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Mengding Huangya 蒙顶黄芽 - Yellow Tea

This special yellow tea was long ago introduced as an imperial tribute from Mengding Mountain, located in Ya'an city, Sichuan province, the first tea garden ever created. The tea bushes growing in this area are shrouded throughout the year by cloud and mist, which enhances the freshness of their flavor. It is a famous yet uncommon kind of tea, as yellow tea is the rarest among the 6 tea categories.It is composed only of the youngest hand-picked buds of cultivar Mengshan 蒙山 n.9, fully covered by soft fluff which accounts for their great freshness. To obtain this rarity, these small gems undergo a process of yellowing (Mènhuáng 闷黄):  after being pan-fried, they are wrapped in sheets of paper, where a warm-humid condition gives the tea buds a slight oxidation, making them acquire the typical yellow-green color, and turns the liquor light-gold, giving it a buttery sweetness. After repeating the processes of pan-frying and yellowing for three times, the buds are finally dried by charcoal-fi

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Aggiornato il 08/06/2026