Founded in 1953 and located in Dongping Town, Anhua, Hunan Province, China Tea Hunan Anhua No. 1 Tea Factory was formerly known as Xinglongmao Tea Shop in Youzhou, Anhua, which was founded in 1902. Anhua Tea Factory is not only the birthplace of Anhua black tea and the birthplace of the famous Hunan black tea, but also the first large-scale state-owned tea factory in Hunan Province after the founding of the People's Republic of China, which was acquired as a member of COFCO in 2012 and merged into Hunan China Tea in 2015. The company has a complete black tea processing production line, as well as advanced black tea production and processing technology and equipment, with an annual production capacity of 2,000 tons, and has completed the capital injection and is expanding, which will have an annual production capacity of 5,000 tons of dark tea products, with an annual output value of 300 million yuan.
Centennial Mucang Black Tea is a dark tea brand created by China Tea Hunan Anhua No. 1 Tea Factory. The brand name comes from the century-old tea warehouse, which adopts a three-storey fully overhead building structure, all made of pine wood, with high temperature and humidity stability, and good air permeability, forming an excellent microbial colony environment, which is conducive to the cellar aging of black tea. In addition, Anhua Tea Factory also adopts the unique aging process of "one warehouse and two storages", which stores the black hair tea in the tea warehouse for a period of natural aging, and then processes it into a finished product and then puts it into the warehouse for aging, forming the unique quality of black tea wood warehouse black tea fungus fragrance.
Anhua black tea is a post-fermented tea, which has the quality characteristics of getting older and more fragrant. The aged tea of the hundred-year-old wooden warehouse is mainly Jinhua Fu brick tea, and the 3-year-old Jinhua Fu brick tea is lush on the brick surface, orange-red, mellow and sweet, and the fungus flower fragrance is rich and long-lasting, and the 1 kg package is only 108 yuan, which is full of cost performance. The Tianjian tea of the century-old wooden warehouse is borrowed from the production method of oolong tea, adding the charcoal roasting process to extract alcohol, the aroma is rich, the sweetness is strong, and there is a bit of the charm of rock tea, and the tea lovers who are used to drinking oolong tea may wish to give it a try, and the price of 230g canned is only 49 yuan. Qianliang tea and flower brick black brick tea are closer to traditional tea in taste, with a mellow and astringent taste, and obvious shengjin, and newcomers can start to drink in small sizes. The year seal series of 100 taels of tea two pieces of 336g is priced at 49 yuan; Jingyan series light fermented black brick tea 400g is priced at 80 yuan.