Shan Tuyet
Ancient high-mountain Vietnamese tea — thick, downy buds with a sweet, mineral, wild character.
Shan Tuyet ("snow shan") is a large-leaf Vietnamese tea from ancient trees, many of them centuries old, growing wild and semi-wild above 1,200m in the cloud-wrapped mountains of northern Vietnam (Ha Giang, Yen Bai, Son La). Some groves are recognised as Vietnamese heritage trees.
The young leaves and buds are thick and heavily coated in white down — the 'snow' of the name. Grown with huge day-night temperature swings and almost no intervention, the leaf is exceptionally rich in polyphenols, catechins and L-theanine, giving a sweet, mineral, honeyed cup with a distinctly wild character. It is made as green, white and black tea and is Vietnam's flagship specialty leaf.
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- Vietnam (Ha Giang, Yen Bai, Son La highlands)
Origins where Shan Tuyet grows
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