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No other country on earth has contributed as much to
the rich history of tea or to the discovery and
understanding of tea cultivation and tea manufacture
as China. During the illustrious dynasty periods of
Chinese history, the six great classes of tea (
black, green, oolong, pu-erh, white, yellow ) were
created one by one as tea workers continually refined
the tea-making process. Experimentation with fresh
leaf led to new techniques with differing results, and
the teas that we know today were born of these early
efforts.
Today, from east to west across the great expanse of
China, unique varieties of hand-made artisan tea
continue to be crafted in remote rural tea villages in
tea-producing regions. There, tea gardens are protected
and nurtured by the isolated environment of high-elevation locations in lofty mountains, which provides
the perfect climate and growing conditions for
producing stunning teas.
No other country on earth has tea workers who
possess the hand-skills of Chinese tea workers. Tea
knowledge and skills are passed down from father to
son and mother to daughter, and the tea workers use
all of their senses and the lessons of tradition to
determine when their hand-crafted teas are ‘just right.’ |
