Yellow Tea - a legitimate category of tea or is it just "off" green tea?

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[@daangroeneveld5308]

I'm just drinking Yellow Tea Huang Xiao for the first time in my life, and it tastes to me like a category somewhere between Oolong and Green. Does this make sense, having in mind the extra oxidation steps, where Oolong also takes longer oxidation, or am I talking nonsense here? Also it has a quite smokey taste of it's own, or maybe I used too hot water... What would you advice for temperature and steeping time for Huang Xiao?

[@teaangle]

Makes complete sense. That extra wrapping/steaming step when producing Yellow Tea may have a similar effect to a partial oxidation, which is why you're getting certain notes similar to an Oolong tea. In terms of brewing temperatures, I'd go something similar to what you'd brew green tea - so try around 80 - 85ºC and see how you go

[@teaformeplease]

The only yellow teas that I've had that tasted dramatically different from green tea were from Yunnan

[@teaangle]

Yellow tea from Yunnan sounds interesting. Would love to see how it differs from (or are similar to) Yunnan green teas and Raw Pu'erh

[@petermartinka9274]

I think you are right. If the producers of yellow tea did not sell their tea under the name "yellow", but gave it a standard name, for example green dragon huhu :), then no one would look for anything yellow in it. On the other hand, on the market, tea is already sold under the label yellow, so I would leave it as it is, with the fact that if the given tea did not taste really exceptional, then I would say: this is not yellow tea! There used to be a commercial like this, the guy took a drink of whiskey and said, This ain't Jim Beam! Something like this.

[@teaangle]

Yeah there's no turning back on this and Yellow tea is going to officially remain as a 6th category of tea. Gotta hand it to the originators though - they did try something different, something new (at the time), and it gives producers another lever to play with when producing great and interesting tea

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[@johnsmith-ch7fg]

This seems a bit of an acedemic debate; there is an additional process that seperates the two - whether it's a catagory or sub catagory isn't very important IMO esp when the tea catagories fail pretty regularly; Darjeelings esp. 1st flush aren't black and you will also see oolongs darker than blacks

[@teaangle]

It's purely an academic debate and topic completely up in the air for discussion. There is an additional process for yellow teas and yes, at times it does seem to make a difference, but then there are some yellow teas that taste no different than a green tea. Then again, that may just be a problem with the producer and perhaps it does take additional skills and expertise in order to make true yellow teas. As I said in the video, I'm more than willing to eat my words and be proven completely wrong :)