China (Mainland)
Organic Tea for Your Health
Pure Puer Tea is among the highest quality puer teas in the world. It is hand-picked from old and ancient large-leaf tea trees that grow high in the remote misty mountains of Yunnan, China. Our puer tea, also known as puerh, pu-erh, pu-er, and pu-eh tea, is naturally aged to produce a healthy tea with a smooth, mellow, earthy taste
Chinese people have been drinking hand-picked green puer tea for about two thousand years. For centuries it was a drink of the emperors. Today, many people around the world are discovering and enjoying natural green puer tea for its smooth, mellow, earthy taste, and because they believe it has many health benefits. In China, green puer is known as "raw puer." It is different from green tea because it is not baked when processed.
In general, green puer which has been aged less than five years has a slight bitter taste with a subtle sweet aftertaste. As the tea ages, it becomes smoother, sweeter, loses its bitterness, and the color changes from light yellow to a much darker amber color. It leaves a very smooth feeling on the lips. Green puer tea improves with age up to 65 years.
Black puer, known in China as "ripe puer", originated in 1973. It was a new way to develop the smooth, mellow, earthy taste of naturally-aged green puer, without having to wait for years. Black puer is not the same as black tea, because black puer is not baked, and is low in caffeine. Our black puer and green puer are made with the same hand-picked, sun dried, organic puer tea leaves, but are processed differently. By accelerating the aging process, the black puer develops an extremely smooth, mellow, earthy flavor with a slight sweet aftertaste.
Black and green puer tea are different from all other teas in that high temperatures are not used to make them. This allows certain beneficial microbes to live. The microbial aging process continues long after the tea leaves the factory. Black puer tea improves with age up to 25 years.