Our best black tea is a scintillating composition of Pure buds that are hand harvested from Yunnan’s ancient tea trees. Incorporating delicate processing and even fermentation to present a lovely leaf style tea that yields a smooth, sugary flavor. Experienced tea drinkers will note nuances of baked sweet yams and raisins. When brewed, Golden Needle Organic Black Tea has a very beautiful red color with spicy, floral qualities.

This magical hand picked, handmade black tea is from the protected Jing Mai ancient tea forest of Yunnan, China. Many of the tea trees are over 1300 years old and the forest is rich in bio-diversity and ecological balance. The ancient tea trees are the backbone of local minority Dai and Bulang villages’ economies. This is a world-renowned black tea imparting all the mysteries of the oldest tea-growing region in the world. In China, Golden Needle Organic Black Tea is reputed to relieve arthritis and is naturally very low in caffeine. The Jing Mai mountain villages are home to many centenarians, attesting to the health benefits of these leaves.

Golden Needle Tea, the most superb black tea, hails from Wu Yi Mountains of the Fujian province in China, whereas the province is one of its most prolific in teas. This region accounts for one-fifth of China's total tea output. And the high quality of its teas keeps them in high demand. This region's exports of tea used to be accounted for a quarter of the country's total. Fujian teas benefits from an excellent climate, combining mild temperatures, abundant rainfall and mountainous terrain. This tea shapes like shiny golden needles with one leaf and one bud. It has a long history of cultivating tea over one-thousand years and has been stepping in to a organic category