Pu-erh Tea

PU-ERH is completely fermented, which gives it both its dark color its flavor. This requires five operations wilting, which softens the leaves by drying them, rolling, which consists of rolling the leaves lengthwise to release the essential oils necessary for fermentation, sifting to separate the leaves according to size, fermentation, which in itself is in fact a series of chemical reactions which tranform the tea and give it its characteristic flavor, and lastly desiccation, which interrupts the fermentation process by drying the leaves at high temperatures.