Semi-wild tea plants in Yunnan


16 November 2010
Semi-wild tea plants in Yunnan

The harvesting of leaves used to make Pu Er is interesting. Here, in the west of Yunnan near the border with Myanmar, the tea plants are left in a semi-wild state, and the plucking consists of a walk through the forest. Instead of keeping the tea plants cropped at a convenient height for harvesting, as is usually the case, they are left to grow into trees, or always have been, and the workers walk around them to pluck the bud and the next two leaves, as is the practice with all other teas.

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  1. Hi Francois

    I really enjoy reading your blog. Did you find any gems in Burma for tea production? I am thinking of doing some touring of the Shan district myself as a tea fanatic.

    Kind regards

    Kendal

  2. Dear Kendal, Burma produces good teas. But I didnt find any Grand Cru there yet. I keep searching, of course !

  3. This product is made from the fresh and quality wild tea growing 1000M above the sea level in organic tea garden. With the guidance from the senior tea technical staffs, this product is a kind of tea by manual work with no pollution, no poison on it.

    I love Wild Tea 🙂

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