Puerh Tea: China's Next Hot Commodity? [via time.com]
Puerh tea has gotten a lot of press recently, in recent years prices have skyrocketed as the Western world learns of this curious tea, this time Puerh made it to Time.com:
Puer Tea: China’s Next Hot Commodity?
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1918419,00.html
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Tony Gebely
Tony is co-owner of Chicago Tea Garden and tweets as @WorldofTea. He has been a tea drinker for nearly ten years and has traveled to tea producing regions throughout Asia.
Wonderful to see this publicity for Pu-erh. Nothing could be finer. However, I think it’s a bit of impropriety for them to call it a “commodity.” In the tea world, that would likely imply a Pu-erh that wasn’t very good quality. –Spirituality of Tea