Making PuErh Tea - The Traditional Way

Join us 1,500 metres up in the wild forests of Yunnan province – the birthplace of tea - as we go in search of good pu’erh.

Watch what it takes to make artisan, raw pu’erh tea from an ancient tea tree.

See how quality pu’erh tea is made, sorted and moulded by hand using the traditional techniques 1,000s of years old.

Learn what goes into the highest quality pu’erh. See the most important quality marker of pu’erh tea.

[chadczternastek]

Growing up in the late 70's, thru the 80's, air raid drills at school train us to go under the desk, cover our heads, fearing Communism we were steered to think China is an adversary. At 50 now, I've read a lot of China and my tea hobby, i see nothing but humble, friendly, hard working, genuine good people. I can watch these videos all day. There would be nothing more i would love to do than visit China. I would love to throw away my cell phone, cancel my decade of plans and live and learn the ways and culture of the Chinese. Be great where your biggest worry is how much it's gonna rain or not rain. No bills (maybe i would consider running up a tea tab, but I'll work it off).

Thanks for these. I know they were 7 years ago, but i like this channel to pick up the stuff to make a better relaxing way of life. Since i tossed the coffee cups out and replaced them with little tea cups my life has many little pros. Less anxiety. Better confidence, better understanding myslef. I can go on and on.

[wreagfe]

The man who looks 5 years younger, 5 years later! Well done Don. 👍🏻

[好茶先生阿温]

I'm from here, thank you so much for promoting our hometown.

[FilipeARS]

I'm not saying this vid is badly produce, but, man, you really increased the quality of your productions. Congratulations.

[sasuke]

This is such an underrated channel, the work you're doing is absolutely incredible and serves more recognition...I'm sure you'll get there eventually :)

[googup]

Oh my god I cracked up as soon as the music played xD As a Thai, I immediately realized it was a Thai folk song from Northeastern Thailand. I must admit I didn't quite expect it. Anyway, been following your channel for a while. Please keep up the good work!

[wenwendream]

I've been drinking pu er tea for years and learned a lot from this video~ it certainly makes me want to go to Yunnan again and explore the forest where the 1000-year-old pu'er trees stand...

[Cloudcrown]

I learned about Yunnan and pu er tea from reading "The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane" by Lisa See. That book made me use so much of my imagination lol I'd love to try pu er one day!

[rubberpants]

there are documentaries and then there are documentaries. awesome work.

[Templegoddess]

Thank you Don and Celine, for all the work you do, all the tea guidance and mastering you give us, and for sharing these amazing videos, I have found so much new respect for tea and the amazing people who produce it. Huge props to that lady sorting the leaves, so much skill and patience,  and to all the pickers!

[wanderingteaapprentice]

Thank you, this was excellent to watch!

[ts]

This was fantastic! For some reason I've always been a little....intimidated I guess to try PuErh tea. Thank you for showing this, I love when companies show where they get their teas and since I can see that it is all done by hand, it makes me a little less apprehensive to try the PuErh.

[oczarkowana]

Jingmai mountain is absolutely beautiful area and dreamland for tea lovers! I'll have to visit it again !

[kingyeayea]

This stuff jus turned up at my jungle jims store and I am buying it by the masses ! So good!!

[consideringorthodoxy]

This was an amazing documentary, kudos.

[KeithFlint]

Thank you for making for us this magnificent tea!

[a_za_may_bog]

It's extremely cool and useful kind of content! Thank you very much!

[lewlewlewlewlewlewlewlewlew]

Beautiful to hear about the permaculture that creates this tea

[FrancesPauli]

More videos like this! I would so watch a travel TV series filmed this way, The World of Tea <3

[yaninyunus]

It is a documentary about Yunnan, China but the music that starts at 00:30 is in Thai haha