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Translation: Pu er is a town in Yunnan Province. The word shou means "cooked," and 1999 is the year of productionRegion: Yunnan Province (Xishuangbanna)Harvest season: AprilGultivar: Yunnan This Pu er...

Translation: Great red tea of YunnanAlternative name: Yunnan Black TeaRegion: Yunnan ProvinceHarvest season: AprilCultivar: Yunnan Da Ye Contrary to popular belief, black tea bas not been cultivated in Yunnan for...

The drink for which South Africa is best known is Rooibos which comes from the Cederberg Mountains. It was first mentioned in 1722 by the Swedish botanist Carl Thunberg, who...

Just as the cultivation of the tea tree has a long tradition in China, the processing of the leaves is an art that the Chinese mastered many centuries ago. This...

Spread over 3,781,000 acres (1,530,000 ha), the tea gardens of China are organized in many different ways. Tea trees are arranged in rows about 3 feet (1 m) wide and...

Mr. Liu Xu is a national tea taster. He has also coauthored eight books on tea. Mr. Liu Xu, how long have you been working in the world of tea?I...

China covers a vast territory, and tea growing spreads oyer thousands of miles. More than 3.7 million acres (1.5 million ha) are devoted to tea plantations. The best estates are...

In China, annual tea production now exceeds a million tons (according to 2008 data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), and government initiatives designed to promote...

China is where tea was born. Chinese legends that speak of its discovery are so ancient it would be easy to believe that tea has always existed there. But if...

"Tea comforts the spirit banishes passivity, lightens the body and adds sparkle to the eyes" Shen Nong, Medicinal Herbs Ever since Shen Nong discovered the stimulating and detoxifying properties of...

East Frisia is in the north-west of Germany, and it is the only part of the world where the love of tea rivals that found in the UK. East Frisians...