Puer tea - South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/rss/500169/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png Puer tea - South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com Last December, Sotheby’s Hong Kong announced the launch of its inaugural Puer tea online auction with 20-plus lots, spanning from century-old antiques to modern day tipples. The highest bid of US$71,600 (HK$562,500) went to a 1950 Blue Label tea cake weighing around 330 grams – a lot celebrated not just for its antiquity, but because it is from a rare batch made during the municipalisation of tea production in China. One of the oldest forms of tea, Puer is a variety of fermented black tea... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/news-trends/article/3177579/why-old-chinese-tea-can-be-worth-more-wine-or-whisky?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/news-trends/article/3177579/why-old-chinese-tea-can-be-worth-more-wine-or-whisky?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 13 May 2022 08:00:17 +0000 Why old Chinese tea can be worth more than wine or whisky: aged Puer leaves are the latest smart drinks investment – one 70-year-old cake just sold for more than US$70,000 The most prized Pu’er tea trees produce tea leaves that’s worth thousands per kilo. Discovered in 1991, the largest of these tea trees is 84 feet tall, nestled in the Ailao Mountains near Qiangzha Village in the Yunnan province of China.  At 2,700 years-old, it is also considered one of the oldest. Clarissa Wei takes us on a hike through the mountains of Pu’er to find this elusive tree, which many villagers consider a deity. https://www.scmp.com/travel/finding-largest-tea-tree-world-wild-episode-1/article/2157580?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/travel/finding-largest-tea-tree-world-wild-episode-1/article/2157580?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 31 Jul 2018 04:34:17 +0000 Searching for the largest tea tree in the world Leah Li is Yi and a tea merchant in Pu’er, Yunnan Province. This is her family’s traditional tea ceremony, which is performed during cold nights and gatherings. The Yi people are an ethnic group dispersed across southwest China, usually in steep mountainous regions among wild tea trees. Written by: Clarissa Wei Voiceover: Clarissa Wei Featuring: Leah Li Produced by: Clarissa Wei Shot by: Lui Chen Edited by: Mario Chui Mastered by: Victor Peña https://www.scmp.com/culture/tea-ceremony-yi-tradition/article/2154375?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/tea-ceremony-yi-tradition/article/2154375?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 09 Jul 2018 04:25:37 +0000 A tea ceremony in the Yi tradition