Yunnan Noir

Tea type
Black Tea
Ingredients
Black Tea Leaves
Flavors
Honey, Molasses, Spices, Stonefruit, Malt, Smoke, Smooth, Fruity, Sweet, Wet Earth, Cocoa, Earth, Pepper, Toasted, Dark Chocolate, Metallic, Roast Nuts, Yams, Grain, Wood
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Bulk, Loose Leaf, Tea Bag
Caffeine
High
Certification
Not available
Edit tea info Last updated by JulieWyant
Average preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 15 sec 2 g 10 oz / 290 ml

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  • “So I am in the “happy” position of having the course schedule of dumb. Specifically, on Tuesdays, I currently have class from 9-10 am and then 3-9pm. THREE TO NINE WTF. I may drop one of the...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Sipdown. Infusion number one before I head off to work. (Edit several hours later) So I did like 2.5? teaspoons of this in ~2 cups of boiling water. Didn’t let it steep quite as long this time,...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Tea of the morning (my that seems so long ago) shared with the husband, thanks to Michelle! A decent black tea, not astringent, nothing offensive, held up to three infusions but no shining...” Read full tasting note
  • “Okay, I’m pretty sure I’m in the minority here, but I love Adagio’s new bags. They are cute and I like the feel of them and even the samples are resealable. I don’t know about everyone else, but...” Read full tasting note
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From Adagio Teas

Yunnan Noir is a black tea from the Yunnan province of China, the birthplace of tea itself. Much of the tea in this southern province is a large leaf variety. Grown at 1500 meters above sea level where the mountains are veiled in mist, with clean water and rich soil form ideal growing conditions and contribute to the unique flavor. Our Yunnan Noir is a hand-rolled tea, with leaves tightly curled into a ‘black snail’ shape. The aroma is sweet with hints of honey and spice. Savory and winey on the palate, with smooth, deep fruity astringency, tremendous depth of flavor, cinnamon bark and nutmeg in the finish. A terrifically textured cup of tea.

Film Noir is a genre of movie most associated with the post-WWII era of the 1940s. Frequently centered around crime and detective stories a la The Maltese Falcon’s Sam Spade, they’ve given us the classic gritty detective trope we know and love and influenced everything from film classic Bladerunner to beloved comic Calvin and Hobbes and even Spider-Man, which featured Spider-Man Noir (voiced by Nicholas Cage) in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Similar to the animated superhero flick, we’ve taken a lighter take than the old films with our tea too, focusing on the tea’s color, rather than a tone.

Black Tea | High caffeine | Steep at 212° for 3-5 minutes.

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This is the 3rd black biluochun I have tried now. Its not the best, but its also not the worst.

It still has the flavor I am familiar with, almost bready like (I really need a better word) but this is still a little bit harsher than the Golden Snail I have loved for so many years. There is some astringency which isn’t bad hot, but becomes pronounced as it cools.

Its not bad, but not something I would be willing to switch to over my other option.

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Lovely black tea. Brewed 2 grams tea in 8 oz water, 212F, 3 minutes. Bit of stevia and a slice fresh lemon added. Tea unfurls beautifully while steeping. Multiple steeps easily. Malty, slightly fruity taste with just a hint of spice. Love it!

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 0 sec 2 g 8 OZ / 236 ML

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Large leaf, hand-rolled. Slightly astringent, with flavors throughout the palate. For me, it starts with spice, moves into molasses, honey, and ends with stone fruit, particularly apricot. Lots of fun to drink! On first taste, tea is simple, and the complexity grows on the palate — I prefer complexity up front and throughout the palate.

Flavors: Honey, Molasses, Spices, Stonefruit

Preparation
Boiling 5 min, 0 sec

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Thanks to meowster for the sample of this one! When brewed properly, it tastes nice and malty and really almost like chocolate. Probably one of the best plain black teas I’ve tried!

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12 tasting notes

I tried this at a friend’s house today. Delicious, smooth, and the tiniest bit smokey. This is a tea I would like in my collection someday.

