Bohetang Gaogan 2020

This is the best quality of Bohetang, made from tall and old tea trees.

A rare speciality from Yunnan: Bohetang is a very remote tea-producing region in Yiwu, where an ancient tea garden with a very good biodiversity has been discovered a few years ago. The region is uninhabited and the closest village is a few hours hike away, the only way to get there. In this tea-jungle some 49 trees are growing (12m high and more) - one (no. 13) recently died. Besides, one finds 249 old "beheaded" (i.e. cut) trees and many small trees.

This garden is protected by four families, bound together by four sisters, and the tea is only sold after these agreed to do so.