Biodiversi-TEA : Tea from forest- and climate-friendly cultivation
Top health and environment-friendly Teas from biodiverse cultivation or wild collection – forest- and climate-friendly grown artisan teas by master hand.
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8 x Ancient Snow Shan Sample Box
€27,90 – €59,90All 8 Ancient Snow Shan teas in one box! To try all teas from our line of North Vietnamese Arbor teas at Siam Tea Shop, or just for your enjoyment! That is, either 10g or 25g of each of the following Tuyet Shan / Ancient Snow Shan teas in the SiamTeas box: Ancient Snow Shan Green Tea, Ancient Snow Shan Black Tea, Ancient Snow Shan Silver Needle White Tea, Ancient Snow Shan Tra Pai Hao, Ancient Snow Shan Shou „1+2“, Ancient Snow Shan Sheng „1+1“, Ancient Snow Shan Sheng „1+2“, Ancient Snow Shan Sheng „Big Leaves“.
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Ancient Phoenix Competition Grade Ripe Puer Tea – Discs
€27,90€25,10Fermented / ripe Puer tea from Wuliang Mountain, Yunnan, China. Winner of the Gold medal for the best ripened (‚shu‘) Puer tea on the Yunnan Government Puer Tea Competition 2011. Ancient Phoenix Competition Grade Ripe Puer Tea sticks out through an individual, full-bodied and soft velevety taste, dominated by coffee bean, chocolate and licorice notes, the biodiverse setting of the ancient tea trees of Yunnan’s Wuliang mountain and a centuries-old tradition of Pu Erh tea productin in the producer family.
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Ancient Snow Shan Big Leaves Sheng Pu Erh Tea
€5,70 – €61,10Ancient Snow Shan Big Leaves Sheng Pu Erh Tea is an unripened “hei cha” from ancient tea trees in Vietnam’s northernmost province, Ha Giang, with big leaves picking standard. Accordingly, pronounced earthy and mineral notes dominate this tea’s taste. However, soon after hitting the taste buds, the liquor will provoque an intense, long lingering sweetness. Ultimately, the overall taste impression reflects the essence of the land and sky under which the tea trees thrive. As is characteristic for teas from our producer partner in Ha Giang, the processing of their pu erh teas is rooted in ancient local artisan traditions.
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Ancient Snow Shan Black Tea
€6,90 – €39,90Handpicked black tea from 100+ years old “Thuyet Shan” (= “Snow High Mountain”) tea trees in Ha Giang province, Vietnam. Our producer partner in Vietnam picks this tea from March to midst of May and from September to November every year with a picking standard of 1+2 from the tea trees of their biodiverse and health and environment-friendly operated plantation, located at altitudes of 1400+ meters. Until today, a large part of the processing is done manually and in form of a true “artisan process”.
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Ancient Snow Shan Green Tea
€6,90 – €39,90Ancient Artisan Snow Shan Green Tea – handpicked from 100+ years old “Thuyet Shan” (= “Snow High Mountain”) tea trees in Ha Giang province, Vietnam. Our producer partner in Vietnam picks this tea every year in spring with a picking standard of 1+1 from the tea trees of their biodiverse and health and environment-friendlyally operated tea plantation. Even today, large parts of the processing are done manually, forming a true “artisan process”.
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Ancient Snow Shan Sheng Pu Erh Tea 1+1
€6,50 – €71,90Ancient Snow Shan Sheng Pu Erh Tee 1+1 is a unripened “hei cha” from ancient tea trees in Vietnam’s northernmost province, Ha Giang. Only the young buds, each with one leaf attached, are picked for this tea – of course, by hand. Like all teas of our producer partner in Ha Giang, the processing of their pu erh teas is rooted in ancient local artisan traditions. This, along with a genuine passion for producing tea, leads to a level of processing excellence that is about unprecedented in the industry.
