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Red Peony Premium Red Tea
What is Red Tea?
What we call "Black Tea" in the West, Chinese call "Red Tea" (Hong Cha 红茶.) It is rich and crisp with a sweet taste and a smoothly tannic aftertaste.
It is an excellent tea for drinkers used to Western tea blends, like Earl Grey or English Breakfast.
Red Peony Premium Red Tea
Red Peony is a varietal named for its fantastic floral fragrance. While the flavor is sweet and smooth, this tea’s “premium” status comes from isolating the best hand-picked leaves and controlling the red tea fermentation process in such a way to create an intense floral-scented experience with each cup.
This scent is achieved through a combination of natural terroir and the skill of Master tea processor Mao Hongyi’s experience – controlling the time of the kneading, fermentation, and roasting steps so as to slowly bring out the tea’s natural scent. No artificial oils are used.
Jesse Says:
Because there are a lot of good red teas at reasonable prices – see the Red Pearl in this same Guizhou Province series – I usually don’t look too long at premium red tea options when I go to the tea mountains.
Even then, when I make an exception to my rule, it’s usually because the tea trees are very old, or there is something else unique about the tea.
This Red Peony, however, just caught me from the beginning when I first drank it on Tea Longevity Mountain, as we overlooked the tea hills where it was picked. The whole Jesse’s Teahouse team was struck by the first scent coming out of the gaiwan, and we tried to figure out how to get it into the shop.
If you want to try some without getting a whole pack, it’s also in the Guizhou Province Sampler – give it a try!
About Guizhou Province & The Tea
Guizhou is one of the most geographically isolated parts of China, as its high mountains and winding valleys make travel beautiful, but difficult.
Guizhou is famous for Maotai liquor, China’s most esteemed Baijiu (rice liquor). The spirit is distilled in Guizhou because of the pristine sources of pure water, unpolluted by industry or large population centers. This same water makes Guizhou’s agricultural products – including tea! – famous all around China.
Cha Shou Shan (Tea Longevity Mountain): A Tea Mountain Time Machine
Cha Shou Shan (Tea Longevity Mountain) is located in an isolated corner of Fenggang Country, Guizhou. The terrain and lack of roads meant that
This isolation meant that in the 1990s, our tea farmer partners were able to preserve an enormous swath of land deep in the forest. They planted tea trees and traditional Chinese medicines, and let them grow without pesticide or pollution, working with local villagers to harvest the leaves once per year in the spring.
The result is a “tea mountain time machine” - the land is even accredited as meeting the Rainforest Alliance’s Sustainable Agricultural Standard. This title is only given if the state of the land is tested scientifically and believed to be as pristine and biodiverse as it would have been 100 years ago.
Three years ago, a new highway opened up connecting Tea Longevity Mountain to Zunyi, cutting travel time to the closest regional airport from nine hours to three hours. In the past few years since the highway opened, our tea farmer partners have built infrastructure to connect the tea farms to the rest of the country – and the world!
We have the honor of being the first Western tea company to share these teas - enjoy a sip of the amazing nature!
Jesse Says:
As the teahouse has grown, I’ve thought a lot about where I can truly add the most value, both to our tea customers, but also to our tea farmers.
I decided that helping share tea from places like Guizhou - well known in China for producing high-quality tea in pristine natural conditions, but almost completely unknown in the West - was a win-win-win situation.
The first win is for our customers, who can get tea that punches above its weight in quality and cleanliness, but without paying for “brand name” tea regions that raise the price in the China market.
The second win is for our farmers, who lack any way of selling directly to Western customers, and need to fight to explain where their tea is from, since very few have heard of their home.
The third win is for me, since I get to go to Guizhou and experience the amazing nature, food, culture, and tea from this fantastic region. Places like Guizhou – wild mountains, fresh food, and diverse ethnic cultures – are my favorite places in China.
This is the first in what I hope to be a series of province-themed tea samplers. I hope you enjoy!
