Ever heard that tea is for Royals? One taste of this tea and you will know why!! For those who eat dessert first. Plum candy sweet fragrance in a cup. Light in body. No astringency. Goes down too easy.

Zi Juan (ROYAL purple robe) is a relatively new cultivar on the market that is most often made into a green tea, but you cannot pass up on this black tea version. Purple leaves and buds are natural mutations in tea plants that happen in various tea growing regions. The high levels of anthocyanin in the leaf give it its purple color. Since the late 1980’s the Purple Beauty cultivar has been propagated by the Menghai Research Center and through further cultivation is now being more widely planted, but the tea is still scarcely available in the US. From the Menghai region of Yunnan. It’s a 2 leaf and bud pluck and grown at an approximate elevation of 3,000 feet and grown organically. An excellent Royal tea!