I recently tried a Dashu Dianhong from Mei Leaf in London - their name for this tea is Honeycomb Black - and it's so good. Thank you for sharing this story
Wow, thank you for this video! Usually I drink green tea from China but today I had a well made cup of Yünnan black tea. Exactly the characteristics you described so well. It is so delightful and refreshing. That unique flavor especially hits if Yünnan black tea is not your daily choice of tea. The historical aspects were completely new to me, as well as old, big tea trees in Yunnan.
I learned a lot from your 滇红 story, thank you!! I've lived in China for 16 years and drink tea several times a day. From my understanding 滇红 has many different varieties and unique flavor profiles. Several years ago I was given 特级中国红, which apparently was the same tea given as a gift from 邓小平 to Queen Elizabeth as they discussed the return of HK. Excellent tea!! Thanks again for your story...
Thank you. Yes there would be a whole lot of different styles of Dianhong because Yunnan is such a vast province and trees from different regions would produce teas with different flavour profiles. Also as mentioned, as Dianhong simply means Yunnan Black Tea, it seems a really broad term that groups all these different black teas that just happen to be from the same, vast province
Great video, thanks for sharing the history. Dianhong has got to be up there in my favorites. We usually finish a tea session on an old tree red. I always thought that the uniqueness of dianhong is mainly to do with the Yunnan soil which is different to Fujian. Would you agree? Or perhaps it has to do with different processing methods Either way love my dianhong 😃
Not just the soil but the tea trees from Yunnan are a different varietal to the tea plants from other regions like Fujian, so that would play a big part on what makes Dianhong (and Pu'erh as well) unique. Processing methods I think are a little different as well as they needed to be adapted to suit the varietals found in Yunnan. This would also play a part as well.
Great stuff 🫡 dian hong is my go to morning tea ☕️ I prefer the sweet / savoury complexity and depth to other hong chas such as wuyi tong mus in the morning ❤
interesting story, I am glad to see more tea content on RUclips.
Glad you enjoy it! More to come
Thank you for the history insight! You should do Taiwanese Do Fang Mei Wren. One of my favorite black teas I treasure.
At the moment, our focus is mainly on teas from mainland China but who knows, we may end up exploring Taiwanese teas soon as well
I recently tried a Dashu Dianhong from Mei Leaf in London - their name for this tea is Honeycomb Black - and it's so good. Thank you for sharing this
story
Nice. Thanks for watching 🙏
Wow, thank you for this video! Usually I drink green tea from China but today I had a well made cup of Yünnan black tea. Exactly the characteristics you described so well. It is so delightful and refreshing. That unique flavor especially hits if Yünnan black tea is not your daily choice of tea. The historical aspects were completely new to me, as well as old, big tea trees in Yunnan.
Thank you and we're glad you enjoyed the video 😊 There are so many different teas to discover out there
I learned a lot from your 滇红 story, thank you!! I've lived in China for 16 years and drink tea several times a day. From my understanding 滇红 has many different varieties and unique flavor profiles. Several years ago I was given 特级中国红, which apparently was the same tea given as a gift from 邓小平 to Queen Elizabeth as they discussed the return of HK. Excellent tea!! Thanks again for your story...
Thank you. Yes there would be a whole lot of different styles of Dianhong because Yunnan is such a vast province and trees from different regions would produce teas with different flavour profiles. Also as mentioned, as Dianhong simply means Yunnan Black Tea, it seems a really broad term that groups all these different black teas that just happen to be from the same, vast province
Wonderful content love from Philadelphia!!!! I love Dianhong 😋
Dianhongs are great aren't they? It's the tea that got me hooked and started my journey down this deep rabbit hole
@@teaangle I love that expression! Happy tasting my friend! 😎
Awesome video! I look forward to trying your Gushu Yunnan Red tea! Much love from Philadelphia!
Thanks for watching 🙏
Dianhong has got to be one of my favourites, I make sure to have some every few days if not every day.
Dianhong's are also fairly easy to brew and hard to mess up, which make them great daily drinkers
Great video, thanks for sharing the history.
Dianhong has got to be up there in my favorites. We usually finish a tea session on an old tree red.
I always thought that the uniqueness of dianhong is mainly to do with the Yunnan soil which is different to Fujian.
Would you agree? Or perhaps it has to do with different processing methods
Either way love my dianhong 😃
Not just the soil but the tea trees from Yunnan are a different varietal to the tea plants from other regions like Fujian, so that would play a big part on what makes Dianhong (and Pu'erh as well) unique. Processing methods I think are a little different as well as they needed to be adapted to suit the varietals found in Yunnan. This would also play a part as well.
Great stuff 🫡 dian hong is my go to morning tea ☕️ I prefer the sweet / savoury complexity and depth to other hong chas such as wuyi tong mus in the morning ❤
Yeah, it's one of my favourites as well. Sometimes when I'm not sure which hong cha to go for, a lot of times I default to a Dian Hong
I'm learning alot from watching these videos Awesome.
Glad to hear it!
Do ya still sell tea?
Indeed we do. Check out www.teaangle.com
Thanks for sharing. My relatives that live in Yunnan have never even drank dianhong. They only drink pu'er lol. Time for me to educate them.
Indeed you should :p