Jesse and the JTH team in Guizhou
You can learn more about Guizhou from our Guizhou blog post!
Try our Guizhou Province Sampler!
Want to try this tea, but also others from the same mountain? Our Guizhou Province tea sampler has this tea along with others!
NOT JUST TEA, TEA CULTURE
Jesse believes the key to making good tea is to help his Chinese tea friends share not just their best teas, but the best ways to make the teas.
That's why each box comes also comes with an info card that tells you:
- Tea Origin
- Steep Temperature
- Steep Time
- Directions for both teapot steeping and gaiwan steeping
All Jesse’s Teahouse Tea Friends (that’s you now!) also get access to private YouTube videos where Jesse and his Chinese tea friends show you how to make the teas and explain the tea-making process.
The links are on QR codes on the back of the info card included in the tea box.
Don't Forget Your Tea Pets!
In Chinese Gongfu Tea Tradition, Tea Pets accompany you at teatime and you "raise" them by feeding them tea! Don't forget to check the tea pet page before you go!
Red Peony Premium Red Tea
What is Red Tea?
What we call "Black Tea" in the West, Chinese call "Red Tea" (Hong Cha 红茶.) It is rich and crisp with a sweet taste and a smoothly tannic aftertaste.
It is an excellent tea for drinkers used to Western tea blends, like Earl Grey or English Breakfast.
Red Peony Premium Red Tea
Red Peony is a varietal named for its fantastic floral fragrance. While the flavor is sweet and smooth, this tea’s “premium” status comes from isolating the best hand-picked leaves and controlling the red tea fermentation process in such a way to create an intense floral-scented experience with each cup.
This scent is achieved through a combination of natural terroir and the skill of Master tea processor Mao Hongyi’s experience – controlling the time of the kneading, fermentation, and roasting steps so as to slowly bring out the tea’s natural scent. No artificial oils are used.
Jesse Says:
Because there are a lot of good red teas at reasonable prices – see the Red Pearl in this same Guizhou Province series – I usually don’t look too long at premium red tea options when I go to the tea mountains.
Even then, when I make an exception to my rule, it’s usually because the tea trees are very old, or there is something else unique about the tea.
This Red Peony, however, just caught me from the beginning when I first drank it on Tea Longevity Mountain, as we overlooked the tea hills where it was picked. The whole Jesse’s Teahouse team was struck by the first scent coming out of the gaiwan, and we tried to figure out how to get it into the shop.
If you want to try some without getting a whole pack, it’s also in the Guizhou Province Sampler – give it a try!
About Guizhou Province & The Tea
Guizhou is one of the most geographically isolated parts of China, as its high mountains and winding valleys make travel beautiful, but difficult.
Guizhou is famous for Maotai liquor, China’s most esteemed Baijiu (rice liquor). The spirit is distilled in Guizhou because of the pristine sources of pure water, unpolluted by industry or large population centers. This same water makes Guizhou’s agricultural products – including tea! – famous all around China.
Cha Shou Shan (Tea Longevity Mountain): A Tea Mountain Time Machine
Cha Shou Shan (Tea Longevity Mountain) is located in an isolated corner of Fenggang Country, Guizhou. The terrain and lack of roads meant that
This isolation meant that in the 1990s, our tea farmer partners were able to preserve an enormous swath of land deep in the forest. They planted tea trees and traditional Chinese medicines, and let them grow without pesticide or pollution, working with local villagers to harvest the leaves once per year in the spring.
The result is a “tea mountain time machine” - the land is even accredited as meeting the Rainforest Alliance’s Sustainable Agricultural Standard. This title is only given if the state of the land is tested scientifically and believed to be as pristine and biodiverse as it would have been 100 years ago.
Three years ago, a new highway opened up connecting Tea Longevity Mountain to Zunyi, cutting travel time to the closest regional airport from nine hours to three hours. In the past few years since the highway opened, our tea farmer partners have built infrastructure to connect the tea farms to the rest of the country – and the world!
