'Red' Tea

I came upon son Ten Ren Pu-erh in foil sealed teabags and liked what I was drinking.

Then I started looking around and am in the process of figuring out wet vs dry and health benefits vs cheap product w/ just the name, etc, etc.

What _this_ post is about is teas (like the one mentioned at th beginning) which produce a red liquor, and accompanying flavor.

Does this fall into a certain type of category as green/black do? (Not being pu-erh specific).

TBerk

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Red tea seems to be a generic term for a fully oxidised tea - not to be confused with that South African stuff. In the west we call them black teas, after the leaf colour - in China they are named for the colour of the infusion. (The Dao of Tea at

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seems to know about this and Pu'er too, though their site's a bit thin)

howlerman

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