Three Cranes Dark Tea

Country of Origin: China (Liu Bao) Notes: You might be saying to yourself what is Dark tea?  Don’t be surprised if you are crossing this term for the first time. In fact, we find it amazing that in the world of tea, you can always learn new things. To begin with, there are 5 main types of varietals of tea, namely, white, black, green, oolong and pu-erh (herbals are seperate as they aren't the same plant that these are). You can find it in almost every standard tea books that those are the 5 main types; however, if you look a bit deeper, you will find that Dark tea is the larger set, in which Pu-erh tea belongs in. This term, Dark tea, is highly replaced with Pu-erh, because in the western world, it is the only/main Dark tea that is consumed and sold. In 2008, China recognized Dark tea from Yunnan as being geographically protected meaning this is the only dark tea that can be called Pu-erh despite the fact that a number of other provinces produce fermented dark teas using much the same