Ancient Tree Golden Needle
Encounter a heart-warming tea container, taking a sip or two of light and elegant tea in the middle of a busy schedule; between touch and vision, clearly comprehend heaven, earth and people of nature and ingenuity.
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- Chinese: yún nán gǔ shù dà jīn zhēn chūn chá
- Translation: Yunnan Ancient Tree Big Golden Needle Spring Tea
- Type: Black Tea
- Cultivar: Large Leaf Species
- Origin: Lincang, Yunnan
- Ingredients: Yunnan big leaves tea
- Harvest Date: 2025/03/25
- Storage Methods: Sealed, Prevent moisture, Vacuum, Alone
- This Ancient Tree Golden Needle tea is known as the dazzling flower among Yunnan black teas, with a honey-flavored, fresh and charming taste. Yunnan Golden Needle black tea from Yunnan province, China; harvested in a remote, hard to access tea garden from wild ancient tea trees at altitudes of over 2000m, with a local heritage of more than 2000 years of tea culture as well as plucking and processing art; certified health and environment-friendly. This is a spectacular plucking of Yunnan, composed entirely of very long golden tips.
- The name of the Ancient Tree Golden Needle comes from its appearance, which is similar to a golden needle. It is made of the big leaf buds or one bud and one leaf of Dianhong tea as raw materials and is carefully made. It is mainly produced in Fengqing, Lincang, Yunnan, where tea trees grow particularly well due to its beautiful scenery.
- Ancient Tree Golden Needle is an exceptional black tea processed entirely by hand in early spring. It hails from the birthplace of tea, Yunnan Province in China, where it is grown at high altitudes. The wild growth of the tea trees in their natural habitat and the gentle and careful plucking. Therefore, our golden needles black tea is 100% healthy and environment-friendly.
- For the highest quality of this tea, only the youngest tea buds, each along with a single, most upper pertaining leave is picked. Besides the wonderful full-bodied and balanced taste, this selection principle is also responsible for the characteristic appearance of the ready processed and dried tea, in which the buds show a bright golden and the pertaining leaves a dark-shaded color, ranging from grey via brown shades to black.
- This Ancient Tree Golden Needle tea is carefully made through innovative technology based on the traditional Gongfu Dianhong tea. It has a straight and upright appearance, all single buds, golden and bright color, oily and eye-catching. After brewing, the soup is orange-yellow and clear, transparent and bright, with a sweet and fragrant aroma, high and far-reaching, sweet and rich taste, full and mellow, and the bottom of the leaves is red and even, regular and orderly.
- The result is a black tea with a full-bodied, round taste that combines a rich spectrum of pronounced aromas, ranging from coconut and honey to cocoa and chocolate notes in perfect harmony. If we say that the taste of this tea, whose secret apart from the skillful processing is also the perfect balance of the ratio between young buds and pertaining leaves.
- The abundance of golden downy buds, which are rich in amino acids, produce a rich and complex chocolate liquor. The delightful dry leaf aroma is woody and lightly floral, with a hint of chocolate. The brew’s deep caramel color hints at its bold aromas of drying tobacco, wildflower honey and blond woods. Its honey-sweet flavor is full-bodied, round and brimming with smooth notes of apple blossoms, apricots, buttery, baked yams and chocolate. The long-lasting aftertaste has exquisite notes of tobacco and bittersweet chocolate.
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Gaiwan Brewing:
First, pour hot water to clean the tea set, gaiwan, and teacup;
Then put 5g of Dianhong Golden Needle Tea into the Gaiwan;
After the water starts to boil, cool down slightly to about 90~95 degrees of water temperature, and then brew (the water temperature should not be too high);
Pour boiling water into the gaiwan, cover the bowl for no more than 5 seconds, soak for the first 1-6 times, without being stuffy, pour out the soup directly, and drink it;
For the 7th to 14th bubbles, the brewing time is 10 to 20 seconds, and the brewing time will increase each time after that (depending on personal taste).
Customer Reviews
This big golden needle is amazing. Full of complex dried fruit aromatics, and with a similarly unique and complicated flavor. Highly recommended!
The tea buds are golden yellow and fluffy, and as soon as they are opened, there is a honey fragrance rushing towards them. The tea leaves are clear and clear, the taste is pure and pure, and the aftertaste is endless. The leaves are complete, full of weight and bright in color.
Tea delicious, fragrant, liked. Even with prolonged insistence does not become bitter and tart, like some red teas, but remains tasty and interesting. I ordered another one at once. I was especially pleased with the quality of the package-at 11 of 10, for the first time I get so well-packed tea-the level is straight for the delivery of goods to the space being calm for the safety of the tea leaf :) I sincerely recommend the seller, thank him and wish him abundance and prosperity. All nice tea :)
This is some of the freshest tea I've ever purchased. It also arrived about 2 week after I bought it - super fast shipping and A+++ quality tea! THANK YOU!
After brewing a cup, the taste is very positive, the color and fragrance are complete, the cord is very good, very complete, and the sweet taste is very charming. After one sip, you can't stop, drinking one cup after another.