Curly Spring Green Tea (Pi Lo Chun)

WHAT IT IS This tea consists of the youngest tea leaves picked in early spring, only a few days a year. Each leaf is carefully picked by hand, dried and coiled into a unique curled shape, for ease of storage and transportation. It is so delicate and tender that it takes some 15,000 tea shoots to produce just one kilogram of this tea.

FLAVOR NOTES Produced from the finest young tea shoots, Pi Lo Chun is characterized by a fresh, floral, slightly sweet taste. Because these tea bushes are planted near peach, plum or apricot trees, they also absorb the fragrance of their blossoms. This fragrance is locked in when the leaves are slightly pan-roasted.

• Improve overall health with a beverage filled with various healthy bioactive compounds
• Boost your brain function with a healthy combination of naturally occurring caffeine and L-theanine, an amino acid with anti-anxiety effects
• Give your body a gentle, stable source of energy
• Help your body lose unnecessary weight by gently increasing its metabolic rate
• Reduce the risk of cancer, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other diseases with this powerful source of free radical-fighting antioxidants
• Improve dental health with catechins – molecular compounds in green tea which have shown to fight bacteria and lower the risk of infection
• Lower the risk of Diabetes by improving insulin sensitivity and reducing blood sugar levels
• Maintain cardiovascular health by lowering cholesterol with antioxidants in green tea
• Lower your stress level by enjoying a healthy, tasty beverage

BACKGROUND Pi Lo Chun (sometimes written as Biluochun) green tea is one of the most highly regarded teas among Chinese tea experts. It ranked first among Chinese green teas in Cha Shuo, a 19^th Century tea encyclopedia.