Tasting Notes: Yellow Goddess of Mercy Oolong Tea

June 30, 2019

Background Yellow Goddess of Mercy, also simply known as 105, is a relatively new oolong tea from Mount Wuyi in China’s Fujian Province. It was officially introduced in 2003 after 20 years of hybrid experimentation. A creation of the Fujian Tea Research Institute, it is a cross of the famous Iron Goddess of Mercy (Tie Guan Yin) and the not-so-famous Yellow Dawn (Huang

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Jaq James

Jaq is an Australian who became a Chinese tea enthusiast after moving to Mount Wuyi, Fujian, in 2016. She was kindly taken under the wings of several lecturers of Wuyi University’s School of Tea Science for private tutorage. She has since travelled to different tea-producing provinces across China to learn more about Chinese tea culture. In 2018 she published a novella, called The Found One, about Mount Wuyi’s tea culture. She hopes to introduce many fellow Australians to the benefits of drinking fine teas through The Artisan Tea Hut.

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3 Comments

Bill Ellis
on July 4, 2019 at 8:33 am •Reply

Jaq:
It might be useful to American readers to state that “red tea” is the translation from Chinese for what we call “black tea”. Of course, black tea or dark tea mean Hei Cha or Puer when translated back for Chinese tea-lovers.
Bill
- Jaq James
  on July 7, 2019 at 11:56 pm •Reply
  
  Hi Bill. Thanks for your comment. I’ve made the clarification.
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on April 14, 2020 at 7:07 am •Reply

Yancha is a perfect example of the diversity of the oolong category. Higher oxidation and a charcoal roast give the tea a deeper, darker taste than what you might expect. They can still offer surprising floral notes and great complexity underneath all of that.