It's All About Tea — chinese tea

Yellow tea is a rare variety of loose-leaf tea, with the least amount of production and with very few regions producing it. For the hundreds of named green teas in China, only a small handful of yellow teas remain in regular production today. Being by far the rarest in China’s six tea categories, yellow tea, however, is an essential part of China’s long-lived tea tradition and is frequently featured among China’s ‘Ten Famous Teas’ list. (Read more)

Both Sheng and Shou Pu-erh start from the same Da Ye Zhong leaf, but they part ways at a single step – fermentation. One ages slowly and naturally; the other is fermented quickly through a process called wet-piling. The result: two very different teas. (Read more)