Changning Black Tea

Changning Black Tea

Changning Black Tea is a protected geographical indication product.

Changning Black Tea is a certified geographical indication trademark.

　　Changning Black Tea features plump, sturdy leaves with a glossy, dark color and visible golden tips. It emits a rich chestnut-like aroma, has a tender, even, and thick leaf base, delivers a deliciously mellow taste, and presents a bright crimson liquor with a sweet, lingering aftertaste. Changning Black Tea has been awarded a National Geographical Indication Certification trademark.

　　Changning Black Tea is produced in Changning, a renowned black tea-producing region in Yunnan Province — known as the “Millennium Tea Township.” The tea is made from aged tea leaves sourced from high-altitude, pollution-free, organic ecological tea gardens registered as export product bases. The traditional picking process used by ancient tea masters is followed, selecting only aged tea leaves to be processed using the classic Gongfu black tea method.

　　Changning Black Tea features plump, sturdy leaves with a glossy, dark color and visible golden tips. It emits a rich chestnut-like aroma, has a tender, even, and thick leaf base, delivers a deliciously mellow taste, and presents a bright crimson liquor with a sweet, lingering aftertaste. Regular consumption of Changning Black Tea is believed to help clear heat and toxins, warm and nourish the stomach, improve liver and eye health, soften blood vessels, and promote beauty and skin health.

　　In 2013, the “Changning Black Tea” trademark was recognized by the Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce as a China National Geographical Indication Certification trademark.

　　Changning Black Tea

　　The administrative regions of ten townships in Changning County, Yunnan Province: Tianyuan Town, Mangshui Town, Datianba Township, Kejie Town, Gengga Township, Mengtong Town, Wenquan Township, Jifei Township, Wengdu Township, and Goujie Township.

　　Letter on Defining the Protection Scope of Changning Black Tea as a Geographical Indication Product, issued by the People’s Government of Changning County (Chang Zheng Han [2013] No. 42)

　　Draft of Yunnan Provincial Local Standard: “Changning Black Tea”