Sun-dried, Wild Shai Hong Black Tea
The Great Emperor of China once asked the tea master Lao Cha: – Tell me, old master, how were you able to achieve a tea with such extraordinary taste? – This wasn’t difficult, my Emperor. All I had to do was wait for a hundred years until the tea bushes reached the ideal age, and the soil surrounding their roots absorbed all the wild fruits, becoming rich and moist. This is the secret. This tea comes from old trees growing in the wild at an elevation of over 2,000 meters in the National Nature Reserve in Lincang, Yunnan. The natural ecological environment provides ideal conditions for tea cultivation, free from pollutants and chemicals. The decomposing wild fruits and fallen leaves give sufficient nutrients to the trees growing in this soil for hundreds of years. In symbiosis with other native plant species in the region, the ancient trees grow for decades without trimming. The high altitude prevents the development of plant diseases, so the trees do not require fertilization or p