We have the honor of being the first Western tea company to share these teas - enjoy a sip of the amazing nature!
Jesse Says:
As the teahouse has grown, I’ve thought a lot about where I can truly add the most value, both to our tea customers, but also to our tea farmers.
I decided that helping share tea from places like Guizhou - well known in China for producing high-quality tea in pristine natural conditions, but almost completely unknown in the West - was a win-win-win situation.
The first win is for our customers, who can get tea that punches above its weight in quality and cleanliness, but without paying for “brand name” tea regions that raise the price in the China market.
The second win is for our farmers, who lack any way of selling directly to Western customers, and need to fight to explain where their tea is from, since very few have heard of their home.
The third win is for me, since I get to go to Guizhou and experience the amazing nature, food, culture, and tea from this fantastic region. Places like Guizhou – wild mountains, fresh food, and diverse ethnic cultures – are my favorite places in China.
This is the first in what I hope to be a series of province-themed tea samplers. I hope you enjoy!
Jesse and the JTH team in Guizhou
You can learn more about Guizhou from our Guizhou blog post!
Try our Guizhou Province Sampler!
Want to try this tea, but also others from the same mountain? Our Guizhou Province tea sampler has this tea along with others!
NOT JUST TEA, TEA CULTURE
Jesse believes the key to making good tea is to help his Chinese tea friends share not just their best teas, but the best ways to make the teas.
That's why each box comes also comes with an info card that tells you:
- Tea Origin
- Steep Temperature
- Steep Time
- Directions for both teapot steeping and gaiwan steeping
All Jesse’s Teahouse Tea Friends (that’s you now!) also get access to private YouTube videos where Jesse and his Chinese tea friends show you how to make the teas and explain the tea-making process.
The links are on QR codes on the back of the info card included in the tea box.
Don't Forget Your Tea Pets!
In Chinese Gongfu Tea Tradition, Tea Pets accompany you at teatime and you "raise" them by feeding them tea! Don't forget to check the tea pet page before you go!
Red Peony Premium Red Tea
What is Red Tea?
What we call "Black Tea" in the West, Chinese call "Red Tea" (Hong Cha 红茶.) It is rich and crisp with a sweet taste and a smoothly tannic aftertaste.
It is an excellent tea for drinkers used to Western tea blends, like Earl Grey or English Breakfast.
Red Peony Premium Red Tea
Red Peony is a varietal named for its fantastic floral fragrance. While the flavor is sweet and smooth, this tea’s “premium” status comes from isolating the best hand-picked leaves and controlling the red tea fermentation process in such a way to create an intense floral-scented experience with each cup.
This scent is achieved through a combination of natural terroir and the skill of Master tea processor Mao Hongyi’s experience – controlling the time of the kneading, fermentation, and roasting steps so as to slowly bring out the tea’s natural scent. No artificial oils are used.
Jesse Says:
Because there are a lot of good red teas at reasonable prices – see the Red Pearl in this same Guizhou Province series – I usually don’t look too long at premium red tea options when I go to the tea mountains.
Even then, when I make an exception to my rule, it’s usually because the tea trees are very old, or there is something else unique about the tea.
This Red Peony, however, just caught me from the beginning when I first drank it on Tea Longevity Mountain, as we overlooked the tea hills where it was picked. The whole Jesse’s Teahouse team was struck by the first scent coming out of the gaiwan, and we tried to figure out how to get it into the shop.
If you want to try some without getting a whole pack, it’s also in the Guizhou Province Sampler – give it a try!
About Guizhou Province & The Tea
Guizhou is one of the most geographically isolated parts of China, as its high mountains and winding valleys make travel beautiful, but difficult.
Guizhou is famous for Maotai liquor, China’s most esteemed Baijiu (rice liquor). The spirit is distilled in Guizhou because of the pristine sources of pure water, unpolluted by industry or large population centers. This same water makes Guizhou’s agricultural products – including tea! – famous all around China.
