To make pu-erh tea, the leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant are withered and then pan-fried to stop the oxidation process. The leaves are then rolled and shaped before they undergo a microbial ...

And the best pu’erh tea leaves can sell for more than $10,000 US a kilo! “It’s like a perfume,” says Jeff Fuchs, a tea enthusiast and author featured in the film The Tea Explorer ...

Farmers were busy harvesting tea leaves shortly before the Qingming Festival to produce the Mingqian (literally "pre-Qingming ...

Pu’erh tea leaves are hand-plucked from trees that are planted and then allowed to grow wild. “This is literally a tea forest. They’re allowed to live unpruned, unmolested, unfertilized.

Today, Pu’er coffee is a global trend and makes for ... of the Southern Silk Road – helping to promote the trade of tea leaves. This not only speaks volumes of the long history of Pu’er ...