How to choose a Yunnan tea category
Raw Pu-erh, ripe Pu-erh, Dian Hong and Yunnan white tea all start from the same large-leaf material. Compare them by process, style, catalog format and sales channel.
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Buyer guides & Yunnan tea stories
Practical guides for importers and tea houses — how to read Yunnan tea, raw vs ripe Pu-erh, formats and tribute-tea heritage.
Yunnan's Four Tea Regions: Xishuangbanna, Pu'er, Lincang and Baoshan
Which Yunnan region a tea comes from, what that does and does not predict, and how our own 26 lots are distributed across Xishuangbanna, Lincang, Pu'er and Baoshan.
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Choosing Yunnan Tea for Different Markets: Categories, Channels and a First-Order Plan
A market-by-market guide to choosing Yunnan tea by local drinking habits, sales channel, price position and packaging format, with a practical sequence for samples and a first wholesale order.
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Kunlu Mountain Royal Tribute Tea: A Distinctive Yunnan Style Known for Elegance
Kunlu Mountain in Ning'er is remembered as a Qing royal tea garden. Its old-garden tea is known for restrained orchid and floral-honey aromas, a fine, soft liquor and a lasting returning sweetness—the qualities tea drinkers describe as elegant.
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Royal Tribute Tea from Yangta Old Village: Yunnan Tea's White Moon
Yangta Old Village in Minle, Jinggu is a historic home of Jinggu large-white tea and the White Dragon Whisker tribute-tea story. Its large, silver-haired buds and low-intervention white-tea processing give a clear, sweet cup with downy, floral and honeyed aromas.
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Yunnan Ancient-Tree Tea's Dust-Removal Journey: How Electrostatic Cleaning Works in Tea Factories
Electrostatic impurity removal is a refining step used to separate hair, fibres and other light foreign matter from finished maocha. It works with screening, air separation, magnets and hand sorting; it does not replace clean production or lot testing.
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How to Brew and Drink Ancient-Tree Ripe Pu-erh the Right Way
Boiling water, two quick rinses, about five seconds for the first five infusions, then ten to fifteen from the sixth — the full brewing method for Baodun Yanyu ancient-tree ripe Pu-erh, and how to read the cup it gives you.
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Supplying Yunnan Tea Under Your Own Brand: What We Produce and What You Decide
We supply Yunnan tea two ways: under our own brands, or under yours. The lot is the same either way — what changes is whose name is on the wrapper and who decides the format.
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Where Do Small Tea Brands Find a Supplier? Private Label, Samples First and a Small First Order
You are not really looking for a factory. You need one supplier who will sample the exact lot you would buy, sell a quantity small enough to be wrong about, and put your label on it without a print run you cannot fill.
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Yunnan Mountain Tea Panorama 2026: The Full Data Release
About 2,000 named village origins, counted by region, flavour, value tier and tree age — our full 2026 compilation of how Yunnan's mountain teas break down.
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Choosing a Private-Label Tea Supplier: Seven Questions for the First Conversation
If you are about to put your brand on someone else's tea, these seven questions separate a producer from a reseller — and tell you what a usable answer looks like.
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Does Rinsing Tea Remove Pesticide Residues? Is Tea Foam Harmful? Five Brewing Myths
A quick rinse is not a residue-removal method, foam on the surface is a normal property of the infusion, and teaware choices depend on the tea. Five brewing questions answered.
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Is Tieguanyin a Green Tea? Is Da Hong Pao a Black Tea? How China's Six Tea Categories Work
Tieguanyin and Da Hong Pao are oolong, Junshan Yinzhen is yellow tea and Biluochun is green tea. Here is how Chinese tea categories are decided by processing.
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Do More Tea Hairs Mean Better Tea? Is Matcha Just Green Tea Powder? 5 Tea Quality Myths
A practical guide to five common tea quality myths: pure material, tea hairs, matcha, new tea and the color of Longjing.
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Wholesale Tea Gift Boxes for Corporate and Holiday Gifting
Plan a wholesale tea gift project around recipients, occasion, delivery date, tea selection and the level of private-label packaging required.
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Opening a Tea Shop? How to Build Your First Wholesale Tea Order
Build a first wholesale tea order around customer use, representative samples, clear specifications and a manageable replenishment plan.
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Why Does Ancient-Tree Pu-erh Have High Drinking Value?
Ancient-tree Pu-erh is valued for the aroma, liquor texture, returning sweetness and infusion stability that a good lot can show. Tree age alone does not guarantee quality: ecology, cultivar, harvest, processing, storage and traceable lot records must agree.
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What Is Yunnan Large-Leaf Tea? How One Leaf Becomes Pu-erh, Dian Hong and White Tea
Learn what Yunnan large-leaf tea means, how processing turns it into Pu-erh, Dian Hong or Yunnan white tea, and why large-leaf is not the same as ancient-tree tea.
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What Tea Is Best When Drinking Alone? A Guide to Choosing and Brewing Tea for Quiet Moments
Choose tea for solo drinking by flavour, brewing convenience and format, with practical starting points for raw and ripe Pu-erh, Dian Hong and Yunnan white tea.
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How to Choose Mid-to-High-End Yunnan Tea: Origin, Lot and Product Collection
A practical guide to comparing mid-to-high-end Yunnan tea by named origin, production lot, sample consistency, format and product collection.
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Raw vs Ripe Pu-erh: what's the difference?
Sheng (raw) and shou (ripe) Pu-erh look similar as cakes but drink very differently. A quick guide for importers building a Yunnan tea range.
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How to read a Yunnan ancient-tree tea label
Mountain, altitude, tree age, harvest year, format — the terms that actually matter when you source single-origin Yunnan tea.
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Dianwu Gongya and Yunnan's tribute-tea heritage
The 'three mountains and two villages' behind Dianwu Gongya, and the heritage they carry.
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