"China Tea" used to be the only brand of Pu'er in Yunnan Province, including the three major Pu'er tea factories, and has a pivotal position in the history of modern tea in China. Menghai Tea Factory and Xiaguan Tea Factory were later successively restructured and privatized, and the state-owned Kunming Tea Factory, which has been subordinate to Yunnan China Tea, went bankrupt, resulting in insufficient production capacity, and the "China Tea" trademark was widely authorized to other tea factories to use, becoming a flood of OEM brands, and the quality of the products was uneven, which had a great negative impact on Pu'er tea and the "China Tea" brand. Subsequently, Yunnan China Tea was merged into COFCO at the end of 2007, and the overall quality has rebounded significantly.
At present, there are two main sources of Pu'er tea produced by "China Tea", and the relatively popular products are produced by the six major tea mountain tea industries. The six major tea mountain tea industry is a provincial key leading enterprise of agricultural industrialization in Yunnan Province, with 16,200 acres of raw material base and standardized tea factory in Menghai County, with an annual production capacity of 50,000 tons. The main products are Liuxiang, China Tea Ruyi, China Tea Xianghe series, etc., and the prices are below 100 yuan. In addition, there are also classic Yunnan Tuo tea and Qizi cake tea that tea lovers are more familiar with.
The core product of the original Kunming Tea Factory is Pu'er ripe bricks, its main product 7581 is the benchmark of cooked brick tea, the materials are not exquisite, the fermentation is heavy, the taste pursues sweetness, sweetness, mellow taste, 90s in Taiwan set off a boom, the price is affordable, now the Kunming Tea Factory produced in 2017 batch of 250 grams of price 88 yuan. In addition, the production positioning of Kunming Tea Factory is relatively high. China Tea "India" grade tea overseas Chinese sales round tea is a representative product of Pu'er old tea, produced by the state-owned Menghai Tea Factory, called by the trademark color, divided into "red seal", "blue seal", "green seal", "yellow seal", etc., in recent years, "China Tea" began to reproduce the production, the price of red seal is 658 yuan, the price of blue seal and green seal is around 500 yuan, in 2016, "China Tea" also reproduced another Pu'er old tea "Baba green cake", but the year is still relatively new, need to be stored for a long time.
Mid-term tea generally refers to its aging time between 3-7 years, does not require precision, "middle tea" large-leaf green cake mid-term tea produced in 2006, the biggest feature of the taste is soft and sweet, after aging, the sweet aftertaste is rapid and strong, the tea gas is pure and refreshing, the aftertaste is sweet and powerful, and the price of each cake is 438 yuan. The small production area of the mountain tea "Chinese tea" is also produced, such as Iceland mountain green cake, Yiwu Zhengshan collection, Bangdong arbor, Jingmai arbor, curved bow arbor, etc., Iceland mountain green cake price of 518 yuan, the soup color is golden, the taste is gradually thickened, the aftertaste is good, it is a good choice to experience mountain tea.