Yunnan Black Tea

The main growing area is Fengqing County in Lincang

The main growing area of Yunnan black tea is Fengqing County in Lincang. In Fengqing, cultivars suited to black tea are the norm, and most tea gardens are conventionally farmed, as in Japan and Taiwan. This approach suits mass production, and because it is mass production, the tea has a light aftertaste and its flavor does not linger long.

The best quality comes from remote, high-altitude areas

Outside Fengqing, Yunnan black tea is mostly made from seed-grown trees, the same kind used for pu-erh tea. When the trees are old and grown at high altitude without fertilizers or pesticides, the leaf quality is exceptionally high, with a long finish and a rich aftertaste that seems to soak into the body. However, most of these fine growing areas are in very remote places, and the tea is very hard to obtain.

HOJO's Yunnan black tea

Instead of Fengqing, HOJO uses tea from trees averaging several hundred years old in the mountains of Yongde and Zhenkang Counties, at 2,000 m or higher, where many naturally grown old trees remain, grown without pesticides or fertilizers.