Natural Farming Black Tea with Honey Flavor and Refreshing Uva-like Flavor
Yunnan Ancient Black Tea Apricot Honey Flavor features a muscatel flavor and menthol flavor, characterized by a sweet and refreshing flavor in this naturally farmed black tea.
Made from tea trees that are several hundred years old in the remote mountainous regions of Lincang, Yunnan, this tea offers a deep richness that permeates the throat and warms the body as you drink it.
Enjoy the natural farming black tea with honey flavor and a refreshing Uva-like flavor.
Yunnan Ancient Black Tea Apricot Honey Flavor Product Details
Luxurious Black Tea with Uva Flavor and Muscatel Flavor
Yunnan Ancient Black Tea Apricot Honey Flavor is a very rare tea that combines two flavors highly sought after by black tea enthusiasts.
You can enjoy both the muscatel flavor like that of Oriental Beauty or Darjeeling First Flush, and the refreshing menthol flavor like that of Sri Lankan Uva or Taiwanese Ruby Red Tea.
However, in terms of flavor balance, the menthol flavor is stronger, while the honey flavor is present in a harmonious level without being too dominant.
Rich in Iron, May Cause Tea Drunkenness
Furthermore, this tea is made from tea trees that are several hundred years old and naturally farmed, offering a deep richness that permeates the throat and warms the body as you drink it.
Despite drinking tea, you may feel a light, pleasant sensation and sometimes become sleepy. This is known as tea drunkenness, a phenomenon said to be caused by improved blood circulation.
Improved blood circulation is good news for those who suffer from constipation or cold sensitivity.
Natural Farming Tea by Ethnic Minorities
One of the characteristics of this tea is that it is made from naturally farmed (wild-grown) tea owned by ethnic minorities.
Not only is it pesticide-free, but no fertilizers are used, and the tea trees are left unpruned, allowing them to grow naturally like wild plants, blending with the surrounding ecosystem.
Tea trees that have become part of the ecosystem grow extremely slowly, and as a result, do not need to actively photosynthesize, leading to an extremely low number of tea leaves per tree.
Because they grow slowly and have very few leaves per tree, each leaf is rich in minerals, resulting in healthy tea leaves.
For more information on natural farming, please refer to the "Golden Tea" page below.
The wild-growing nature of natural farming contributes to the formation of muscatel flavor (honey flavor).
Because no pesticides are used and the weeds around the tea trees are not removed, many insects inhabit the area, including leafhoppers, which prefer tea buds.
Tea leaves sucked by leafhoppers produce a substance akin to human antibodies.
This substance, called phytoalexin, changes during the fermentation process, creating a sweet muscatel flavor.
While Darjeeling and Oriental Beauty are harvested in June when leafhoppers are abundant, Yunnan tea gardens allow you to enjoy honey flavor even in the high-quality tea plucked in March.
The most notable point about naturally farmed tea is its very rich flavor, with a strong sweet aftertaste.
It is like eating wild mountain vegetables. For example, what is the difference between wild and cultivated fuki, tara no me, natural wasabi, and natural mitsuba?
Wild vegetables contain abundant minerals, giving them a rich flavor and leaving a lingering aftertaste and sweetness in the mouth.
Brewing naturally farmed tea makes the water feel distinctly different.
The water becomes finer and slips smoothly down the throat, giving a unique sensation of the tea permeating the body.
