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This tea was inspired by the Beatles ‘Golden Slumbers’. It is a traditional Yunnan Black Tea grown at high altitudes in the mountains of the Yunnan province of China. The “golden” part of the name refers to the many golden tips of this black tea that steeps a malty, smooth cup with an aroma that is rich, yet slightly sweet and a velvety smooth taste with a slight essence of black pepper. If you like a little milk and sugar with your tea, this black tea can certainly stand up to it, and makes a delightful morning cup. Try steeping this tea multiple times as the flavor evolves with each steeping. You will also find that as your tea cools, you will taste an essence of earthiness that is gentle to the palette.
The Yunnan Province is located in the southwest corner of China, and according to legend it is the birthplace of tea. It also contains a historic tea growing region. This area is also home to the famous Pu-erh teas. There are also a number of green teas grown within this region
Yunnan black tea is also referred to as ‘Dianhong’ tea. ‘Dian is the short name for the Yunnan Province and ‘hong’ refers to the red liquor of the tea once it is brewed. Unlike flavored black tea, this tea benefits from a slightly shorter steeping time. However, you can certainly adjust it as you like, because this tea tends to be very forgiving.
So, sit back with a cup of these golden leaves and watch as it brings you smiles when you rise.
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Seriously, in love. Everything about it is beautiful, soft, subtle, and deep. The taste is sweet, but not the kind of sweet that hits you over the head, the kind of sweet that builds so that you don't realize it is there until the middle of your sip. While drinking it, you can easily envision yourself in old-growth tea forests in Yunnan, seated comfortably on some soft and welcoming moss. Even the caffeine (which is definitely there) comes upon you slowly and softly, which has rapidly made it my go-to tea for the morning since it makes me feel like I am slowly waking to a beautiful rising sun even if 15 minutes before I started sipping it, I was jarred awake by my alarm clock ("After a Golden Slumber" is the PERFECT name for this tea!). This tea is like spending a rainy afternoon with your quiet best friend, the one who speaks using words that start with "W" "V" and "L" sounds in a deep and soothing voice, who smiles and occasionally touches your shoulder lovingly but is mostly silent. Alright, I will stop waxing-on poetically about this tea, I promise, after this one last thing... Drinking this tea, especially first thing in the morning, could easily become so natural, so right, that - to quote Margaret Atwood - this tea could "be the air that inhabits you... that unnoticed and that necessary" (from her poem "Variation on the Word Sleep").
To add something a little more concrete, I do highly recommend following the steeping instructions given in terms of steeping the heaping teaspoon of tea in 6 oz of water, in order to really get the best depth of flavor. If, like me, you have a bunch of big ol' 12 oz mugs, you can re-steep these leaves multiple times so just take the little bit of extra time to steep once in 6oz water, pour it into your mug, then immediately re-steep in another 6oz which you can then add in order to fill up the giant mug. I promise it's worth it.
Final note - if you are having a rough day and need some warmth with a lot of sweetness to combat a world that feels very un-sweet right now, I tried this tea with a dash of Happy Turtle Tea's lemon and lavender infused sugar and it was AMAZING. The lemon adds a really nice harmony to these leaves; I haven't tried a squeeze of regular lemon juice with it yet, but I could see that tasting really good too.
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