Garden Yunnan Whole-Leaf Black Loose Tea

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A very complex and spicy Yunnan tea with a delicate cup that offers plenty of body and is never overpowering. Try this tea as an afternoon or early evening pick-me-up!

Tea from Shangri-La.

Yunnan province on the mighty Mekong river in southwestern China (north of Vietnam and Laos) gained its name, which means "South of the Clouds," during the Tang dynasty (AD 618 - 907), when a local prince, having made the tedious journey to the Emperor's court, told his sovereign that he had come from the lands south of the rainy weather in Sichuan. The mountain-encased and until recently not easily accessible province is probably the location of the mythical Shangri-La, referred to in James Milton's "Lost Horizons," as well as home to the ancient city of Lijang (a UNESCO world heritage site) in the shadow of the mighty Yulong (Jade Dragon) Snow Mountain, Bai horses, Dali marble and numerous medicinal products, including one of China's famous "wonder drugs," the white powder known as "Baibao Dan" (One Hundred Treasures Drug), which is said to cure everything from injuries to certain gynecological diseases, and frequently applied to clean open wounds and stop bleeding, stimulate blood circulation, and against inflammations.

Tea plantation in Yunnan began about 1700 years ago, during the Sung Dynasty (AD 960 - 1279), when the city of Pu'erh in the South of the province became a major tea trading center; although at least in Yunnan's northwestern corner the tradition is probably even older and was imported across the border from Tibet during the Tang dynasty. Elsewhere, bricks of Pu-erh tea also constituted the first medium of monetary exchange used by nomads beyond the Great Wall of China, and their use has been recorded as early as A.D. 476.

Yunnan is a broadleaf tea with a distinctly bright color and intense, lasting, slightly peppery or spicy taste. Unusually forgiving, Yunnan tea usually does not grow bitter, even when it is oversteeped.

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