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This rare yellow tea from Mt. Mengshan, Mingshan County, Sichuan province has been a tribute tea from the Tang Dynasty (618-907) to the Qing Dynasty(1644-1911). It was a rare case in tea culture history. Meng Ding Huang Ya is mostly made from tea buds picked during the early spring to create a nutritious tea with a mild and sweet flavor and unique fragrance resulted from the complex processing methods. It is ideal for tea drinkers especially women who like green tea but want to avoid stomach upset that can occur from drinking green tea. Yellow tea is legendary for its healing properties. While this cooling tea is very rich in antioxidants, there are only a few types of yellow tea processed due to the complicated and tedious process in making it. After the complex processing, this lightly oxidized tea has a mild flavor without the grassy smell associated with green tea.
In fact, there are only a few masters who know how to make Meng Ding Huang Ya in the totally traditional way. Unfortunately, one of these few rare yellow teas, Huo Shan Huang Ya, is now only made into green tea so Meng Ding Huang Ya is seen by Chinese tea industry people as "living fossil of tea". Some dishonest vendors even cheat by showing the Meng Ding Huang Ya green tea stored for a few years as Meng Ding Huang Ya yellow tea. Even in the Mingshan county where Meng Ding Huang Ya is mainly produced, the Meng Ding Huang Ya made in the green style is much more available than that of yellow style and the genuine Meng Ding Huang Ya yellow tea is getting more and more difficult to be obtained now.
