuangCha or yellow tea during the interview time.

This is a "Diamond peak" or JunShan silver needle, Hunanese tea that isn't fully "true yellow" (as it should be from Junshan island) [Spring '21, ML]. One of only two yellows at MeiLeaf (and only worth tasting, according to me).

It's already old and lost some of the original potency, so quite muted taste of stable green tea with mild character. Withstand long brews, though.