Cha Shou Shan (Tea Longevity Mountain): A Tea Mountain Time Machine
Cha Shou Shan (Tea Longevity Mountain) is located in an isolated corner of Fenggang Country, Guizhou. The terrain and lack of roads meant that
This isolation meant that in the 1990s, our tea farmer partners were able to preserve an enormous swath of land deep in the forest. They planted tea trees and traditional Chinese medicines, and let them grow without pesticide or pollution, working with local villagers to harvest the leaves once per year in the spring.
The result is a “tea mountain time machine” - the land is even accredited as meeting the Rainforest Alliance’s Sustainable Agricultural Standard. This title is only given if the state of the land is tested scientifically and believed to be as pristine and biodiverse as it would have been 100 years ago.
Three years ago, a new highway opened up connecting Tea Longevity Mountain to Zunyi, cutting travel time to the closest regional airport from nine hours to three hours. In the past few years since the highway opened, our tea farmer partners have built infrastructure to connect the tea farms to the rest of the country – and the world!
We have the honor of being the first Western tea company to share these teas - enjoy a sip of the amazing nature!
Jesse Says:
As the teahouse has grown, I’ve thought a lot about where I can truly add the most value, both to our tea customers, but also to our tea farmers.
I decided that helping share tea from places like Guizhou - well known in China for producing high-quality tea in pristine natural conditions, but almost completely unknown in the West - was a win-win-win situation.
The first win is for our customers, who can get tea that punches above its weight in quality and cleanliness, but without paying for “brand name” tea regions that raise the price in the China market.
The second win is for our farmers, who lack any way of selling directly to Western customers, and need to fight to explain where their tea is from, since very few have heard of their home.
The third win is for me, since I get to go to Guizhou and experience the amazing nature, food, culture, and tea from this fantastic region. Places like Guizhou – wild mountains, fresh food, and diverse ethnic cultures – are my favorite places in China.
This is the first in what I hope to be a series of province-themed tea samplers. I hope you enjoy!
Jesse and the JTH team in Guizhou
You can learn more about Guizhou from our Guizhou blog post!
Try our Guizhou Province Sampler!
Want to try this tea, but also others from the same mountain? Our Guizhou Province tea sampler has this tea along with others!
NOT JUST TEA, TEA CULTURE
Jesse believes the key to making good tea is to help his Chinese tea friends share not just their best teas, but the best ways to make the teas.
That's why each box comes also comes with an info card that tells you:
- Tea Origin
- Steep Temperature
- Steep Time
- Directions for both teapot steeping and gaiwan steeping
All Jesse’s Teahouse Tea Friends (that’s you now!) also get access to private YouTube videos where Jesse and his Chinese tea friends show you how to make the teas and explain the tea-making process.
The links are on QR codes on the back of the info card included in the tea box.
Don't Forget Your Tea Pets!
In Chinese Gongfu Tea Tradition, Tea Pets accompany you at teatime and you "raise" them by feeding them tea! Don't forget to check the tea pet page before you go!
Red Peony Premium Red Tea
What is Red Tea?
What we call "Black Tea" in the West, Chinese call "Red Tea" (Hong Cha 红茶.) It is rich and crisp with a sweet taste and a smoothly tannic aftertaste.
It is an excellent tea for drinkers used to Western tea blends, like Earl Grey or English Breakfast.
Red Peony Premium Red Tea
Red Peony is a varietal named for its fantastic floral fragrance. While the flavor is sweet and smooth, this tea’s “premium” status comes from isolating the best hand-picked leaves and controlling the red tea fermentation process in such a way to create an intense floral-scented experience with each cup.
This scent is achieved through a combination of natural terroir and the skill of Master tea processor Mao Hongyi’s experience – controlling the time of the kneading, fermentation, and roasting steps so as to slowly bring out the tea’s natural scent. No artificial oils are used.
Jesse Says:
Because there are a lot of good red teas at reasonable prices – see the Red Pearl in this same Guizhou Province series – I usually don’t look too long at premium red tea options when I go to the tea mountains.
