Thailand - Wild Purple Tea Pu Er Sheng

Tea produced in a small plantation at about 1,200m above sea level, where tea trees have replaced poppy plants since the 1970s. The plantation is subsidized by the Thai state to cover the costs of organic certification of its teas. This particular tea is produced after the owner of the plantation walks several hours in the jungle nearby the village and brings back fresh leaves from completely wild purple tea trees, some of them more than a hundred year old and several metres high.