Yuan An Lu Yuan
A Hubei yellow tea with an unusually long yellowing period and a light roast, giving it a distinctly toasted character. It is among the rarest teas in the catalogue and is made by only a handful of producers.
Character
Toastier than other yellow teas because of the added roast, and a useful demonstration that the category is not a single style.
- Flavour
- Roasted, Nutty, Sweet
- Aroma
- Toasted
- Mouthfeel
- Medium, Smooth
- Complexity
- Moderate
- Notes
- roasted grain, chestnut, warm hay
- Aftertaste
- Toasty and sweet.
Moderate intensity: noticeable weight or grip, but neither dominates the cup.
Provenance and production
- Origin
- China
- Oxidation
- Unoxidised
- Roast
- Light
- Harvest
- Spring
- Processing
- Kill-green (fixation) → Sealed yellowing (men huang) → Rolling and shaping → Roasting → Drying
Brewing
Western brewing (teapot or mug)
1.5–2.5 g/100 ml · 80–88 °C · 1 authored infusion
Gongfu brewing (gaiwan)
3–4 g/100 ml · 80–88 °C · 4 authored infusions
No caffeine estimate is authored for this tea. TeaHQ does not infer one from its category, because category predicts caffeine poorly — matcha and gyokuro carry more than many black teas.
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Editorially linked
Someone wrote down why these two belong together. The note below is theirs.
- Wenzhou Huang Tang
Two revived yellow teas from Hubei and Zhejiang. Yuan An Lu Yuan adds a light roast, which makes it the outlier in an already small category.
Similar sensory profile
Shares controlled flavour, aroma and mouthfeel descriptors. A looser match — two teas can share descriptors and still taste nothing alike.
- Liu An Gua Pian
Shares 6 descriptors with Yuan An Lu Yuan: roasted, nutty, sweet, medium, smooth and toasted.
- Beigang Mao Jian
Shares 5 descriptors with Yuan An Lu Yuan: sweet, nutty, medium, smooth and toasted.
- Dong Ding
Shares 5 descriptors with Yuan An Lu Yuan: roasted, nutty, sweet, smooth and toasted.
- Hojicha
Shares 5 descriptors with Yuan An Lu Yuan: roasted, nutty, sweet, smooth and toasted.
- Huoshan Huang Da Cha
Shares 5 descriptors with Yuan An Lu Yuan: roasted, nutty, sweet, smooth and toasted.
- Kamairicha
Shares 5 descriptors with Yuan An Lu Yuan: nutty, roasted, medium, smooth and toasted.
- Lu An Gua Pian (Melon Seed)
Shares 5 descriptors with Yuan An Lu Yuan: roasted, nutty, medium, smooth and toasted.