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Ancient Snow Shan Sheng Pu Erh Tea 1+2
€6,20 – €67,40Ancient Snow Shan Sheng Pu Erh Tee 1+2 is an unripened “hei cha” from ancient tea trees in Vietnam’s northernmost province, Ha Giang. Only the young buds, each with two leaves attached to it, are picked for this tea – of course, by hand. Like all teas from our producer partner in Ha Giang, the processing of their pu erh teas is rooted in ancient local artisan traditions. This, along with a genuine passion for producing tea, leads to a level of picking and processing excellence that is about unprecedented in the industry.
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Ancient Snow Shan Shou Pu Erh Tea 1 + 2
€6,20 – €67,40Ancient Snow Shan Shoung Pu Erh Tea 1+2 is a ripened “hei cha” from ancient tea trees in Vietnam’s northernmost province, Ha Giang. Only the young buds, each with two leaves attached to it, are picked for this tea – of course, by hand. Like all teas from our producer partner in Ha Giang, the processing of their pu erh teas is rooted in ancient local artisan traditions. This, along with a genuine passion for producing tea, leads to a level of picking and processing excellence that is about unprecedented in the industry.
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Ancient Snow Shan Tra Pai Hao Tea
€7,40 – €44,90Ancient Artisan Snow Shan Tra Pai Hao Tea is a Vietnamese black tea specialty yielded from leaves of the ancient “Thuyet Shan” (= “Snow High Mountain”) tea trees. The Thuyet Shan tea tree is native the central Vietnamese province of Ha Giang. There, at altitudes of 1400+ meters, the biodiverse and health and environment-friendly operated tea plantation of our producer partner for Vietnamese Snow Shan teas is located. The “arguably best teas in the world” convince with meticulously realized picking standard (here: 1+1) and highly diligent processing. Tra Pai Hao Black Tea combines the deep sweetness, cocoa notes and malty character of black Yunnan tea with the benefits of unparalleled quality processing and the special features of the Thuyet Shan tea tree.
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Ancient Snow Shan Trang White Moonlight Tea
€8,40 – €74,90Ancient Snow Shan Trang White Moonlight Tea (pure buds, spring picking) from 100+ years-old Tuyet Shan (“Snow High Mountain”) tea trees in north Vietnam. Our local producer partner’s tea garden, located at altitudes of 1400+ meters in the Tai Con Linh mountain range in Ha Giang province, follows close-to-nature cultivation principles. This way, the tea trees benefit from the input and the regulating mechanisms of a natural, biodiverse environment. A pronounced almond note on the gum combines with a sweetness that is unusually intense for a white tea to a taste of finest marzipan.
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Ancient Snow Shan White Silver Needle Tea
€8,40 – €51,90Ancient Snow Shan White Silver Needle Tea (pure buds, spring picking) from ancient Thuyet Shan (“Snow High Mountain”) tea trees in Vietnam. Ancient Snow Shan White silver needle tea (pure buds, spring picking) from ancient Thuyet Shan (“Snow High Mountain”) tea trees in Vietnam. Our local producer partner’s tea plantation, located at altitudes of 1400+ meters in Ha Giang province, is operated according to biodiverse and health and environment-friendly cultivation principles. All Snow Shan teas are excelling both in picking and processing standards.
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Ancient Tree Moonlight White Tea
€8,40 – €27,90Ancient Tree White Moonlight Tea – rare white tea specialty from Yunnan, China. Leaves and buds harvested with 1+1 picking standard during full moon in March/April each year from over 400 years old Yunnan tea trees, processed according to a centuries-old family tradition. Tastewise, White Moonlight Tea combines the the characteristics of Bai Mu Dan / White Peony teas with the typical richness and depth of wild and/or biodiversely cultivated teas.
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Ancient Tree White Moonlight Buds
€7,90 – €27,40Ancient Tree White Moonlight Buds is a rare and highly distinctive tea specialty from Yunnan, China. It is the pure buds, handpicked during March and April from ancient Yunnan tea trees and processed according to a secret method passed on from one generation to another in the producer’s family since hundreds of years. Regarding taste, White Moonlight Buds Tea combines the elegance of a White Silver Needle tea with the rich and depth of teas yielded from ancient wild tea trees.
