WuYi Rock Tea

Wu Yi Rock Tea comes from the Wu Yi Shan, Wu Yi Mountain, in Fujian, China. Only tea from this region can be considered authentic Wu Yi Cha. It is incredibly flavorful tea from the stems of the tea plants among the rocks in the Wu Yi Mountains, so it is also called "Wu Yi Rock Tea". It is the best and rarest tea among all teas from the region. Its supply is extremely limited due to the limited growing area. Its enormous weight loss function has been recognized worldwide. According to the history materials, even from Tang Dynasty the public already regarded Wuyi Rock Tea as a favorite gift. During the period of Song and Yuan Dynasty, it had been listed as “Articles of Tribute”. In Yuan Dynasty, the Baking Bureau and the Imperial Tea Garden had been set-up in Wuyi Mountain. While in the years of Kanxi, Qing Dynasty, Wuyi Rock Tea had been sold throughout the world including the West Europe, North America and South Asia; at that time, the European thought that the Wuyi Rock Tea was the general title of all Chinese tea.

Wu Yi Shan’s climate offers a number of unique benefits to growing tea, most notably its mineral soil eroded from the volcanic rock faces. A layer of soft red soil lies about 10-40 cm thick on the ground of Wu Yi’s interior. This is the rich terrior that endows the characteristic flavor of Wu Yi’s tea. In Chinese, this distinctive flavor is expressed as “Yan Yun,” lit. “rock rhyme.”