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Yunnan Gold (Dian Hong) Black Tea

Yunnan Gold (Dian Hong) Black Tea

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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.

Origin

  • Brand: Teasenz
  • Year: 2026
  • Season: Spring
  • Origin: Fengqing
  • Leaf grade: natural tea gardens
  • Varietal (cultivar): large leaf Assamica (Da Ye Zhong)
  • Type: black tea

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  • Normal/Western method

    Temperature: 90 °C

    Time: 3 minutes

    Tea/water: 4 grams / 500 ml water

    Tea utensils: Large teapot / mug

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  • Traditional/gongfu method

    Temperature: 90 °C

    Time: 10 seconds

    Tea/water: 5 grams / 100ml water

    Tea utensils: Gaiwan / Yixing teapot

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  • Cold brewing

    Temperature: Store in fridge

    Time: 10 hours

    Tea/water: 8 grams / 1 litre

    Tea utensils: Bottle / Pitcher

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  • tea processing: tea leaves picking

    Picking

    Tea leaves are hand-picked in the morning.

  • tea processing: withering and drying tea on bamboo trays

    Withering

    The leaves are spread on bamboo trays to wither.

  • tea processing: rolling and shaping tea leaves

    Rolling

    Leaves are rolled, breaking down the surface cells and promoting oxidation.

  • tea processing: black tea leaves oxidation

    Oxidation

    Rolled leaves are oxidized in bamboo baskets covered with a cloth.

  • tea processing: tea drying

    Drying

    The oxidized leaves are dried to reduce moisture to a minimum.

  • tea processing: sorting of black tea

    Sorting

    The tea leaves are sorted manually or mechanically.

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  • 4 stars: 6 (26%)
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Björn
Great Hong Cha

This tea is from the spring harvest of 2025 and was grown and harvested in Fengqing.
I brewed the tea at 85 degrees Celsius, starting with a 20-second steeping time.
An incredibly sweet tea with pronounced honey notes and a pleasant maltiness. You can also clearly taste floral notes in the background. A great Hong Cha at a great price.

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Anonymous
Very sweet and floral

Very sweet and floral. It has a pleasant scent that i can not identify.

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Anonymous
Very good aroma and color

Very good aroma, flavour, color and freshness. Just not my personal favorite. But a good standard. YUNNAN gold tea.

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Kees Stolker
Aromatich

Een lekker aromatische thee. Niet bitter ook niet als ie wat langer heeft getrokken. De opgerolde blaadjes vragen wel om een wat groter lepeltje om de thee in de pot te doen.

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Dora
I like making my own black tea mix with this

I like making my own black tea mix using Yunnan Gold, Yingde Black and Jin Jun Mei - it creates a very luxurious mix full of sweet chocolatey notes and a lot of complexity. Great with some warm oat milk in the morning.

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Francesco Castelli
I really LOVED this tea

I really LOVED this tea... and I said LOVED because it's finished. It's my favourite breakfast tea. The smell is AMAZING and the flowery+honey taste is superb.
I'll buy again - but caring about the budget: it is more expensive than other black teas. Maybe I could try ju jun mei due to my preference to this tea.

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Andrea
Great yunnan black tea

This is a very malty, choccolaty woth a hint a fruitness black tea. As usual this golden buds tea are very sensitive to brew temperature but if done right (for me is 90° C water) this is a very enjoyable tea at a very reasonable price. Highly recommended

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Silvio Righini
One of my preferred teas

One of my preferred teas.

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Jean Luc Raynaud
Thé noir subtil

très bontéThé à grande feuille avec un grande subtilité pour un thé noir.

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Anton G.
Golden Standard

This one of those teas which are companions for any tea drinking sessions for me. The best tasting red tea among the dozen I tried so far. This one from Teasenz has a great quality and texture.

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kitty kosters
One of my all time favourites

One of my all time favourites. Full of flavor, rich and soft.

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Jenny
Amazing

This became my and my mum's new favorite tea to drink in the afternoon.

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Liuba
Best black tea for every morning

My favorite black tea for every morning to get energy. I'm happy to find it on this website.

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Anonymous
ottimo gusto esperienza piacevole e

ottimo gusto esperienza piacevole e prolungata

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Denis Alikin
Really good red tea

Really good red tea. Very smooth and soft. Needs just couple of minutes to be prepared.

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Dennis
Lovely Tea

My favorite black tea, tastes similar to the Qi Lan but has a brighter flavor due to the sweet honey and floral notes, i highly recommend this tea.

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Mari
Tasty and easy to drink

This tea is really flavorful without having any bitter or sharp undertones. The flavor and aroma is smooth and I enjoy the hint of honey that comes trough.
This tea is perfect to drink at any time, and would be a great starter-tea to help introduce to someone curious on nicer types of tea.

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BAMO
Perfect and subtile! Surprising elegant black tea

Perfect and subtile! Surprising elegant black tea.

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Milan
Perfect yunnan for multiple gong fu sessions

I loved this tea! The leaves are beautiful and brew wonderfully for at least four infusions gong fu style—probably more. The flavor is rich and smooth with sweet, honey-like notes, a touch of maltiness, and a subtle hint of cocoa. Highly recommend if you enjoy smooth, flavorful black teas with a bit of natural sweetness.

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Ernests

Beautiful taste of caramel sweetness mixed with floral touches. Aftertaste is a bit woody, what I really like. Can stand up to 8-9 steeps!

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Ursula Herzog

very high quality tea. Almost sweet notes in the beginning, before you get the typical hong cha flavor.

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Daniel López

Aroma of honey, brown sugar, spices, musk and flowers. In the mouth it begins with initial notes of spices (cinnamon, ginger), honey, brown sugar, becomes floral with certain touches of sweet dried fruit.

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Denis

Mit Abstand der beste Yunnan Black , den ich je trank.
Tolles komplexe Aroma mit starker Schokoladen- und leichter Beerennote

Our design work is inspired by the artwork “Along the River During the Qingming Festival” by the Zhang Zeduan in the Song Dynasty. Instead of displaying the daily lives of people in the capital of China (as the original artwork), we display the tea making process of farmers through the same bird’s eye perspective.

When examining our packaging design in detail, tea enthusiasts will observe the tea making process, featuring tea farmers picking, drying, rolling, and frying tea leaves. The tea is then tasted in a pavilion and transported by horses along the ‘ancient tea road’.

Together, the traditional Chinese landscape and tea making theme, symbolise heritage, tradition, and respect for hard work of tea farmers.