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Artisan High Mountain Bi Luo Chun Green Tea
€7,20 – €24,90Artisan High Mountain Bi Luo Chun (“Green Spring Snail”) Green Tea, a classic Top-3 position among the “Ten Great Teas of China”, from health and environment-friendly and biodiversified cultivation of more than 200 years old tea trees in around 2000 m altitude on Wu Liang Mountain in the Chinese province of Yunnan.
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Bolaven Plateau Arbor Green Tea
€7,40 – €23,90Bolaven Silver Cloud is a white silver needle tea (picking standard: pure buds) from south Laos. The seed-raised, up to over 70 years old tea trees grow in a semi-wild, biodiverse tea garden near Phonsavan on Bolaven-Plateau. The processing to a true artisan tea is mainly done by hand. At this, the light roasting that is rather untypical for white teas distincts Röstung Bolaven Silver Cloud both from Fuding white “silver needle” teas and from Yunnan “White Moonlight Buds” – also in taste!
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Bolaven Silver Cloud Sticky Rice White Tea
€10,90 – €36,90Bolaven Silver Cloud Sticky Rice White Tea is a white silver needle tea scented with the Southeast Asian “sticky rice” herb. The basis tea grows in the fertile volcanic soil of a semi-wild, biodiverse tea garden in Paksong, Bolaven Plateau, south Laos. The sticky rice herb, “Nuo Mi Xiang Nen Ye”, is for example also used to scent tea leaves in Yunnan and north Thailand. The combination of the white tea buds’s taste and the aroma donor’s flavor, characterized by spicy notes, is about just as pleasant as it is unique.
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Bolaven Silver Cloud White Silver Needle Tea
€10,90 – €36,90Bolaven Silver Cloud is a white silver needle tea (picking standard: pure buds) from south Laos. The seed-raised, up to over 70 years old tea trees grow in a semi-wild, biodiverse tea garden near Phonsavan on Bolaven-Plateau. The processing to a true artisan tea is mainly done by hand. At this, the light roasting that is rather untypical for white teas distincts Röstung Bolaven Silver Cloud both from Fuding white “silver needle” teas and from Yunnan “White Moonlight Buds” – also in taste!
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Junshan Yinzhen Yellow Tea (Junshan Island)
€15,40 – €54,90Authentic Junshan Yinzhen Yellow Tea is probably the rarest of all classic Chinese teas. In fact, there are hardly any producers in China today who still master the high art of processing yellow tea, which is considered the most complex of the 6 Chinese tea processing categories. However, Siam Tea Shop makes no compromises even with this precious and hard-to-get Chinese tea specialty, offering its customers the original from the ancient tea garden on Junshan island.
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Kinnari Tea, Laos – 6 Teas Sample Set
€23,90 – €49,90All 6 Kinnari teas in one sample set. Optionally 6 x 10g or 6 x 25g of thea 6 teas of our Kinnari/Laos line, from tea trees in Xiengkhouang and Bolaven Plateau, Laos, cultivated in their natural, biodiverse environment :
- Xiengkhouang Golden Flame – black tea (pure buds)
- Xiengkhouang White Moonlight – white tea (1+1)
- Xiengkhouang Honey Hill – sheng pu erh tea (1+1)
- Bolaven Plateau Green – green tea (1+1)
- Bolaven Silver Cloud – white silver needle tea (pure buds)
- Bolaven “Sticky Rice” Silver Cloud – white silver needle tea, naturally scented with “sticky rice” herb
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Latumoni Royal Tippy Assam First Flush Black Tea
€7,40 – €23,90Latumoni is the name of a small, family-run tea garden in Assam, northeast India. Here, tea is still grown in a close-to-nature way and without industrial aids. Our Latumoni Royal Tippy Assam First Flush Black Tea offers a fullbodied taste with pronounced chocolate and coffee notes embedded in spicy sweetness, from the estate’s spring picking. Close-to-nature cultivatiion, handpicking and traditional processing make this Assam black tea a true artisan tea.
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