A really rare specialty: an original Dong Ting Bi Luo Chun processed traditionally, wok by wok, a hundred percent handicraft, a tea of incomparably high quality. Different from the usual processing methods nowadays, less leaf material is processed at a time and the tea masters take more time for each step of the processing. The time needed is given to each step and that is why the production of this tea takes longer. The finished tea is then packed wok by wok - usually, the produced amount of tea of a whole day or even several days is mixed in order to attain a certain amount and to balance differences and little defects.

The plucked leaves come from different tea gardens on Dongshan peninsula, South-West of Suzhou, where tea bushes grow amidst fruit trees and other plants. The original cultivation site of Bi Luo Chun is called Dongting, which consists in the two peninsulae of Dongshan and Xishan.

A good Buddhist Tea (Chinese Focha), grown and processed on Taohuadao or Peach Flower Island. Focha originally comes from the neighbouring Island of Putuoshan. Processed in the style of Biluochun. The mountain of the same name on this island is one of the four sacred buddhist mountains and is dedicated to Guan Yin (Avalokiteshvara), hence the name Buddhist tea. Fo Cha is processed like Bi Luo Chun and sometimes also carries this name.

Top quality of a beautiful green tea in the style of a Bi Luo Chun. Ganlu literally means sweet dewdrop. Mengding, the summit of mount Mengshan, is probably the oldest cultivated area for tea, as opposed to wild tea. Ganlu and other teas are produced around this mountain in the district of Mingshan.

A typical Guzhang Maojian of good quality. It is a local green tea from Hunan province in southern China that is rather well known but nowadays difficult to find.

A very beautifully green tea produced as a Maojian, from the autonomous region of the She minority, in the south of the Zhejiang province.

Jinjian translates as gold medal, and it is thus named, because in 1915 it won a gold medal at the world exhibition - at a time when it was quite famous. Huiming is the name of a temple in the region where this tea grows and means benevolent light.

A beautiful Maojian from the region of the lake Dongtinghu in Hunan province. It comes from a relatively wildly kept tea-garden, where the tea bushes are grown from seeds; hence it is not from a uniform sub-variety.

A very beautiful green tea with the big, twisted leaf, typical for Taiwanese Bi Luo Chun (formerly known as Pi Lo Chun).

Taiwan Biluochun is being increasingly produced since the 1960s. The name refers to the Biluochun from Suzhou, China, as it is the model for this tea.

But contrary to the Chinese Bi Luo Chun, this tea is made from an Oolong-tea variety, which has much larger leaves. Taiwan Bi Luo Chun have an appearance similar to Bao Zhong, the open-leaved green Oolong from Taiwan. This tea is lacking the strong and full bodied taste of its Chinese counterpart, and it is very soft, sweet and shows little bitterness.