Origin: Wa Shan, Cangyuan County, Yunnan Province, China
Cultivar: 紫娟 Zi Juan “Purple Beauty”
Elevation: 1850m
Harvest Date: April 5th – 20th 2022Yunnan Purple Buds is a black tea made from a rare purple leaf tea cultivar called Zi Juan, or "Purple Beauty."
Zi Juan produces beautiful reddish-purple leaves that are high in anthocyanins, a family of red and blue antioxidants found in fruits like blueberries, blackcurrants, grapes and butterfly pea flowers.
In recent years, Zi Juan has become a popular tea in China as a unique source for these healthful plant pigments, catechins and dynamic aroma. Yunnan Purple Buds is grown in an organic and biodiverse tea garden in a lush mountainous region of Yunnan’s Lincang territory boarding Burma.
Wa Shan is a famous tea mountain since ancient times named after the Wa ethnic minority group who calls it home and who has farmed tea for more than a thousand years in this region.