Issue No. 5, 2008

The Art Of Tea Magazine

Discover & Guesswork of Liu-an Tea

The reason why it was so named as "Liu-an Tea" was that the Chinese characters "Liu-an Tea" and "Good Value" were always printered on the description tickets. It was heard that Liu-an tea could be used as a medicine trigger with its cooling nature, especially the aged Liu-an tea vintages, because ...

However, according to my research, An-tea was not porduced from the Liu-an area of Anhui province. In fact, it was produced in the area next to Chang River of Qimen ...

Liu-an tea --- Interview and Guesswork

In September 2007, in order to reveal the mystery of Liu-an tea, I interviewed with relevant tea vendorsand local people in Anhui and people in Technical Division of Tea and Food of Agriculture University of Anhui. I also interviewed with Mr. Zhen Jianxin, the former head of Qimen Country, who knew a lot about the history of Qimen tea leaves. ...

Comparison between An-tea and Puerh tea

• The aged tea of both are expensive.
• The names of both teas are not the place of origins of the tea.
• Both teas are fermented.
• ...