Wokan Shan Tuo Cha Shou Pu Erh tea is a ripened tea from Yunnan’s Pu Erh district. The seed-grown trees thrive in a biodiverse tea garden with a strictly pesticide-free cultivation approach at 1650m. As a “Pu Erh Tea”, the mushroom- or nest-shaped pressed tea (“tuo cha”) falls into the “dark tea” (=”hei cha”) processing category. It owes its intensively sweet taste of dried dates and dark chocolate to the category’s characteristic processing step of “wet-piling”.
Our Tuo Cha Shou Pu Erh tea is a ripened tea from Wokan Shan in Yunnan’s Pu Erh district. The seed-grown trees of the large-leaved “Qun Ti Zhong” variety thrive in a tea garden at 1650m. The related planting dates back to the 1960s and adheres a biodiverse, strictly pesticide-free cultivation approach.
The “wet-piling” is also responsible for the tea’s intensely sweet taste of dried dates and dark chocolate and the aroma of old, well-tanned leather
The proper picking time for our Wokan Shan Tuo Cha Shou Pu Erh Tee falls into spring. At this, picking takes place according to best picking standard 2+1. That is, one young unopened bud each with the 2 youngest leaves attached to it qualify for picking.