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We manufacture the most valuable tea on the planet - tea from the old trees, or 古树茶 "gu shu cha", how it's called in Chinese.   

Value of this tea is mostly recognized in Chinese tea culture, but it becomes more and more known also in Western world. 

Our principles of fully natural tea production

Wild sourcing

Natural habitat

Wild sourcing

Material for our tea we take only from the wild tea forests, not from the plantations. We have 15 hectares or our own jungle land, with abandoned old tea trees on it. Some of them many years ago (from 80 to 400) was planted, some just grow in the wild.

No pesticides

Natural habitat

Wild sourcing

We don't use any chemical fertilizers or pesticides. We trim the grass around tea trees only by hand.

Natural habitat

Natural habitat

Careful selection

Area of tea forests and production is located near a large National park, in Maetaeng County, Banlao village. One of the cleanest regions of Thailand, without any industrial activity in the region.

Careful selection

Hand-made production

Careful selection

Tea leaves are handpicked by local village settlers. Because before in our village Banlao was only miang, traditional fermented tea production, we educate locals about the right technology of harvesting the leaves for high quality tea (one leaf one bud, or two leaf one bud depending of the type of tea)

Hand-made production

Hand-made production

Hand-made production

All the steps of tea processing is fully manual (for sheng puer and white tea) or mostly manual (for the other types of tea)

Expertise

Hand-made production

Hand-made production

We do care about the quality of our tea, so we use all our more than 15 years of experience in tea culture and bring the best specialists to the factory. Co-founder of the project, Sergey Shevelev, spent 10 years in China learning about tea, and wrote the book Geography of Chinese tea. 

Why tea from the old trees is so special?

No pesticides or any other chemical fertilizers

No pesticides or any other chemical fertilizers

No pesticides or any other chemical fertilizers

The tea trees located inside the deep jungles, the area around is completely free from any agricultural activities, - no pesticides, no herbicides, no insecticides or any other chemical fertilizers. 


Actually, because tea is endemic tree of the region, it don't need to be fertilized, when grow in the wild. 

Rich soil & extensive root system

No pesticides or any other chemical fertilizers

No pesticides or any other chemical fertilizers

Wild jungle land is more rich in minerals and micro elements, so the tea from such lands is much more beneficial for the health. 


Old big tea tree has larger root system, so it grabs much more minerals from the soil. 


Thus, tea has profound organoleptic qualities such as taste and aroma of this tea, same as effects which is something absolutely different from anything, you tried before.

Tea is also can be an investment

No pesticides or any other chemical fertilizers

Tea is also can be an investment

We produce pu-erh as well  sun-dried white and red tea from the leaves gathered from these trees. This  tea can be specially aged and stored for a long time, becoming better and better during aging, same as good wine. I


t's called in Chinese "lao cha, 老茶”. Because amount of supply is really limited, but more and more people interested to drink and buy such special tea, price for high quality tea from the old trees is all the time growing. 

How do we care about our jungle tea tree forest?

  • We just don't touch it. Sometimes remove fallen trees, that's it. 


  • Even though we are dealing with wild tea trees, they require a certain amount of care. We cut weeds near tea trees only by hand without using any chemicals to remove them. 


  • We also trim the trees a little bit to stimulate leaves growth, and make the easier access for the harvesting. 


  • We don't use any commercial fertilizers for the tea trees, but we plow the soil around them to provide the trees with extra oxygen and improve the absorption of trace elements from the soil. 


  • Sometimes, if necessary, we use only organic fertilizer before the rainy season for additional nutrition for the trees.

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