Ya'an Empress Orchid

Tea from Mengding Mountain, a true high-mountain variety, is harvested before Qingming when its essence is richest. Orchid-scented tea, a millennia-old craft, is rare due to the dedication required. Our cooperative factory, located on Mengding Mountain with its own orchid garden within a 3-hour journey, ensures the flowers' freshness. To fully infuse the tea with orchid fragrance, up to four times the weight of tea in orchids is used, blending tea and fresh orchids in a warm cellar until the scent is fully absorbed, then removing wilted flowers. The natural orchid aroma, unmatched by synthetic fragrances, gives low-grade teas a fleeting scent, unlike our tea, which captures the orchid's delicate, vibrant elegance—a rare taste of life's exquisite pleasures.