Tea enthusiast and author Jeff Fuchs, featured in The Tea Explorer, travelled to ancient tea forests in China’s southern Yunnan province. Pu’erh tea leaves are hand-plucked from trees that are ...

The Yunnan province is known for producing high-quality teas — in particular, a fermented one called puer or pu’erh.

In ancient China tea was used for medicinal purposes, was a drink served in the imperial court and, eventually, a daily essential for the general population. In due course cha dao (the Chinese tea ...

Tea's emigration out of these little green bastions of China to all points of the compass, this is a tale that needs to be told. A thousand years ago, people in southern Yunnan kept their pu’erh ...