I came upon son Ten Ren Pu-erh in foil sealed teabags and liked what I
was drinking.

Then I started looking around and am in the process of figuring out wet
vs dry and health benefits vs cheap product w/ just the name, etc, etc.

What _this_ post is about is teas (like the one mentioned at th
beginning) which produce a red liquor, and accompanying flavor.

Does this fall into a certain type of category as green/black do? (Not
being pu-erh specific).


TBerk

Red tea seems to be a generic term for a fully oxidised tea - not to be
confused with that South African stuff. In the west we call them black teas,
after the leaf colour - in China they are named for the colour of the
infusion. (The Dao of Tea at http://www.daooftea.com/dt/teas/index.html
seems to know about this and Pu'er too, though their site's a bit thin)

howlerman

"T" > wrote in message
...
>
> I came upon son Ten Ren Pu-erh in foil sealed teabags and liked what I was
> drinking.
>
> Then I started looking around and am in the process of figuring out wet vs
> dry and health benefits vs cheap product w/ just the name, etc, etc.
>
> What _this_ post is about is teas (like the one mentioned at th beginning)
> which produce a red liquor, and accompanying flavor.
>
> Does this fall into a certain type of category as green/black do? (Not
> being pu-erh specific).
>
>
> TBerk

Red tea seems to be a generic term for a fully oxidised tea - not to be
confused with that South African stuff. In the west we call them black teas,
after the leaf colour - in China they are named for the colour of the
infusion. (The Dao of Tea at http://www.daooftea.com/dt/teas/index.html
seems to know about this and Pu'er too, though their site's a bit thin)

howlerman

"T" > wrote in message
...
>
> I came upon son Ten Ren Pu-erh in foil sealed teabags and liked what I was
> drinking.
>
> Then I started looking around and am in the process of figuring out wet vs
> dry and health benefits vs cheap product w/ just the name, etc, etc.
>
> What _this_ post is about is teas (like the one mentioned at th beginning)
> which produce a red liquor, and accompanying flavor.
>
> Does this fall into a certain type of category as green/black do? (Not
> being pu-erh specific).
>
>
> TBerk

"howlerman" > wrote in message >...
> Red tea seems to be a generic term for a fully oxidised tea - not to be
> confused with that South African stuff. In the west we call them black teas,
> after the leaf colour - in China they are named for the colour of the
> infusion. > howlerman

To confuse things a bit more, in some German sources they occasionally
call pu´er-teas as "red teas", but fully oxidised teas of Qimen and
Yunnan as black teas. And in Russian teabooks quite often they
categorize as "red teas" those which "we" know as wulong-teas or
"blue"/"blue-green" teas. Yugen.

"howlerman" > wrote in message >...
> Red tea seems to be a generic term for a fully oxidised tea - not to be
> confused with that South African stuff. In the west we call them black teas,
> after the leaf colour - in China they are named for the colour of the
> infusion. > howlerman

To confuse things a bit more, in some German sources they occasionally
call pu´er-teas as "red teas", but fully oxidised teas of Qimen and
Yunnan as black teas. And in Russian teabooks quite often they
categorize as "red teas" those which "we" know as wulong-teas or
"blue"/"blue-green" teas. Yugen.