The Pu-erh Brokers of Yunnan Province

 The Pu-erh Brokers of Yunnan Province

Pu-erh is the Helen of Troy of tea that gets aged like whiskey, dosed like drugs, and coveted by millionaires. And it only comes from this one mountainous corner of China

By Max Falkowitz January 23, 2017
https://www.saveur.com/pu-erh-chinese-tea/

ALL ABOUT PUERH TEA

Pu’Erh is a black tea due to its rich fermentation (it’s technically classified as dark black tea), which has been produced in the rich lands of Yunnan in China for centuries. Fortunes have been made and lost on Pu’Erh. In fact in 1997 (before the current economic situation), a Malaysian businessman is reported to have paid USD38,400 for 100g of 60 year old Pu’Erh tea in Guangzhou. That made it more expensive than gold at the time!

The 2007 Pu erh Tea Market Crash: The Boom And Bust Revisited

For China’s Pu erh tea market, the Spring of 2007 was more like a cold hard winter with unexpected blizzards. After an acute rise, Pu erh price dropped shockingly fast, followed by a long recession. The Pu erh craze that lasted a few years came to an abrupt end.

Now 10 years later, most of us have forgotten or not experienced what happened back then. Let’s take a look back at this chaotic period of time.

The Pu erh Market Crash of Spring 2007

Guangzhou’s Fangcun wholesale tea market was by far the biggest tea market in China. The majority of the pu erh tea trading was done there by 2007. From 2006 to Spring 2007, traders witnessed the drastic change of pu erh tea price.

We used to need 3 buckets of water to make tea for customers to taste, but suddenly it was less than half of a bucket. A tea trader in Pu'er city

The Boom

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