Yunnan Old Tree Black Tea Apricot Honey Fragrance

Yunnan Old Tree Black Tea - Apricot Honey Fragrance Product Details

A luxurious black tea that combines the aroma of Uva with the flavor of Muscatel.

Yunnan Ancient Tree Black Tea Apricot Honey Fragrance is a very rare tea that combines two aromas that many black tea fans desire.

You can enjoy both the muscatel flavor of Oriental Beauty and Darjeeling First Flush, as well as the refreshing menthol aroma of Sri Lankan Uva and Taiwanese Red Eagle Black Tea.

However, in terms of the balance of the fragrance, the menthol scent is strong, while the honey scent is not too prominent, so the overall scent is felt at a harmonious level.

It is rich in iron and may make you drunk when drinking tea.

Furthermore, this tea is made from tea trees that are hundreds of years old and grown entirely naturally, giving it a deep, rich flavor that seeps down your throat and makes your body feel warm when you drink it.

Even though you are drinking tea, your body will feel light and comfortable, and you may even feel sleepy. This is called tea drunkenness, and is said to be a phenomenon felt due to improved blood circulation.

Improved blood circulation is good news for people who tend to suffer from constipation or poor circulation.

The area where it is produced is adjacent to the Golden Triangle of Drugs.

The production area is in the southwest of Yunnan Province, near the border with Myanmar in Lincang City.

The tea plantation is located in an area adjacent to the former drug triangle made up of Laos, Myanmar and Thailand, and is grown at an altitude of over 2,000m.

Naturally grown tea by ethnic minorities

One of the features of this tea is that it is made from naturally grown (left unattended) tea owned by an ethnic minority group.

Not only are no pesticides used, but no fertilizer or pruning is done either; the tea plants are left alone like natural plants, and the tea blends in with the surrounding nature as part of the ecosystem.

Tea trees, having become part of the ecosystem, grow extremely slowly and as a result, they no longer need to actively photosynthesize, so the number of tea leaves each tree produces is extremely small.

Because the plant grows slowly and produces very few leaves per stalk, each leaf is rich in minerals, resulting in healthy leaves.

For more information on natural cultivation, please see the Golden Tea article below.

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The natural, unattended cultivation method also contributes to the development of muscatel flavor (honey aroma).

Because they do not use any pesticides and do not remove weeds around the tea plants, many insects live around the tea plants, including planthoppers that love the new tea buds.

Tea leaves whose juice has been sucked out by the planthoppers produce a substance similar to antibodies in humans.

This substance is called phytoalexin, and during the fermentation process, the phytoalexin is oxidized, producing a sweet aroma similar to that of muscat grapes.

Darjeeling and Oriental Beauty teas are harvested in June when planthoppers appear in large numbers, but the tea grown in Yunnan Province is harvested in March in spring, and despite being of high quality, you can still enjoy the honey aroma.

The thing I want to emphasize above all about naturally grown tea is that it has a very strong flavor and a lingering sweetness.

For example, you can feel the rich taste of wild vegetables picked in the mountains. For example, what is the difference between cultivated ones and wild butterbur, taros, natural wasabi, and natural mitsuba?

Wild mountain plants and vegetables are rich in minerals, which gives them a strong flavor, a lingering taste and aroma, and a sweetness that lingers in the mouth after eating.

When brewing naturally grown tea, the water quality itself feels completely different.

The water becomes finer and you can feel it flowing smoothly down your throat, and you can also experience the strange sensation of the tea seeping into your body.