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Purple Tea

Purple Tea is a special Yunnan tea. There exist three unique varieties, all different cultivars. The original Purple tea is called "Wild Purple" or "Ye Sheng" Purple tea. The varietal is referred to as Assamica Dehongensis. Ye Sheng tea is very bitter when young but ages quickly and develops great complexity with age. It was originally processed into mao cha and sold as a kind of Raw Pu-erh tea, but more recently has been processed into Black tea with incredible results! The second kind of purple tea is often called "Zi Cha" 紫茶 or 紫芽 (Purple tea or Purple Bud). Zi Cha is a naturally occurring mutated version of Assamica. It grows all over Yunnan and accounts for less than 1% of cultivated Assamica in Yunnan. The third kind of purple tea is called "Zi Juan". Zi Juan (aka Purple Beauty) is a man-made cultivar developed by Yunnan Xishuangbanna Tea Research Station in the late 1990's. Fujianese purple leaf cuttings from Wu Yi area were hybridized with local Yunnan Assamica plants to product this unique tea.

  • Wu Yi Shan "Zi Hong Pao" Purple Da Hong Pao Oolong Tea

    $9.50 USD - $274.00 USD
    $9.50 USD - $274.00 USD
    $9.50 USD - $274.00 USD
    $9.50 USD
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    "Zi Hong Pao" is a purple varietal that's a naturally mutated offshoot from the classic "Da Hong Pao" varietal. It's also called "Jiu Long Pao" (li...

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    $9.50 USD - $274.00 USD
    $9.50 USD - $274.00 USD
    $9.50 USD - $274.00 USD
    $9.50 USD

  • 2002 CNNP "Wild Tree Ye Sheng Purple" Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake

    $13.25 USD - $137.50 USD
    $13.25 USD - $137.50 USD
    $13.25 USD - $137.50 USD
    $13.25 USD

    This is a small farmer production using a generic CNNP 中茶 Simplified Character wrapper.  This is made entirely from Spring 2002 wild-harvested "Ye ...

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    $13.25 USD - $137.50 USD
    $13.25 USD - $137.50 USD
    $13.25 USD - $137.50 USD
    $13.25 USD

  • 2012 Yunnan Sourcing "Autumn Yi Wu Purple Tea" Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake

    $16.25 USD - $132.25 USD
    $16.25 USD - $132.25 USD
    $16.25 USD - $132.25 USD
    $16.25 USD
    In stock

    This tea cake is composed from late autumn harvest of purple tea from the Yi Wu mountains in Xishuangbanna.  Purple tea leaves from bushes aged 20 ...

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    $16.25 USD - $132.25 USD
    $16.25 USD - $132.25 USD
    $16.25 USD - $132.25 USD
    $16.25 USD
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