Yellow tea

Ten Ren has yellow tea (golden needle) but I haven't tried it and don't know if it's good. Ten Ren has some reputation for good tea that's somewhat overpriced. Toci

Upton's has a Fujian golden needle that I like a lot.

--scott

I don't know about Ten Ren's version, but Golden Needle is generally a Fujian fully-oxidized tea (black or red, depending on whether you're using Western or Chinese terminology.)

I think yellow teas really are harder to find than most other tea genres. Yellow tea manufacture is pretty complicated and hard - some might say impossible - to industrialize.

One yellow tea I really like is the Anhui yellow tea carried by In Pursuit of Tea (standard disclaimer: just a happy customer.)

/Lew

HuoShan Huang Ya or Huo Mountain Yellow Sprout is easy to find on the Internet.

Jim

Let me jump in here and say that the tea to which Lew refers from In Pursuit of Tea delights me. It's fresh and full flavored, full of the character you want. It doesn't hold back. It gently tastes of earth. I hope I'm not betraying a trust to say that Sebastian of IPOT, when he found this tea where it is produced in the old way, was immediately pleased with it, especially since he found the producer fairly hidden among the screaming commercial venturers hawking long jing wannabes. A gem in a dungheap, as it were. (no disclaimer at all, and proud of it, though I am a happy customer)

I should mention that I've never drunk the Ten Ren version Toci mentions, but there is something about Ten Ren that does not invite me in. Michael

Welcome back. I put out feelers in some of my posts but nobody said anything.

Jim