News / Yunnantea
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"Quality matters" - Amazing Health Benefits of Tea by Tea Guardian
"Quality matters. There are findings that relate quality with potent substance contents and we shall discuss them in separate articles. However, just quoting USDA’s report, the difference for, say EGCG (Epigallocatechin 3-gallate), one of the tea polyphenols and a most powerful salutary one, can be as much as over 200 mg in a green tea and 0.49 mg in a decaffeinated black tea, per 100 ml of the tea liquid, i.e roughly half a cup! To help you visualize that, it basically means drinking one cup of the former selection is equal to the EGCG potency of 408 cups of...
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你知道嗎?Good teas taste similar to the sweetness of chicken soup ?! and They are Anti-Anxiety?
When we are tasting good quality Green Teas and White Teas, I usually explain to our tea friends about the good tea tastes sweet and it is very similar to the sweetness of chicken soup. Everyone seems surprise by this comment. Here is the scientific explanation: Sweet flavor in meat is derived from sugars, amino acids and organic acids. On the other hand, tea also has an unique amino acid called Theanine! Theanine is an unique amino acid found almost solely in tea plants, and it is a major component which contribute to the sweetness of tea! SO, it makes sense now? Despite...
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We are Earl Grey Lovers! NEW TEA introduction Sample pack for only $5
We are such Earl Grey Lovers. With one kind of Tea( the YunNan Wild Black Tea) , we can make different Earl Grey Blend . Today, we are trying to add some Pink French Roses to the new Earl Grey. This Earl Grey is also a new blend with two type of darker teas. It has a toasted notes in it, and hints of rose and bergamot. The best part is we only like to make teas with high quality loose full tea leaves , which are not from the tea dust ! We gave this new blend to tea drinkers...
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Hi Black Tea Drinkers! Wild YunNan Old Tree Black Tea is Back in Stock! will be gone soon !
The 8th infusion of YunNan Wild Black Tea and its beautiful long leaves tea bud. Finally back in stock ! : $38/LB . If you do the math, YunNan Wild Black Tea is less than $4 for 50g when you are getting a 1 lb bag! Premium quality Black Tea but the price is less than low quality tea bag teas in super market (average $4 for 20g) !! Finally get the YunNan Wild Black Tea in stock. Wooope.. finally! Have been out of stock for weeks. One of the most popular black tea for wholesale order. Excellent quality, full...
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Evening Scene of the Winter Tea Mountain, YunNan
By the time we arrived the Hu's Village, it is already the evening. We really love and treasure this place where nurtures our TEAs. Even though it is winter, the tea mountain still looks like it is in the Fall ! The fields turned into golden colour, the crops are ready for harvest . The scenes are absolutely beautiful ! 我們回到大胡寨時,已經是傍晚時分了。我們很珍惜這片古茶山,幾百年來她一直孕育著我們的古樹茶。
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Video from Tea DB- Review on YunNan Wild Black Tea (Thank you very much for Having us !)
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWW-ckiK9Pg http://www.tanlongtea.com/collections/our-teas-black/products/all-natural-black-tea-small-package This tea is from a small tea family, this family live off tea production in poor and remote parts of Yunnan, and it takes 5 hours of driving on mountain roads to reach them. Even though it is a tough trip to see them and source the tea, we have been working together for many years, from building the processing house for them to distribute the tea to rest of the world. This Black Tea contains extraordinary floral aromatic scent. The Tea leaves are collected from tea trees which are over 50 years old, growing wildly in the...
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Fermented PuEr Health Benefits and Its Antiobesity Properties
My name is the Burgundy, a 10 years old aged Shu Puer tea from TanLongTea http://www.tanlongtea.com/collections/our-teas-puer/products/natural-fermented-puer-2004In a grey windy day, what is better than having a cup of Shou PuEr to keep your body warm.. Shu Puer is also call Fermented Puer, it is mild to the stomach due to its highly oxidized. It can be drink as a diet tea for digestion. Some elderlies love this tea because it has less "cold air" than green teas according to Chinese medicine theory. It is an ideal tea for winter! In the West, researches show: "Pu-erh tea is known for helping to regulate body weight. In...
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NEW TEA REVIEW : The 25 STEEPS of HU'S ANCIENT TEA TREE SHENG PUER!
I got a line up of new teas await me to try ! Exciting ! They are all the best teas selected by my Beloved father Mr.Hu. "Feeling full of LOVE now!" BESIDES giving tea lectures in tea school, My dad stays in YunNan few months every year to make our signature Ancient Tree tea and he also travels to collect teas from best tea regions in YunNan . (http://www.tanlongtea.com/collections/products-of-the-week/products/2014-hus-300-hundreds-year-ancient-tree-unfermented-puerh-cake-tea-357g) (Mr. Hu in traditional Chinese outfit) (Going deep to the undiscovered tea forest) The first day I got the new teas, I picked THE LEGENDARY MANSONG VALLEY to try because I was...
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Imperial Tribute Tea ManSong Sourcing Adventure and its Mystical History !
ManSong Valley locates in Southern YunNan, it belongs to the YiBang Mountain Tea production region. The Mountain is 950 meters above sea level. Soil of the ManSong valley is very different from other tea production area. The soil on the tea mountain is reddish, it contains very high in PH level and rich in minerals. ManSong Valley Tea production started during the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644), it was an imperial reserved tea production area during the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912) . In the Qing Dynasty, only government officials were allow to enter the reservation area to harvest teas and tribute to the...
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YunNan - Our Second Home
美麗的雲南大雪山野放古茶園,第二個家鄉。 The beautiful YunNan Snow Mountain Ancient Tea Tree Forest ! where we call the second home- YunNan(South of the Cloud and Mist Mountains) Trees are between 300-400 years old, no one knows who planted them..if you have a second please help like our page by clicking LIKE on this link:https://www.facebook.com/TanLongTea ! We also have a website that you can visit at www.tanlongtea.com! Please do check it out if you have time! Share it with your friends as well! We are currently based in Toronto and China, so feel fee to reach out to us! Thanks guys and girls