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML

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Mastress Alita’s sipdown challenge – October Tea #8-A Chinese tea

As much as I didn’t want to finish this tea, I figured I would for this prompt.  I do love this one.  It’s rich and long lasting for its age.  I don’t think it was prime parameters for the way I was steeping this away from home – the flavor seemed a bit more muted than usual. But it is always funny how that sipdown steep session is almost always more delicious than usual, making you want to search out the tea and buy it again.  Teas are already impossible to sipdown as it is!   But this is a CLASSIC Chinese tea flavor profile – probably my favorite black tea type.  Thank you again, Meowster!
2022 sipdowns:  103

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Well, I’ve just come back from my yearly vacation to Boise for Anime Oasis! This is one of the few times a year I get to meet up with my best friend Todd who lives in the Bay Area of California, and we had a most harmoneous tea exchange; my last order from 52Teas was a combo order with some things he wanted so I was able to give him his things, and since I don’t have a DAVIDsTEA anywhere in my area and he does, he picked up a few things for me and brought them along. I also was able to clear out a few of my leftover samplers and some of my chamomile-heavy teas on him, as he likes those. My cupboard was doing pretty well before the trip… but then I visited Snake River Tea, and now it’s about where it was before… heheheheh…

Since the convention takes place at a hotel that is right next door to a tea shop, every day it is custom for us to stop in and share a pot of tea! The first day we stepped in to Snake River Tea, the barista saw me and proclaimed, “Hey, you’re the person who bought all that tea last year!” I answered, “I don’t mean to add to your retail PTSD, but I plan to buy more this year! Don’t worry though, it won’t be as bad as last year, my cupboard is getting a bit out of hand at home!” I did keep my word though, and restrained myself to only ten teas this year, not including the pots I sampled in-shop. And the barista was so nice, he even added a free pu-erh stuffed tangerine because I’m such a good customer.

So this pot was from my first visit, and I ordered the Yunnan Noir, which I am fairly certain is sourced from Adagio. I’ve been on a Chinese black kick, and I needed a lot of caffeine for the first day of the convention! I really enjoyed the tea; it was a hardy black, reminding me of the sort of tea suitable for breakfast time (even though I was having it as a late afternoon pick-up!), but it was very smooth with no bitterness or astringency (which is part of the reason why I tend to find I prefer Chinese blacks in general over Indian blacks). This was a very malty tea, and had a very smoky taste on the finish, and I picked up just the slightest touch of a stonefruit note at the back of the tongue. The tea had a very subtle sweetness, but mostly the tea comes off with a smooth robustness void of bitter or astringent notes.

Flavors: Malt, Smoke, Smooth, Stonefruit

Lexie Aleah

I can’t wait to read your reviews on the Davids Tea’s. It’s definitely one of my favorite companies.

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17 tasting notes

A great yunnan, robust and roasty, but nothing I crave.

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 30 sec

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9 tasting notes

Strong black tea. Quite astringent.

Preparation
Boiling 8 min or more 2 tsp 10 OZ / 300 ML

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22 tasting notes

I tried out this tea this morning while eating breakfast with friends. I brought my tea tumbler (totally just spelled that tumblr at first) with me that I had already put tea leaves into. I’ll be really honest, so far I’ve loved all of my yunnan tea samples from Adagio. Sooo much so that I want to drink them all the time and all day long. They’re more expensive than what I normally drink so I was hoping that I’d hate this tea. I didn’t. I love it so much!!! It’s dark and fruit y and sweet and mellow. I love that I can brew yunnans for a super long amount of time and they still taste delicious. This tea re-brews extremely well. The appearance of the dry leaves is so pretty but I love watching the unfurled leaves as they float around in my tea. Flavor wise- spectacular. Sorry for the randomness and the jumping back and forth on topic, but I get pretty excited when I find a tea that I fall head over heels for. Its a modern day love story. (lol)

On a side note, does anyone have a good recommendation for yunnan black teas? I like to keep it affordable though I really want to try Whispering Pines golden snail.

Flavors: Fruity, Honey, Malt, Sweet, Wet Earth

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 3 min, 30 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML
Nicole

Don’t know what you consider affordable but Yunnan Sourcing’s Yunnans are all good and Mandala Tea’s are as well.

boychik

Agree with Nicole . YS . Also Teavivre, Steven Smith Teamaker, Mandala, Whispering Pines

OMara

Thanks a bunch!

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