YunTai Mountain Bitter Tea

YunTai Mountain Bitter Tea

　　  YunTai Mountain Bitter Tea is a specialty of Shibing County in Qiandongnan Prefecture, Guizhou Province. The tea leaves from YunTai Mountain in Shibing are light green and bright in color. Upon tasting, they feel moist with a slight bitterness at first, yet leave a sweet, fragrant, and lingering aftertaste that brings a refreshing and comfortable sensation.

　　  YunTai Mountain Bitter Tea is primarily grown on the slopes within hundreds of square kilometers around YunTai Mountain in Shibing County. The water extract content of bitter tea exceeds 58%, and it is rich in various trace elements essential to the human body. The tea leaves are light green and bright, feel moist when sipped, offer a slight bitterness initially, then reveal a sweet, fragrant, and long-lasting aftertaste that leaves one feeling refreshed and cool.

　　  Shibing Bitter Tea grows in the wild with little human intervention. Although the tea trees are often cut back, they regenerate vigorously, maintaining an almost inexhaustible supply. Rough estimates suggest the annual social yield of bitter tea reaches around 50 tons. In the YunTai Mountain area, bitter tea is commonly roasted by locals with both leaves and stems intact. This type of tea has unique benefits such as stabilizing blood pressure, dispelling wind and clearing heat, promoting saliva and quenching thirst, relieving irritability and summer heat, benefiting the spleen and stomach, and stimulating appetite, making it particularly suitable for people with high blood pressure.