Best Tea and Honey The Sacred Mountains of Tea!
In Ancient China, the greatest tea of all was called Pu Erh. It is still made today, as a a deluxe, gourmet tea in the form of cakes that gains value and flavor as it ages, like fine wines. At Red Leaf Tea, you can find a few pu erhs for sale at great prices, like the wonderful Xaio Tuo Cha pictured here. The Chinese tea connoisseurs of yore declared that true Pu Erh had to be harvested strictly from the broad-leafed variety of the tea tree, and that these leaves had to be extremely young pekoes, oir buds with two leaves attached. Furthermore, the true pu erh leaves came only from the Six Tea Mountains of Yunan Province, called Bada, Nannuo, Youle, Menghai, Mengsong and Jinghai! Today, that definition has widened to include any hand-processed leaves, harvested early in their growth, from wild trees growing in the forests of Yunan.