2025 Mo Gan Yellow Buds Yellow Tea

The Mo Gan Yellow Buds has gentle but deep flavour with a naturally sweet taste owing to its high amino acid content. Virtually no bitterness and no grassy edge. Exceptionally smooth and refreshing, with a gentle, almost creamy mouthfeel and honeyed finish. The aroma is fresh with subtle flora. the infusion produces a clear, yellow liquor that is bright and oily in appearance. Aftertaste has alingering, clean sweetness that leaves a sense of calm and clarity—like a peaceful walk through a bamboo forest. 

What is Yellow Tea?

Yellow tea is a rare and traditional type of Chinese tea. What sets it apart is a unique processing step  known as “sealed yellowing” (闷黄 Meng Huang), in where the slightly pan-fried leaves, still warm and moist, are wrapped in small cloth bundles and gently roasting them over charcoal. This creates a warm, humid environment that allows the tea polyphenols to oxidise slightly, softening the grassy notes typical of green tea. The result is a tea with adelicate yellow hue, a rounded, sweet flavour, and an exceptionally smooth, low-astringency finish.

The Tea Master of Mo Gan Yellow Buds Yellow Tea

Mo Gan Yellow Buds is a modern variety, created in late 1970s, under the guidance of Zhuang Wanfang and Professor Zhang Tangheng from Zhejiang University, and processed by Mrs. Wang Xiangzhen and Mr. Zhao Ronglin, a husband-and-wife team, using raw materials picked from their Hengling Ecological Tea Garden at an elevation of 550-700 meters. The tea was officially named Mo Gan Yellow Buds (Mo Gan Huang Ya). 

In 1982, Mo Gan Yellow Buds was recognized by the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Agriculture as one of the first batch of “Provincial Famous Teas” in Zhejiang. Now, Wang Xiangzhen and Ronglin’s son, as the second-generation inheritor of “Mo Gan Yellow Buds” has been dedicated to promoting and expanding the tea industry. Tea master Mrs. Wang Xiangzhen has been given the prestigious honour of Master of Intangible Cultural Heritage by the state for her expertise in making Tea master. She is now teaching her daughter and granddaughter these rare skills as well.

The Mo Gan Mountain Tea Garden

Nestled among the misty peaks of the Mo Gan Mountain range. The tea garden lies at elevation between 500 to 680 meters above sea level, surrounded by dense bamboo forests.  The weather there is especially good for tea with the average temperature of15°C and humidity levels around 80%, the area creates super microclimatic conditions that enhance the nutrition and quality of the tea leaves. It results that tea grows slower and needs to be harvested about a week later than in other areas.

The old tea bushes were all seed-grown and have developed deep, robust root systems, naturally nourished by natural spring water. The tops of the tea bushes are only cut once every two years so they have plenty of time and space to grow.  The family follows bio-dynamic farming principles; the bush are fertilised with natural fertilisers such as cut grass, weeds, and fermented rapeseed paste (a byproduct of canola oil) to preserve the pristine environment.