The most expensive tea in the world, more than 30 times the price of gold

Tea from Wuyi Mountains region, Fujian Province, China this may be regarded as the world's most expensive tea. It costs even more than 30 times the price of gold.


Tea was originated it grows in bushes early in the Da Hong Pao Wuyi Mountains. Da Hong Pao tea is legendary.

"This tea seems more suited to a beggar, but the price is fit for an emperor and have the heart of Buddha," said Xiao Hui, tea maker in Wuyishan, the city by the river misty in Fujian, southern China as reported by the BBC on Monday (2/5 / 2016).

In 2002, a wealthy buyer to pay 180,000 yuan or equivalent to Rp 365.7 million - to buy only 20 grams lengedaris Da Hong Pao tea.

The price was very surprising, even for a country with a culture that assesses drinking tea as an art form for about 1,500 years (and had tea classification system that makes French wines seem simple).

The original Da Hong Pao not only for gold. It costs more than 30 times the price of gold, nearly 1,400 US dollars per one gram or equivalent to Rp 18.4 million and more than 10,000 dollars per carafe. Da Hong Pao is one of the world's most expensive tea.

Xiao Hui shows the physical look of tea. Tea leaves was dark, tangled, and the unfinished processed from the tea gardens owned by his family in Wuyishan.

Xiao and his family, the tea for several generations, they went to the mountains each spring to invoke the god of tea, Lu Yu, to bring new seeds.

In every store in Wuyishan have a table set for tea tasting as a ritual gong fu cha (tea kung fu) - Chinese version of the tea ceremony in Japan. The shelves are filled with a diverse selection of tea leaves.

Although these types of old and antique can be sold at a price which is unusually high, Da Hong Pao tea whose quality can rationally valued around 100 per kilo, or about USD 1.3 million in Wuyishan.

"The original Da Hong Pao is very expensive because it is very difficult to find the original tea trees are left," said Wu Xiangning local tea experts. "And the old-fashioned kind that is very precious, almost priceless."

Source: kompasnews