Even then, when I make an exception to my rule, it’s usually because the tea trees are very old, or there is something else unique about the tea.
This Red Peony, however, just caught me from the beginning when I first drank it on Tea Longevity Mountain, as we overlooked the tea hills where it was picked. The whole Jesse’s Teahouse team was struck by the first scent coming out of the gaiwan, and we tried to figure out how to get it into the shop.
If you want to try some without getting a whole pack, it’s also in the Guizhou Province Sampler – give it a try!
About Guizhou Province & The Tea
Guizhou is one of the most geographically isolated parts of China, as its high mountains and winding valleys make travel beautiful, but difficult.
Guizhou is famous for Maotai liquor, China’s most esteemed Baijiu (rice liquor). The spirit is distilled in Guizhou because of the pristine sources of pure water, unpolluted by industry or large population centers. This same water makes Guizhou’s agricultural products – including tea! – famous all around China.
Cha Shou Shan (Tea Longevity Mountain): A Tea Mountain Time Machine
Cha Shou Shan (Tea Longevity Mountain) is located in an isolated corner of Fenggang Country, Guizhou. The terrain and lack of roads meant that
This isolation meant that in the 1990s, our tea farmer partners were able to preserve an enormous swath of land deep in the forest. They planted tea trees and traditional Chinese medicines, and let them grow without pesticide or pollution, working with local villagers to harvest the leaves once per year in the spring.
The result is a “tea mountain time machine” - the land is even accredited as meeting the Rainforest Alliance’s Sustainable Agricultural Standard. This title is only given if the state of the land is tested scientifically and believed to be as pristine and biodiverse as it would have been 100 years ago.
Three years ago, a new highway opened up connecting Tea Longevity Mountain to Zunyi, cutting travel time to the closest regional airport from nine hours to three hours. In the past few years since the highway opened, our tea farmer partners have built infrastructure to connect the tea farms to the rest of the country – and the world!
We have the honor of being the first Western tea company to share these teas - enjoy a sip of the amazing nature!
Jesse Says:
As the teahouse has grown, I’ve thought a lot about where I can truly add the most value, both to our tea customers, but also to our tea farmers.
I decided that helping share tea from places like Guizhou - well known in China for producing high-quality tea in pristine natural conditions, but almost completely unknown in the West - was a win-win-win situation.
The first win is for our customers, who can get tea that punches above its weight in quality and cleanliness, but without paying for “brand name” tea regions that raise the price in the China market.
The second win is for our farmers, who lack any way of selling directly to Western customers, and need to fight to explain where their tea is from, since very few have heard of their home.
The third win is for me, since I get to go to Guizhou and experience the amazing nature, food, culture, and tea from this fantastic region. Places like Guizhou – wild mountains, fresh food, and diverse ethnic cultures – are my favorite places in China.
This is the first in what I hope to be a series of province-themed tea samplers. I hope you enjoy!
Jesse and the JTH team in Guizhou
You can learn more about Guizhou from our Guizhou blog post!
Try our Guizhou Province Sampler!
Want to try this tea, but also others from the same mountain? Our Guizhou Province tea sampler has this tea along with others!
NOT JUST TEA, TEA CULTURE
Jesse believes the key to making good tea is to help his Chinese tea friends share not just their best teas, but the best ways to make the teas.
That's why each box comes also comes with an info card that tells you:
- Tea Origin
- Steep Temperature
- Steep Time
- Directions for both teapot steeping and gaiwan steeping
All Jesse’s Teahouse Tea Friends (that’s you now!) also get access to private YouTube videos where Jesse and his Chinese tea friends show you how to make the teas and explain the tea-making process.
The links are on QR codes on the back of the info card included in the tea box.
Don't Forget Your Tea Pets!
In Chinese Gongfu Tea Tradition, Tea Pets accompany you at teatime and you "raise" them by feeding them tea! Don't forget to check the tea pet page before you go!
