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Classic Bai Lin Gong Fu "Golden Monkey" Black Tea of Fuding

Original price $6.75 - Original price $88.00
Original price
$6.75
$6.75 - $88.00
Current price $6.75

Bai Lin Gong Fu (aka Golden Monkey) Black Tea is made from Fuding Da Bai Hao "White Pekoe" varietal tea leaves.  Our Premium grade is a one leaf to 1 bud semi-tippy grade.  The tea leaves are picked in sets with 1 leaf and 1 bud.  The processing allows for a golden-orange furry tip complemented by a dark leaf.

The brewed tea is sweet, viscous, fruity and floral.  Very smooth drinking black tea with a little bit of bite, but not too much.  Some people might prefer this to our pure tips Imperial Grade.

This tea is often referred to as "Golden Monkey" Black tea by western vendors.

Early-April Harvest

Varietal: Fuding Da Bai Hao (White Pekoe)

Elevation: 600-700 Meters

Bai Lin Gongfu black tea is produced in the Bai Lin and Hulin areas of Taimu Mountain in Fuding City (Fujian). Taimu Mountain is located in the north of East Fujian, adjacent to Zhejiang, and has a higher terrain. The mountains are emerald and the rocky ravines compete with each other. Tea trees are often planted among cliff forests. The tea tree has deep roots and luxuriant leaves, and its buds are white and crystal clear. In the 1850s. Fujian and Guangxi tea merchants operate and process Gongfu tea in Fuding, collect Bailin, Cuijiao, Waoxi, Huanggang, Hulin, and Pingyang, Taishun in Zhejiang Province and other places of black tea. Born from this. At the beginning of the 20th century, Fuding "Hemaozhi" tea brand gave full play to the characteristics of Fuding Da Bai (White Pekoe) tea. It selects fine buds and leaves to make Gongfu tea.

Overall rating: 4.826923 / 5 from 52 reviews.

AI Generated Review Summary

This Classic Bai Lin Gong Fu 'Golden Monkey' Black Tea from Fuding offers a rich, malty taste with hints of chocolate. Customers appreciate its excellent quality and value for the price.

Summary topics

  • Taste: 31%
  • Quality: 16%

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Review highlights

  • "Really lovely body, with great, deep earthy flavors."Brent C.
  • "Full flavor and wonderful mouth feel."Daryl D.
  • "Great tasting tea which is suitable for 2/3 infusions."Andrew F.

Reviews

Typical taste

"Compared to the other three YN sourcing black teas I have tasted so far, I find this one the most "normal tasting". It has a thick texture and smells sweet, with wood and some dark notes. Maybe hints of chocolate and caramel. It has a slight bite to it but I didn't notice any astringency. Interesting, I just noticed that this tea has the word "classic" in it. Yeah I agree 👍"

Shiba (4/5)

Rich and Satisfying

"After enjoying millions of cups of tea over the years, this is still the classic that I love to wake up with."

Matteus F. (5/5)

"Everything arrived perfectly secure, even the ceramic cups were intact. I also recieved a free bonus bag of tea. Thank you to Trevor Cornell from the customer service team for handling any issues with my package."

Damon (5/5)

Beautiful and smooth

"Amazing, one of my favorite everyday black teas. Nothing too fancy, just beautiful smooth caramelly flavor :)"

Nathan S. (5/5)

Solid Everyday Tea

"This is a very good everyday black tea. Good notes of caramel, low astringency, very nice."

Eric S. (5/5)

Will be a returning customer

"Great tea, fast shipping. Thank you"

Natalia P. (5/5)

suitable for everyone🌿🐲

"I bought this tea for my friend, since he is still green in the tea theme, I wanted to take something simpler as a start, something that would suit everyone's taste expectations, and this tea was just perfect for such a scenario) I don't know about others, but we were even able to feel a bit of a pumpkin flavor, which is very interesting and unusual, considering that I am used to more expensive and more authentic teas - even I really liked this tea)❤️‍🔥"

Danylo O. (5/5)

Dark honey and black pepper

"No malt here but a sweet, dark honey note (like a local black locust honey I buy). Silky mouth and a subtle blackpepper note that stays with you. Unique and enjoyable."

Patrick H. (5/5)

Wonderful Black

"I love black teas and this one’s wonderful. Yunnan Sourcing teas are fresh and super high quality. I’ll keep this one on the shelf."

John T. (5/5)

spot on description

"great for the price, honestly the description says everything you need to know. it gets a little bitter / astringent around the third steep onward but not in a bad way, it pairs well with the sweetness and fruity notes. surprisingly viscous which gives it a good mouth feel."

J. A. (5/5)

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