Yunnan Gold (Dian Hong) Black Tea

Without doubt the most popular Chinese black tea from Fengqing Yunnan, with an abundance of beautiful golden tips. It offers a soft, savory taste with an intense honey-sweet and flowery aroma.

Unlike regular Chinese black tea, the delicate tea tips are handpicked from wild trees and processed manually to ensure a consistent, high-grade tea with a signature golden appearance. For the experienced tea drinker, Yunnan Gold offers a balanced alternative to other Chinese classics. It lacks the assertive smoke of a Lapsang Souchong and the sharp intensity of a Keemun.

While Yunnan has been the center of pu erh tea production for millennia, its black tea history is relatively modern. The first Dian Hong was successfully processed in Fengqing in 1939. Since then, Yunnan has joined Fujian as one of China’s two most respected regions for high-end black tea production.