Metropolitan Tea Company - Special 3 Yrs Pu-erh Tea
Toasted bread highlights with elemental and earthly notes.
Luxury Ingredients: Black Tea (Pu-erh style)
Small Batch Blended and Packed in: Canada
Tea(s) From: China
Region(s): Yunnan Province
Antioxidant Level: Medium
Caffeine Content: High
Metropolitan Tea Company - Special 3 Yrs Pu-erh Tea
Pu-erh, manufactured from máochá, a type of mostly unoxidized green tea grown in China's Yunnan province, offers numerous health benefits and a round earthy flavor that gets better with age. The nourishment of age factors into Pu-erh right from the get-go. To make it, unlike traditional teas in which 2 young leaves and a bud are plucked from the bush, 3-4 leaves and a bud are plucked, yielding older, broader leaves more suitable to the fermentation process. Once fermented, the best Peers are aged like fine wine in the cellar of a French chateau, or cheese on the rack of a Swiss barn. The result is an earthy, musty character that sets the tea apart from all its younger competitors.
Capping off the benefits of the aging that goes into Pu-erh, is research that appears to indicate the tea's ability to reverse some of the effects of aging itself. According to practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine, aged Pu-erh has the ability to induce weigh-loss, fight cancer, protect the kidneys and ward off many other of the causes of early mortality.
