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Zi Juan Purple Beauty. Zi Juan Purple Beauty is a complex ‘Purple Beauty’ varietal green tea from the Jingmai Mountain area of Yunnan. It produces a vegetal liquor that is floral, nutty and creamy. Sweet and tangy notes are balanced by a hint of metallic astringency on the aftertaste.
- Dian Hong Zi Juan Purple Beauty | Chinese Black Tea | Curious Tea
Dian Hong Zi Juan Purple Beauty is a fruity ‘Purple Beauty’...
- Dian Hong Zi Juan Purple Beauty | Chinese Black Tea | Curious Tea
An expertly fermented black tea made from the famous "Purple Beauty" Zi Juan 紫娟 varietal. Subtle appearance with an expansive taste! Hints of flo... View full details
- Purple Tea Is Not A Tea Category
- 2 Types of Purple Tea
- Zi Ya
- Zi Juan
- Health Benefits of Purple Tea
We all know about green tea and black tea, but is purple tea a new type of tea category? The answer is: no. Teas are classified based on the processing method applied. The term ‘purple tea’ refers to a tea cultivar, which can be processed in any type of tea such as green, black, oolong or pu erh.
What many don’t know is that there are two types of purple tea in terms of raw leaves: one is Zi Ya (紫芽), and the other is Zi Juan (紫娟). We’ll discuss the differences below.
Zi Ya literally means ‘purple bud’. They are naturally mutated in the wild of Yunnan. It usually growing in the areas with high altitude and strong sun exposure, such as Menghai, Yiwu and Lincang. Generally, the bud and the first three leaves of Zi Ya are purple, the rest of the leaves are dark green. Zi Ya can be produced into raw and ripe Pu erh ...
In 1985, researchers of Yunnan Tea Research Institute found one unusual tea tree in a huge tea plantation. It had purple buds, leaves and stems. Compare to Zi Ya, its fresh leaves were smaller and thicker, the purple colour was darker and with a hint of green, more like violet. Its infusion is purple-ish too, with a thinner and stronger flavour tha...
The most effective components of both purple tea are anthocyanins. It’s said that the amount of anthocyanins in purple tea is 50-100 times higher than green bud tea. As one kind of polyphenols, anthocyanins are great antioxidants. They are used for preventing cardiovascular and neurological diseases, circulatory disorders, eye problems and inflamma...
Called Juan Zi, Zi Cha, or Zi Ya, or purple teas in English, these teas are rare and especially prized for their properties and their benefits, but also and above all have a rich aroma and excellent faculties to maturation which istinguish them from ordinary puerh.
This Zi Juan variety certainly makes a delicious tea when fermented and I recommend it hig... One of my favourite teas of the year - a ripe PuErh like no other.
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Combination of Jing Gu Yue Guang Bai and Zi Juan (white tea made of purple varietal leaf) makes well balanced taste of flowery-fruity notes of YGB combined with herbal notes of Zi Juan.
Dian Hong Zi Juan Purple Beauty is a fruity ‘Purple Beauty’ varietal Yunnan Red tea from Jingmai Mountain. Dark twisted leaves produce an amber liquor with a light fruity aroma. The fresh and light character has notes of honey, prunes and apricots with a smooth, stony aftertaste.
