Pu-erh or Pu'er tea (普洱茶) is a type of tea made from a "large leaf" variety of the tea plant Camellia sinensis and named after Pu'er county near Simao, Yunnan, China।
Pu-erh tea can either be purchased as either raw/green (sheng) or ripened/cooked(shou), depending on processing method or aging. Sheng and shou pu-erh can in turn be roughly classified on the tea oxidation scale as either a green tea or post-fermented tea, respectively. The fact that pu-erh fits in more than one tea type poses some problems for classification. For this reason, the "green tea" aspect of pu-erh is sometimes ignored, and the tea is regarded solely as a post-fermented product. Unlike other teas that should ideally be consumed shortly after production, pu-erh can be drunk immediately or aged for many years. As such, pu-erh teas are often now classified by year and region of production much like wine vintages.
While there are many forgeries of pu-erh on the market and real aged pu-erh is difficult to find and identify, it is still possible to find pu-erh that is 10 to 50 years old, as well as a few from the late Qing dynasty. Indeed, tea connoisseurs and speculators are willing to pay high prices for older pu-erh, upwards of thousands of dollars per cake.
Pu-erh tea is typically available as loose leaf or as cakes of compacted tea।
2 comments:
i like tea especially taiwanese tea Ooo Loong... out there got any puerh tea from taiwan??
Sorry, not too sure about taiwan, I'm from Malaysia, pu erh tea can be easily found at any shops in Kuala Lumpur.
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