Yunnan Purple Buds is a black tea made from a rare purple leaf tea cultivar called Zi Juan, or “Purple Beauty.” Zi Juan produces beautiful reddish-purple leaves that are high in anthocyanins—a family of red and blue polyphenols found in fruits like blueberries, pomegranates, grapes, and butterfly pea flowers.

In recent years, Purple Beauty tea has become popular in China as a unique source of these colorful antioxidant plant pigments, tea catechins, and dynamic aroma.

Our Purple Buds are grown in a lush and biodiverse mountainous region of Yunnan’s Wa Shan territory bordering Burma, at a certified organic tea farm we’ve partnered with since 2013. Wa Shan is a famous tea mountain with ancient roots, named after the Wa ethnic tribe who have farmed tea in this region for over a thousand years.

This tea has a stylish appearance with a wild aroma and elegant tannin structure.